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What is your first choice bilingual program?
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Anonymous
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Back to the question at hand. My choices are:
Charters: 1. Stokes 2. Mundo Verde 3. DC Bilingual (may move to 4th place ahead of YY) 4. Yu Ying (but I question the value of Chinese vs. Spanish) DCPS 1. Cleveland 2. Bancroft 3. Marie Reed (yep....Marie Reed) Didn't selected anything on The Hill because it is too far from home. Same thing with upper NW, although I am not familiar w/bilingual programs in upper NW. Overall, hoping for Stokes, Mundo Verde then Cleveland. |
Anonymous
I'm sure that they do attract some native Chinese speakers. However, YY is not permitted to give any sort of preference to navite speakers in the lottery process. So if 5% of the applicant pool speaks Mandarin, you can expect that only 5% of the admitted kids will speak Mandarin. |
Anonymous
| Just wondering if the kids pulled out for extra instruction in English were Chinese. If they were, it would seem a perfectly appropriate thing to do. |
Anonymous
No, they are some 3rd graders. English-speaking. |
Anonymous
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I'm no education expert, but I suspect the issue for these students is not that they need double the time getting educated in English at the expense of Chinese. These students need special education help and apparently Yu Ying is not giving it to them. And, their solution to the problem sounds like a recipe for forcing those kids out of the school eventually. Yu Ying parent here. I am not entirely comfortable with the proposal from the information that is out there (but I should point out that it has not been adopted or presented in its entirety and I am not sure that this is the forum for necessarily discussing it). However, just to address the point above. I have found that the special education to be very good (my own child has used it). There is an intensive study group for third graders who need additional assistance after school that is offered at no cost to parents and is helping them prepare for the DC-CAS. Also to address another point, I think some of the more disruptive kids who caused those girls to leave the school last year have either matured or left the program. The third grade class now has very few discipline issues (no more than your average school). |
Anonymous
We have very similar choices. Charters: I left off Yu Ying. We have the same choices for DCPS except my ranking is a little different. |
Anonymous
Ours are somewhat similar but rankings different. Think Cleveland looks better than Stokes, though it is less diverse. Liked the leadership at Cleveland more than Stokes. Mundo Verde is a total unknown. Yu Ying is not on our list as we are applying for preschool. What is your thinking on DC Bilingual? Seems attractive -- why are scores so bad? |
Anonymous
| I haven't heard much about DC bilingual. When I went to drop off the application, the kids were well behaved-they just camp back from an outdoor activity. It seems to be very diverse (at least the lower grades.) |
Anonymous
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DC Bilingual is a lovely program and the facility is very nice. Quite difficult to get into.
Put Centronia Universal PreK (PS 3/4, administered in the same building as DC Bilingual but by different people) on your list too. It is a waitlist 'cause it's not a charter school, but it moves fast, and if you don't get into a regular immersion program, it is a good place to be for a few years. My kids loved it. |
Anonymous
If you are looking for diversity (as in some kids are white-middle class) Stokes is better than Cleveland or DC-Bilingual. I think they have much better scores too -- even adjusted for population. But, I don't think your kid will be short-changed at any of those schools. (cue the JKLMO or bust troll in 5 4 3 2 1....) |
Anonymous
| When did Oyster become a last choice? |
Anonymous
| 18:45 - Cleveland has the highest test scores of the three, Stokes is significantly lower, and DC Bilingual is really low ( 20s/30s). |
Anonymous
Since it became 100% impossible for English-dominant families to get in OOB. Why consider something that would be little more than a waste of a lottery opportunity? |
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Hi, I am founder of Chevy Chase Reggio which may be the only bilingual Reggio-Emilia preschool in the area. I am fluent in Spanish (my native language) and English (through grad school) and love watching even 2 year olds pick up both languages so quickly. For Latin families, this is a wonderful way to keep your children speaking Spanish while also preparing them for kindergarten which is usually in English unless you can get into an immersion school. For english speaking children, there is no better time than 2-5 years old for them to start a second language.
We are interested in starting a Spanish immersion class as well. I'd love to hear from families whether this would be of interest. Please email me at info@ChevyChaseReggio.com sometime. |
Anonymous
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A Spanish Immersion Reggio program would be very cool!
I suggest you start a new thread though, you might get more new eyes on the message. Good luck. |