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[quote=Anonymous][/quote]sorry, but Deal[b] IS[/b] marvellous, IMO
Adams has some issues, but not even at Basis/Deal/Sidwell/Cathedral is a 6th grader able to study 2 useful modern languages (Spanish and Mandarin) to fluency[/quote]

Fluency?  You speak Mandarin fluently and use it to chat with YY kids?  I do and fluent is not in the cards.  They are building a good ES foundation in Mandarin but can only get so far with 2.5 days a week of instruction, without more than a handful of bilingual peers and parents involved, and generally without families who can afford Mandarin summer camps and trips to China.  We left YY for Sidwell for lack of rigor in English instruction, and the absence of a Chinese-speaking community suporting the school, but speak Mandarin at home and on annual trips to visit relatives in China.  No concerns about being left in the dust by the YY crowd, thanks.  We are concerned about affording privates for two kids from 2015+ if we strike at at Latin and/or Basis so will probably move to burbs.  We're IB for SH - forget it, rowdy kids, little ability grouping, weak facilities and teaching.[/quote]

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