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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Chinese is not a choice at Silver Creek. French and Spanish only. [/quote]  IT WAS CLEARLY DISCUSSED THAT LANGUAGES MAY NOT BE THE SAME BETWEEN THE TWO SCHOOLS.  ALSO CLASSES MAY NOT BE OFFERED BECAUSE OF LOW-ENROLLMENT OR BECAUSE THE PRINCIPAL DECIDES TO ALLOCATE RESOURCES DIFFERENTLY>

and it was never a choice for the 6th grades at CCES or NCC.

Now that Silver Creek is starting, a huge issue is equity in education with Westland.  If Chinese 1 & 2 are offered at Westland, then they must be offered at Silver Creek as well.  One of the major premises behind the parental vote to open Silver Creek was that, on addition to overcrowding at Westland, kids at CCES and NCC were not getting the same quality education as other 6th graders at Westland because the CCES/NCC 6th graders did not have access to same classes.   It has also been an ongoing major concern of parents that the creation of boundaries which placed a somewhat higher proportion of minority and lower SES students at SCMS vs. WMS not lead to diminished educational opportunity and quality at SCMS.

Hearing about this, an additional concern is that not offering Chinese at SCMS will, in the long term diminish the quality of the Chines program at BCC because the pipeline of incoming students will get smaller.

PArents interested in Chinese should organize and meet with MCPS officials to rectify situation.[/quote][/quote]

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