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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am an IT parent and honestly I'm not passionate about having language in school unless it's immersion.  My other top school choice was Haynes and I was not too concerned about the lack of language there either.  I know many parents feel strongly about it and that's a wonder of charters vs DCPS.  However, I know that IT does want to eventually hire a language teacher (maybe as early as next year).  I'm more of an "all or nothing" on this one.  I'd rather have a music teacher than an hour here or an hour there of language instruction.  If it were important to me, I would consider supplementing with summer/weekend programs.  Good luck.[/quote]

I could have written this myself.  I think if a second language is highly important to you then you should opt for a language immersion school. IT is a wonderful school, but language is not it's primary goal and spotty classes here or there are pretty useless.  I would say that most of us who willingly chose IT (as opposed to those families where this was the only spot available), did not see language as "make or break" in our decision process.  If language is super important to you I think you'll be frustrated.   [/quote]

I am the PP you quoted.  Thanks for that.  I thought that I was going to be shamed.  I do know that a language component is pretty important to many IT parents.  That is just about the only thing I usually disagree about.  I took Spanish elective from 5th grade - college and while I know how to conjugate a verb and know a lot of words.  I'm not sure if that was the best way to spend all those years.  I rather would have taken computer courses.[/quote]

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