Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
This is something that the bilingual charters struggle with as their popularity increases. Look at Yu Ying and Stokes French posts for how much families complain about the quality of the language program because there aren’t sufficient native speakers. A by-right bilingual school HAS to have a language preference in early grades to let in OOB families and sufficient dominant families, or it will be impossible to maintain the quality of the program.
Native speakers are the key to a successful program. You are 100% right here.
What I would question, though, based upon the principal's obvious antipathy to the non-Latino parents (especially the affluent ones) is whether the preferences are being used to maintain a successful bilingual program or whether the ECE preferences are really being used to keep one particular demographic dominant in the school. Her comments, ill-considered as they were, would suggest the latter.
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