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[quote=Anonymous]I wish that the YY parents who live around us would have invested in our rising IB school in NE (like we have) instead of running w/the hobby of immersion denial.

The PP who talked about studying Spanish in Peru in college, but losing most of her language skills later, nailed it. If adults don't have a good reason to use a language they studied for years as young people, speaking skills fade away. That's why the ABCs on these threads raising their kids to speak their dialects to communicate with family will get the last laugh. They take jabs from parents who don't speak any language but English, but they're not wrong.

I find it interesting to compare this YY thread to those 5 or 6 years back (when we turned down a spot). The chaos and arrival of a big high needs Latino population at DCI w/out academic tracking but with tone deaf admins has woken some of the immersion parents up. They're getting to grips with the reality that this particular charter experiment ain't going as planned.[/quote]

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