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[quote=Anonymous] He is in 10th grade and went through the entire MCPS chinese immersion program at Potomac Elementary, the on to Hoover and Churchill for chinese language instruction. We are told that next year, Chinese 5, he will be given the Chinese SAT Subject test at the beginning of year. Depending on his score he will be encouraged to either stay with the language or drop it. Several parents of Chinese 5 students have told me this. The vast majority of DS's class is native speakers. The 3 non native speakers started in the immersion program as well. One was a year ahead of my son and has dropped down level. The course highly favors the native speakers and discriminates against the non-native speakers. Sadly, we will probably let him quit Chinese after this year. His GPA is too important to allow the chinese to bring it down.  The non native students never get A's, rarely get B's and mostly get C's.  After 11 years in these programs I've come to realize that allowing the native speakers to dictate the level of the program is like letting native English speakers dictate the difficulty level of ESOL. If you disagree with me, tell my why.
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