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Anonymous
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Re-posting from another thread...hoping for some genuine advice.
We are a multi-lingual family who will be applying to pre-schools for our daughter this year. Being new to this process, we hear a lot about the advantage of diversity. Does anyone have advice on how to play up our multi-lingual / multi-cultural background? Should we be subtle or more direct about highlighting this? Thank you |
Anonymous
| Could be wrong, but I honestly think it doesn't matter at the preschool level. Washington is full of multiethnic, multilingual families (which is one of the wonderful things about it). |
Anonymous
| I answered on your original thread - so check back on that one too. GL! |
Anonymous
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Put it on your application like the other people do...this situation is not that unique. Maybe if you lived in St. Louis, but not here.
GL. |
Anonymous
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Are you applying to an language immersion school? Like WIS or LAMB? If this is the situation it may make a difference. If you are looking at schools like Aidan, I don't think they care. I hate to break it to you, but this is almost the norm as opposed to the exception here in DC as there are many international families.
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Anonymous
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It also sounds a bit like admissions gainsmanship. Just take your child on the tours/interviews. Your application will probably ask the languages spoken at home and you can answer. My son is "multi-cultural" as well. I recall it did enter the applications, and they did know he was multilingual to the extent that his dad did not speak to him in English (nor does he ever). But otherwise we didn't make a big deal about it.
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Anonymous
| sorry, gamesmanship. |