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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I am not unsympathetic to the idea.  I would love for my child to take French and there certainly are a number of French-speaking folks, I know several families just in my little neighborhood.  But it's not likely to happen.

I did ask our principal this one time, and here's what she said.  Basically, it's hard to get from here to there.  If the current parents at the school don't support it, they will ask quite reasonably why you are so concerned about potential future students instead of the priorities of the students you do have.  And it costs more and is harder to administer.  If you already have a large number of Spanish-speaking folks, Spanish is an easier sell.  A French-speaking school would need to serve a lot of out-of-boundary kids just to fill up.  Now, with the new chancellor seeming supposedly more open to magnet school concepts, maybe that wouldn't be seen as a bad thing.

Also, if it's going to be a magnet, it might not be French or any language.  Some people will want Montessori, some people will want STEM, some will want music and the arts, etc.  It's hard to get folks to settle on a concept.  [/quote]

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