Anonymous wrote:My daughter will start kindergarten next year. I’ve been disappointed in the lack of foreign language options in ES in MCPS but was interested to learn that French immersion is available at a school that’s pretty close to us geographically. (We’re zoned for East Silver Spring.)

Can anyone give me a sense of lottery odds? Is it a shot in the dark or are odds a bit better than that?

Also, if your kids have done this program, how did they adjust? My daughter doesn’t know any French. My husband and I have some serviceable French, kind of (used to be pretty decent but super rusty now!). My daughter went through a lot of changes in preschool, particularly with moves, so I’m worried about language immersion being a lot as she transitions to K. But at the same time she loves school and I have every reason to expect she’ll be a good student.

We’d also be interested in Spanish programs but they seem farther away.