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There are far more students without language immersion in need of a good MS option than there are these allegedly better prepared immersion students (I say this because there is no real long term data to support that they are or are not better prepared since this assertion doesn't specify what exactly they are better prepared for...), and DCI needs to stop focusing on a "safe" option for their feeder school kids, and instead focus on creating a strong MS option that can accommodate all students. This will keep the seats full and the doors open, which is the one of the great challenges ahead for DCI.[/quote]

But why can't DCI simply serve kids coming in with two languages?  Most of the students at the private international schools are that category, and a lot more of their parents would surely be attracted to a school like DCI without the open lottery component.  Maybe "safe" option should be termed "appropriate" option.  Speaking a language is not like a race or class, you aren't born into it, you can learn.  A lot of charter parents are sick of the "accomodate all students" mantra, since that's not what happens anyway.  If DCI would be allowed to set this basic admissions critera--two languages per kid coming in--by partnering with DCPS, go for it.  That would work well.   Great challenges sounds like code for most upper-middle-class families avoiding, or dropping out, as per usual.  Keeping seats full of lots of weak students takes us nowhere.  Same old same old.  DCI could be truly new.

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You may have a good point, but I can't really tell.  Can you reorganize this so that we can easily decipher your main points and your arguments for it?  Otherwise, you are wasting your time.[/quote]

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