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Anonymous wrote:I’m a world language teacher in FCPS. We have been told that language is no longer a reason that will be accepted for high school transfers.

But they are still accepting transfers for AP or IB.
Seems unfair to limit it to the closest school if the closest school doesn’t offer the student’s language that they already started in high school, considering that can affect getting into schools like UVA.

Starting a new language freshman year will have zero negative impact on college admissions.

How are they going to do this with Immersion kids? The kids started in K or 1st grade with the language and suddenly they can’t transfer to a school with that language? Ridiculous. By 9th grade, the kids and families have already committed 8-9 years to developing that language and suddenly they won’t be able to continue?

If the student hasn't learned the language well enough after 8 or 9 years of immersion to be able to continue that language online, then they probably are not learning it well.

iKR?

Like, why is there even in-person high school? They can do it all online. No diff.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a world language teacher in FCPS. We have been told that language is no longer a reason that will be accepted for high school transfers.

But they are still accepting transfers for AP or IB.
Seems unfair to limit it to the closest school if the closest school doesn’t offer the student’s language that they already started in high school, considering that can affect getting into schools like UVA.

Starting a new language freshman year will have zero negative impact on college admissions.

How are they going to do this with Immersion kids? The kids started in K or 1st grade with the language and suddenly they can’t transfer to a school with that language? Ridiculous. By 9th grade, the kids and families have already committed 8-9 years to developing that language and suddenly they won’t be able to continue?

If the student hasn't learned the language well enough after 8 or 9 years of immersion to be able to continue that language online, then they probably are not learning it well.

Kids who have been involved in immersion programs will have attended school for 8-9 years with the same groups of kids. Telling them to attend a HS with kids they don’t know and to take the language online is BS. Unless they explicitly tell parents that immersion participants will not be allowed to pupil place to the HS that their peers will be attending is not right.

A kid asking to move for a language they are starting as a freshman is a different story. They don’t have a history with the language and they have not been attending a different school then their peers since ES.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a world language teacher in FCPS. We have been told that language is no longer a reason that will be accepted for high school transfers.

But they are still accepting transfers for AP or IB.
Seems unfair to limit it to the closest school if the closest school doesn’t offer the student’s language that they already started in high school, considering that can affect getting into schools like UVA.

Starting a new language freshman year will have zero negative impact on college admissions.

How are they going to do this with Immersion kids? The kids started in K or 1st grade with the language and suddenly they can’t transfer to a school with that language? Ridiculous. By 9th grade, the kids and families have already committed 8-9 years to developing that language and suddenly they won’t be able to continue?

If the student hasn't learned the language well enough after 8 or 9 years of immersion to be able to continue that language online, then they probably are not learning it well.

This is a weird take. Not everyone is good at self studying for HS level and AP WL classes. It's a different skill entirely from being able to learn a language in class.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a world language teacher in FCPS. We have been told that language is no longer a reason that will be accepted for high school transfers.

But they are still accepting transfers for AP or IB.
Seems unfair to limit it to the closest school if the closest school doesn’t offer the student’s language that they already started in high school, considering that can affect getting into schools like UVA.

Starting a new language freshman year will have zero negative impact on college admissions.

How are they going to do this with Immersion kids? The kids started in K or 1st grade with the language and suddenly they can’t transfer to a school with that language? Ridiculous. By 9th grade, the kids and families have already committed 8-9 years to developing that language and suddenly they won’t be able to continue?

If the student hasn't learned the language well enough after 8 or 9 years of immersion to be able to continue that language online, then they probably are not learning it well.

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know how transfer renewal decisions are made? What if a kid has transferred to a high school as a freshman and then next year that school closed to transfers? Are rising sophomores grandfathered in or can they be told to go back to their neighborhood high school?

The policy is that students must reapply annually.

There must be space not only at the school, but also the specific grade.

If either the school or grade goes over capacity at any point, the student is supposed to return to their neighborhood high school.

Does FCPS ever enforce this transfer policy?

Hahahaha. Sure.

Anonymous wrote:The style of FCPS under Reid is maximum chaos and uncertainty accompanied by extreme timidity. She gets away with it because people like Robyn Lady are on the School Board who don’t care about kids and respond when pressed that kids are “resilient.”

Yep. In a nutshell.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a world language teacher in FCPS. We have been told that language is no longer a reason that will be accepted for high school transfers.

But they are still accepting transfers for AP or IB.
Seems unfair to limit it to the closest school if the closest school doesn’t offer the student’s language that they already started in high school, considering that can affect getting into schools like UVA.

Starting a new language freshman year will have zero negative impact on college admissions.

Mine’s a sophomore. We didn’t transfer freshman year because she wouldn’t have taken AP classes freshman year anyway. Now we are allowed to transfer for AP, but the only school offered does not have her WL.

Anonymous wrote:Anyone know if there is guidance for kids that already have approved language transfers from previous years, and if so, where we would find that? I have a sophomore who is in her 3rd year of her WL.

I am wondering this too.

The style of FCPS under Reid is maximum chaos and uncertainty accompanied by extreme timidity. She gets away with it because people like Robyn Lady are on the School Board who don’t care about kids and respond when pressed that kids are “resilient.”

Anyone know if there is guidance for kids that already have approved language transfers from previous years, and if so, where we would find that? I have a sophomore who is in her 3rd year of her WL.

What about 2nd year transfer students (rising sophomores) ? Will they be allowed to continue in the school to which they transferred last year?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a world language teacher in FCPS. We have been told that language is no longer a reason that will be accepted for high school transfers.

But they are still accepting transfers for AP or IB.
Seems unfair to limit it to the closest school if the closest school doesn’t offer the student’s language that they already started in high school, considering that can affect getting into schools like UVA.

Starting a new language freshman year will have zero negative impact on college admissions.

How are they going to do this with Immersion kids? The kids started in K or 1st grade with the language and suddenly they can’t transfer to a school with that language? Ridiculous. By 9th grade, the kids and families have already committed 8-9 years to developing that language and suddenly they won’t be able to continue?

I would guess that immersion is an exception.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a world language teacher in FCPS. We have been told that language is no longer a reason that will be accepted for high school transfers.

But they are still accepting transfers for AP or IB.
Seems unfair to limit it to the closest school if the closest school doesn’t offer the student’s language that they already started in high school, considering that can affect getting into schools like UVA.

Starting a new language freshman year will have zero negative impact on college admissions.

How are they going to do this with Immersion kids? The kids started in K or 1st grade with the language and suddenly they can’t transfer to a school with that language? Ridiculous. By 9th grade, the kids and families have already committed 8-9 years to developing that language and suddenly they won’t be able to continue?

Anonymous wrote:I’m a world language teacher in FCPS. We have been told that language is no longer a reason that will be accepted for high school transfers.

Brought to you by the same folks trying to cram 6th graders into Algebra.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a world language teacher in FCPS. We have been told that language is no longer a reason that will be accepted for high school transfers.

But they are still accepting transfers for AP or IB.
Seems unfair to limit it to the closest school if the closest school doesn’t offer the student’s language that they already started in high school, considering that can affect getting into schools like UVA.

Starting a new language freshman year will have zero negative impact on college admissions.