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[Post New]07/27/2013 06:31
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Anonymous
^^ This is actually bad because a general lottery for students who do not speak Spanish, Chinese or French with proficiency (enough to succeed in courses taught in those languages) would create tremendous chaos at a language immersion school. The students have to be admitted and, as usual, resources would be taken from the students who are already proficient to assist English only students. This is very worrisome.
[Post New]07/27/2013 14:50
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Anonymous
There will be enough English classes for kids who are not proficient in Spanish, French and Mandarin. DCI is NOT a language immersion school.
[Post New]07/27/2013 17:38
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:There will be enough English classes for kids who are not proficient in Spanish, French and Mandarin. DCI is NOT a language immersion school.


You are wrong. DCI will be a "language immersion school" whereas you will continue learning your foreign language from your elementary feeder school.
[Post New]07/27/2013 20:16
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There will be enough English classes for kids who are not proficient in Spanish, French and Mandarin. DCI is NOT a language immersion school.


You are wrong. DCI will be a "language immersion school" whereas you will continue learning your foreign language from your elementary feeder school.


It is to the extent the kids can continue with the target language if they choose but that it will not be the manditory 50-50 English/Target language that existed at the feeder schools. It will be possible for kids to continue on to middle school and high school mostly if not all of their cousework in English. These students will not be eligible for an IB diploma.
[Post New]07/27/2013 20:17
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Anonymous
These conjectures are so far in the future-DC Bilingual only goes to 1st grade this year. They have a few years to reduce the debt.
[Post New]07/27/2013 20:24
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Anonymous

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There will be enough English classes for kids who are not proficient in Spanish, French and Mandarin. DCI is NOT a language immersion school.



You are wrong. DCI will be a "language immersion school" whereas you will continue learning your foreign language from your elementary feeder school.



It is to the extent the kids can continue with the target language if they choose but that it will not be the manditory 50-50 English/Target language that existed at the feeder schools. It will be possible for kids to continue on to middle school and high school mostly if not all of their cousework in English. These students will not be eligible for an IB diploma.


If this is true, this is good news for anyone who wants to lottery in if space is available. This is better for DCI's long term viability as it won't be solely dependent on the retention from their feeder schools. It's also good for bilingual kids not already in the feeder schools.
[Post New]07/27/2013 20:29
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:These conjectures are so far in the future-DC Bilingual only goes to 1st grade this year. They have a few years to reduce the debt.


You are confused. DC Bilingual currently expanded to 6th grade.

http://dcbilingual.org/who-we-are#
[Post New]07/27/2013 20:57
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There will be enough English classes for kids who are not proficient in Spanish, French and Mandarin. DCI is NOT a language immersion school.



You are wrong. DCI will be a "language immersion school" whereas you will continue learning your foreign language from your elementary feeder school.



It is to the extent the kids can continue with the target language if they choose but that it will not be the manditory 50-50 English/Target language that existed at the feeder schools. It will be possible for kids to continue on to middle school and high school mostly if not all of their cousework in English. These students will not be eligible for an IB diploma.


If this is true, this is good news for anyone who wants to lottery in if space is available. This is better for DCI's long term viability as it won't be solely dependent on the retention from their feeder schools. It's also good for bilingual kids not already in the feeder schools.


Actually DCI's model is dependent on not having a sizable number of students lottery in (basically anyone who needs remediation in English). The whole goal of DCI is to graduate kids with an IB degree but that may not be realistic for all thus the availability of enough classes in English for a regular HS diploma not IB. All IB public HS have this option. IB diploma requirements are tough.

If DC Bilingual manages to overcome their financial woes, the expectation is that there will be no lottery spots for new students.
[Post New]07/27/2013 21:16
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Anonymous
^^ oh goodness. This thread has made me dizzy and worried. I think any feeder that isn't financially sound should be removed as a DCI feeder. This school remains the immersion model I counted on with high numbers of bilingual speakers (Spanish, French, German). Having to worry about high numbers of Enflish only and the resources that will be diverted to them waters down the whole concept. I hope someone will start urging the board to allow for back filling of abandoned seats with bilinguals which will partly remedy this problem and perhaps strengthen it. Imagine Mandarin slots going to already Mandarin natives, etc...
[Post New]07/27/2013 21:52
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Anonymous
Public charter schools are not allowed to give preferences. It's been discussed on this board ad nauseum.
[Post New]07/28/2013 08:37
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Anonymous
^^ You're a genius!... Try reading the post again and if you still can't get it, let your five year old help you. Clearly that is not allowed by NOW. That's why the poster said he/she hopes the rule can be changed to allow for back-filling. If we don't start getting people with brains (ie not you) to be stakeholders in DCI it doesn't stand a chance.
[Post New]07/28/2013 09:28
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Anonymous
^^^ And you are a moron. Yeah, backfilling with native bilingual speakers is a great idea!!! Why didn't we think of it before!!! Getting the DCPCSB to allow preferences has been discussed regularly on DCUM and it's not going to happen anytime soon. Do a search, idiot.
[Post New]07/28/2013 11:20
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Anonymous
It's time for that rule to change. It's disserving our kids. Has anyone ever broached the council?
[Post New]07/28/2013 11:23
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:It's time for that rule to change. It's disserving our kids. Has anyone ever broached the council?


Try using the search key, lazy ass. We're not here to spoon feed you every little bit of information.
[Post New]07/28/2013 14:02
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It's time for that rule to change. It's disserving our kids. Has anyone ever broached the council?


Try using the search key, lazy ass. We're not here to spoon feed you every little bit of information.


Why don't you try removing your head from you ass before you start making suggestions to others. If a law is on the books and it is counterproductive, people with common sense know that it should and can be changed. Perhaps, you're too stupid to get that concept, but you're just another worthless pulsation breathing the air you don't deserve. Hope you're not at DCUM, so the status quo can remain acceptable.
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