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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"[b]Keep those low-income kids out of Chinese immersion programs."[/b]

Keep them coming, heritage racists.[/quote]

Not any kind of heritage type, racist or not. This white lady only speaks English.

Better yet, keep well-meaning but muddle-headed school system planners from duping low and moderate SES families into believing that their kids can learn to speak languages without supplementing extensively and expensively. Teach them that language exposure at the expense of 50% of instruction in English throughout elementary school is crap.

Pony up to provide families of modest means with the support they need for success, and maintain high standards for learning to speak languages.

Alternatively, have the good grace to [b]educate parents of modest means about how immersion programs without big cohorts of native speakers aren't good for their children[/b].[/quote]

What do you mean “aren’t good for children?”  For many families, especially those of modest means, YY is far superior than the alternative; many IBs have abysmal test scores and concentrated poverty.  I’d wager that overall outcomes for these families are far superior at popular language immersion schools than at their IB.  [/quote]

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