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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The core problem with a bilingual program is that the students who will come in native/home speakers live in Columbia Hts, Adams Morgan/Lanier Hts, Mt Pleasant, Park View, and Ward 4.  So you will be starting a program like that at Tyler, with no native speakers if in SE Ward 6.

With no Spanish speaking population. Or any other second language population nearby, I might recommend French as a dual language program.  I think the Hill would go for it.[/quote]

There are absolutely native speakers of Spanish in Ward 6, or near native speakers, just not many poor immigrant Latinos at all.  I know half a  dozen Hill families who mainly speak Spanish at home with little kids whose names sit on the Tyler SI waiting lists for PreS3 and Prek4.  The circumstances of the parents vary - one dad is a diplomat, another a former Peace Corps volunteer, another a medical professional who became fluent in Spanish as a teen and adult, another a journalist from Europe.

French wouldn't be a good choice - Stokes has trouble retaining kids.  Not much demand - many of us who studied French in high school wish we'd gone with Spanish.

I'd much rather see the Tyler SI program displace the Tyler Traditional program, because the latter has very few IB kids.  The Traditional program kids could be moved to Payne, which is 2/3 OOB and has significantly higher test scores.   Almost everybody would be better off.

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Not enough to have a balanced population as Ward 1 and 4. [/quote]

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