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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not OP but DH and I are trying to get pregnant and my biggest worry is that our future children will not be able to speak Arabic fluently. I'm curious - is there any interest in starting a bilingual Arabic-English preschool in the DC metro area? If there isn't we should figure out how to start one![/quote]

The only public Arabic immersion charter school I know of is (was) in Brooklyn and there was a lot of backlash.  I think the school got off the ground, but there was a lot of intense political opposition.  I would imagine the same thing would happen if an Arabic school tried to get started in DC. [/quote]

Yeah but that was a charter school using public money. A preschool would be private. There are many Islamic preschools here and there has been no backlash. Problem with Islamic preschools is that there is very little Arabic - and when there is, it is usually in a religious context only.[/quote]
Isn't the Saudi government providing the funding and thus the stipulation that their brand of Islam will prevail?[/quote]

Many, not all.[/quote]

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