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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid recently switched from our IB DCPS to a French immersion school near DC.  There are families there from France but also francophone African countries, Haiti, etc.  There is definitely a significant French-speaking population in the DC area.[/quote]

If you are describing the francophone population in DC as &quot;significant&quot; then what word would you use to describe the hispanic/latino population?

OP, DC and other cities have spanish dual language schools because there is a large and increasing Spanish-speaking demographic in the school-aged population. Roughly half or a third of public school students in some neighborhoods. There may not be any neighborhood in DC with &gt;1 percent francophone so it would be better as a charter or other non-boundary school. Same with Russian, German etc. 
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PP here.  Of course, the Spanish-speaking population is much larger; I thought that went without saying.  I was just commenting that there is also a not insignificant number of people who speak French in the area too.  We know several families in our neighborhood, and both staff and kids at our IB school—my Ker had a couple of kids in class last year who spoke French.  I have French-speaking coworkers, and also hear it spoken regularly by passersby downtown.

I agree that because there isn’t a concentration of French-speaking families anywhere in DC, the idea of instituting a French immersion school in any particular neighborhood would be tough.  However, I wonder if an idea like Oyster would work.  Just brainstorming here—perhaps make an up-and-coming, centrally located EOTP school a French immersion.  IB families can attend by right, and let kids from all over the city test in.  Seems you’d have the makings of a desirable and racially/socioeconomically diverse school.[/quote]

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