Instead of Camp-Out, Vouchers for Spanish Immersion Sign-Up

Tonight, parents will be waiting feverishly outside Liberty Bell Elementary to be one of the first 29 to secure their children a space in the ever-popular Spanish Immersion program. 

Unlike years past, this line won't be That's because the Southern Lehigh School Board voted at the March 26 meeting to do away with a 7am first-come, first-serve policy. This year, anyone interested in the program will be issued a ticket. 

To be eligible for one of the tickets, families must adhere to the following registration process:

• Representatives of the student (can be any adult 18 and over) will be allowed on school property no earlier than 5pm April 24 and will line up.
• At 7pm, a school representative will come out and hand out vouchers as those representatives "sign in" (student's name, as well as the rep's address and phone). The vouchers will be numbered, securing the "place in line."
• Representatives will then return to the school at 7am and form two lines, one for those with numbered vouchers, and one for those who don't have vouchers. 
• At 7:30am, a school official will begin calling for vouchers in numbered order. Applications will be collected then.
• Those in the second line will be considered on a first-come, first-serve basis. 

Several protocols have been clarified this year, following the settlement of a lawsuit between the Southern Lehigh School