Trilingual Charter School option?

[Anonymous]

Are there any trilingual charter school options currently available or pending? I am looking for something like the Atlanta Trilingual Academy English, Spanish & Chinese Immersion School.

http://atlantatrilingualacademy.com

[Anonymous]

Not immersion, but doesn't Creative Minds teach both Spanish and Chinese?

[Anonymous]

No

[Anonymous]

DCI

[Anonymous]

Stokes but you don't learn both languages, just one or the other (in addition to english)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not immersion, but doesn't Creative Minds teach both Spanish and Chinese?

They offer "exposure" to both. So no.

[Anonymous]

If you do the whole Mundo Verde, Stokes, YY, LAMB, DCB track you will end with three languages. Or you could do what we do and put them in one of these feeder schools and go to our heritage language school on the weekend.

[Anonymous]

And the Atlanta one is a private school, not a charter. Charters have to take all lottery winners so I think it would be much harder, if even possible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And the Atlanta one is a private school, not a charter. Charters have to take all lottery winners so I think it would be much harder, if even possible.

+ Common Core and standardized testing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you do the whole Mundo Verde, Stokes, YY, LAMB, DCB track you will end with three languages. Or you could do what we do and put them in one of these feeder schools and go to our heritage language school on the weekend.

No, if your child goes from a feeder to DCI, they will get two languages (English plus the target language, and *maybe* exposure to a third language). DCI expects students to continue studying the target language that they started in the feeder. If your child is doing well in that language, they can start taking a class in another (beginner) language beginning in 6th grade.

[Anonymous]

It's a private school rather than a charter school, but Washington International School (WIS) has multiple language tracks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you do the whole Mundo Verde, Stokes, YY, LAMB, DCB track you will end with three languages. Or you could do what we do and put them in one of these feeder schools and go to our heritage language school on the weekend.

No, if your child goes from a feeder to DCI, they will get two languages (English plus the target language, and *maybe* exposure to a third language). DCI expects students to continue studying the target language that they started in the feeder. If your child is doing well in that language, they can start taking a class in another (beginner) language beginning in 6th grade.

Let's do some math.

One language at your elementary school (spanish, French, or chinese) plus one additional language at DCI, plus the English language equals... Three languages.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a private school rather than a charter school, but Washington International School (WIS) has multiple language tracks.

Do your research- this is not quite accurate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a private school rather than a charter school, but Washington International School (WIS) has multiple language tracks.

Do your research- this is not quite accurate.

WIS has French or Spanish in elementary and you pick one or the other, not both, and stay on that track through high school. Additional weekly afterschool classes are offered in Spanish, French, Chinese and Arabic in elementary school, but that's only 1 hour per week. Starting in middle school, you can take Chinese as an elective.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a private school rather than a charter school, but Washington International School (WIS) has multiple language tracks.

Do your research- this is not quite accurate.

WIS has French or Spanish in elementary and you pick one or the other, not both, and stay on that track through high school. Additional weekly afterschool classes are offered in Spanish, French, Chinese and Arabic in elementary school, but that's only 1 hour per week. Starting in middle school, you can take Chinese as an elective.

Thank you for writing that out PP. I wanted to but then I got lazy.