Why has our school district adopted the Immersion program when several years ago they removed the Spanish classes due to costs?
We are disappointed that a second language is not currently an option for all students at all grades. The introduction of the new kindergarten immersion program is an attempt to once again grow an elementary world language program, but in a more cost efficient and effective way than the exploratory program formerly offered. The immersion options will be inclusive and open to all kindergarten families who wish to enroll. The concept of returning the previous exploratory language program was considered. However, the former model is more costly and less effective for language acquisition than the proposed immersion model. The goal of immersion is language acquisition. The goals of the exploratory model is exposure to the culture and language.
