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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Entirely unrelated question:  if the mission of this school is true bilingualism, why the $^@% did they drop pk-3?

Everyone knows the best window to begin language acquisition is those early years.  Starting at 4 instead 3 strikes me as incredibly stupid.   Space and budget concerns, assuming they exist, should've been foisted on another grade or aspect of the curriculum.[/quote]

Do you know anything about this school? It has never had PK3. It just wasn't started.

While I agree from a language acquisition point of view that starting at 3 would be much better, especially with a difficult language like Chinese, I also understand there's only so much they can bite off at a time. They need to design the curriclum and hire new teachers for a new grade every year, including soon going into the middle school years for the first time (hot topic on these boards as you can see). So they can only stretch themselves so thin and I can imagine they didn't feel they could take on adding yet another grade next year.

- Not a YY parent (but one at another charter who understands charter growth issues)[/quote]

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