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David Golden
Mar 21, 2010, 12:46:38 AM3/21/10
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An unfortunate silver living of the SFUSD cutbacks is that it may be easier to locate an after school French program at a SFUSD school campus.
A serious challenge to date has been to locate space in a school. Teachers generally don't like to have after hour programs located in their classroom, for a variety of good reasons.
The upcoming cutbacks at SFUSD schools will be done with 'equity' across schools, both high- and low-demand, so that SFUSD isn't perceived as reducing support for the under-performing schools.
This means that there will be underutilized, and possibly empty classrooms at even high demand schools.
So it should be a lot easier to locate space.
If you were really, really lucky, you might find a school where there is already a specialist teaching French, either at that school or nearby.
As an aside, there is a similar set of parents that were interested in putting together a Hebrew program. It was too late to organize some sort of FLES program, so what ended up happening is several families organized their own private after-school program with a handful of kids in each. These efforts are reportedly going well.
Reportedly a good model for setting up an afterschool language program is at Argonne. A bunch of parents got together, and organized either a Chinese or Russian immersion language program (forgot which one). The cost per student is quite reasonable, so I understand.
A serious challenge to date has been to locate space in a school. Teachers generally don't like to have after hour programs located in their classroom, for a variety of good reasons.
The upcoming cutbacks at SFUSD schools will be done with 'equity' across schools, both high- and low-demand, so that SFUSD isn't perceived as reducing support for the under-performing schools.
This means that there will be underutilized, and possibly empty classrooms at even high demand schools.
So it should be a lot easier to locate space.
If you were really, really lucky, you might find a school where there is already a specialist teaching French, either at that school or nearby.
As an aside, there is a similar set of parents that were interested in putting together a Hebrew program. It was too late to organize some sort of FLES program, so what ended up happening is several families organized their own private after-school program with a handful of kids in each. These efforts are reportedly going well.
Reportedly a good model for setting up an afterschool language program is at Argonne. A bunch of parents got together, and organized either a Chinese or Russian immersion language program (forgot which one). The cost per student is quite reasonable, so I understand.
Frank Murphy
Mar 21, 2010, 1:02:23 AM3/21/10
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I hadn't heard about the Hebrew program. Could you tell me which schools
have started this? I know that at Argonne, they have an in-school
Russian FLES program. Not sure about the afterschool.
have started this? I know that at Argonne, they have an in-school
Russian FLES program. Not sure about the afterschool.
Frank
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