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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Opting out of a class everyone else takes is a curriculum change. Freeing up a staff member to staff a study hall requires extra resources. Offering advanced sections or two of a foreign language also requires hiring another teacher (and god knows they have trouble finding competent Spanish teachers to cover the ones they do offer) .

BASIS has more teachers per grade than other schools to cover the 3 science disciplines students take in 6th, 7th and 8th. [b]That's where they put their resources. [/b]If that doesn't work for your family, it does indeed make sense for you to choose something else.

Finally, I'd love to see some empirical evidence that exposure to a third language at school would hurt their ability to learn a second language at home. [/quote]

Come on, the immigrant parents weren't asking for extra "resources" from BASIS to support their children's language learning.  Apparently, they were asking for a little flexibility for a sound academic reason (rooted in ambition) and none was offered by administrators/a charter franchise with tunnel vision.

-Signed,
European parent who grew up trilingual and has observed that "advanced" language study DC public schools is a joke[/quote]

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