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[quote=Anonymous]I'm new to all this, and my kid is little so bear with me.

How does getting into DCI work?

I know there are feeder elementaries that are all immersion schools, which to me means most/all of those kids are fluent or nearly fluent. From my understanding, the feeder rights are a preference, not a guarantee. But then DCI also takes some kids from the lottery for both middle and high school. If that's the case, 1) wouldn't the preference essentially be a guarantee? They're not going to take any kids without a preference until all the kids with a preference have a seat, right? Are there some years where there hasn't been enough space. 2) The lottery is random. Wouldn't that mean kids coming in who have zero experience with the target language? How does that work? You can't teach 6th or 9th grade math in Chinese to a kid that doesn't know any Chinese, that's ludicrous. And you certainly can't have classes taught in Chinese where some of the kids are essentially fluent and some kids are just learning "hello, how are you?"

Is there some kind of proficiency test?

I feel like I'm missing something here. [/quote]

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