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[quote=Anonymous]Yea, but federal and DC charter law hurt duel immersion (other than in name only).  With a single lottery for admission, mono-lingual parents in the know soon storm the successful language immersion charters, or they never attract a cohort of target language speakers in the first place (YY).  A school certainly can't rely on bilingual teachers kids to furnish bilingual students.

We left YY for a JKLM because we were one of the only fully bilingual, Chinese-speaking families in a wildly popular charter with more than 500 students.  The program couldn't begin to provide appropriate language learning supports for our kids, because it wasn't set up to accommodate bilingual Chinese-speaking students. We didn't even have Chinese-speaking admins we could speak to in Chinese. Our children were treated like they spoke no more Chinese than other students in their grade (when they spoke at least twice as well as the strongest students who didn't speak the target language at home, and three or four times as well as the rest).  We're much better of using a heritage language program in MoCo where the students are being raised in bilingual, Chinese-speaking homes.

We don't need more in-demand but fake immersion programs in this city to accommodate parents fleeing awful in-boundary schools.  Do immersion right DC, or don't bother at taxpayers expense, and that means DCPS immersion, not charter.  [/quote]

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