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Anonymous wrote:I'm a US-born person of East European descent, and have lived and worked in Russia for years. I think this charter could be great, if it integrated the best parts of Russian literary, artistic, and academic cultures.

The language piece is kind of secondary to high academic standards, and wanting your child to grow up highly literate.

I'm not sure who the target audience is, though, as there is already a Russian-language school run through the Russian Embassy.

Could you please share more info on this? I thought it only serves embassy kids and not open to the public.

PP of the first post upthread here. I've known non-Embassy kids to attend, but I think they had to really work at admission. It's also, as another PP said, a very specific curriculum.

We didn't seek it for our kids because I'd heard the overall attitude was less than nurturing. Which doesn't surprise me, having interacted with the Russian school system. I wanted something a little less rigid for the early elementary years. But you can't argue with success. The Russian education system works - unless it burns you out.

Thank you for mentioning the nurturing part - I would not want to give it up, even for an excellent education.

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Anonymous wrote:PP 12:56 - My children have attended the Embassy school. It is certainly geared towards the children of diplomats, but there are a handful of non-diplomats who attend. My children went there because we moved to Washington from Moscow unexpectedly and thought it would be more comfortable for them to stick with the system they knew. It is the Russian state curriculum, which as you probably know is a very specific thing. If you're interested for a child older than ?????? ?????, I think it would be very difficult to start.

I also know the people who are trying to start the Tolstoy Academy and they are thinking of it as an immersion program (like many others in the city) that also emphasizes the strengths of the Russian curriculum - math, science, classic literature.

I am happy that my children are bilingual in Russian and I think that, given the state of affairs between Russia and the US, Russian-language skills are likely to be in demand in the future.

Thank you! Is there an official way to contact someone from the embassy school? I could not find anything on their website. As to the charter, ideally, i'd send my childred to a good Russian after school program rather than a full immersion program. I feel that full immersion will alienate my kids and devoid them of a more traditional American childhood that I can't provide being an immigrant. I do want my kids to be bilingual, but I don't want them to feel foreign in their country of birth.

There is no final word on how full or partial the immersion would be, nor on the exact age at which the school would start. You are encouraged to contact people who are trying to start the school as they are seeking to hear preferences from parents. Vote https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WGG77PK