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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oyster doesn't have French.

Are you thinking of a curriculum focused primarily on France, or on the whole Francophone world?  Are you thinking of a French curriculum, such as offered in a Lycee or of an American or IB curriculum taught in French?[/quote]

These are poignant considerations. I'm sure it will take us a while to figure it out. What are your thoughts? Let's get a real conversation going. I'm thinking about this now. What I know is I have the passionate interest, but I don't know anything about what you've described. Anyone with real world knowledge out there? Please chime in. This has the makings of a start-up!!![/quote]

I can answer my own question of what's important to me.  I'm coming at this from the viewpoint of a current charter school teacher, who thinks it might be exciting to be part of a start up.  I'm also a parent, but my own child would be too old for the program, so I'm looking at it less from that perspective.

[b]I'd be much more interested in a school that celebrated all Francophone heritage.  Where students studied about, and read literature from Mali and Togo and Benin, as well as France and Belgium and Switzerland, and where students looked at issues that faced those countries.  I'd also be much more interested in a school that did a lot of outreach of French speaking African families in the area.[/b]As far as curriculum, I find the Lycee curriculum to be very rigid, and would prefer an American model, perhaps with an IB programme.  [/quote]

I am so, totally, completely with you on the bolded part.  I love that idea.  And I think the French-speaking population of DC includes so many African-heritage families, it would be a real mistake not to take this approach.[/quote]

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