Round 1 Charter school data now up

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Anonymous wrote:I am really surprised at some of the middle school waiting lists, given how dire I see the middle school situation (I live on Capitol Hill). Basis only has 15 on the WL for 5th and DCI Chinese only has 12? This seems really odd to me give Yu Ying's massive wait list.
Makes it seem like the lottery is mostly for pk3 and pk4,because if you are still playing after that, especially in middle school,you have a lot less competition. Wonder if that will change by the time my kids get to middle school.

You'd have to be pretty brave to start your kid in chinese at grade 6 without having been in chinese immersion previously. I think with YY, unless you speak it at home, you're not going to be interested entering K or 1st onward. Similar for other languages.

What a typical ignorant American way of looking at things. So all or northing.

My cousin speaks 3 languages fluently and "knows" another 3 enough to get by comfortably. She learned a knew language every 3 years at school.

Your advice is "don't even bother with language exposure if you aren't going to learn it in immersion" and you don't speak it at home?

Yeah. Stick with that....

Not the PP, but isn't the DCI Chinese an immersion program? So, yes, I think I would be nervous to stick my 6th grader into an immersion program without previously having a large amount of language training in the targeted language (particularly with a language as challenging as Mandarin); the kid would have such a hard time adjusting and could fall behind in the subjects in the meantime.

I thought DCI was not an immersion?

You are correct. DCI supports 'advanced' language learners and they take about 1/3 of their classes in the target language. But none of the kids will be getting the same volume of foreign language instruction as they had in elementary school.

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Maybe for another thread, but -- if my kid is coming from a SPanish feeder and wants to learn French, will she still be on the Spanish track with French as a side language? Or can she switch to the French track while still taking some classes in Spanish?

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe for another thread, but -- if my kid is coming from a SPanish feeder and wants to learn French, will she still be on the Spanish track with French as a side language? Or can she switch to the French track while still taking some classes in Spanish?

She stays on the language track from her feeder school. The French would be her electives.