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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think people pick immersion because they like the idea of being able to say, "My kid speaks two languages!"  It makes their kids sound smarter than your kid  :mrgreen: .[/quote]

Do people think that?  My maid speaks 2 languages and didn't graduate high school my FIL has 2 PHDs and is monolingual. [/quote]

I always think this in my head when I see the "monolingual is the new stupid" mantra reposted on DCUM by the kook-aid drinkers.

The guy who cuts my grass in 96 degree weather is also bilingual.  [/quote]

The guy who cuts your grass is also likely a survivor of multiple hardships/atrocities in his home country. He is here taking advantage of your expendable cash ( an laziness) to better himself and or a whole family in the US and likely back home. He will take your money and bring his family here or support them at home. I think that makes him less of the loser than you think he is.[/quote]

Yeah.  Between PP and the guy who cuts his grass, I think I know which one I'd rather Be around.[/quote]

Employer of lawn service here.     Point out in my post where I said the guy who cuts my grass is a "loser" or that I "think he is" a loser.    Or even implied that.

Here's what I do think:  I think he and the millions of bilingual people living in the US aren't necessarily geniuses with massive advantages over monolingual people in the US.

This contradicts the Kool-Aid fueled mantra of many young white DC parents who like to post on DCUM.   That is all.  [/quote]

New poster here: think what you like, but my child who is a math/science whiz and headed towards a top engineering program in a few years will without a doubt benefit in the job market from being one of very few truly bilingual/biliterate, American-born engineers. Thanks, immersion education!

That doesn't make me a superior parent, just as sending a kid to the neighborhood school doesn't make you superior. It just means that we were willing to take a chance on immersion education and then didn't pull out for a non-immersion program when we realized kid was more math/science focused. Why would we, when engineers outside the US somehow manage to acquire STEM skills AND become bi/multi-lingual?[/quote]

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