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[quote=Anonymous][quote]That is to say, at Bancroft and other dual-language schools, out-of-boundary with sibling gets in before inbound without sibling.[/quote]

So then it stands to reason that OOB families without sibling are last in line for consideration.  There's your answer, OP.

[quote]Are you truly interested and willing to engage with the community at Bancroft? Do you have any Spanish language skills yourself? Are you willing to learn them? If you want to be part of the school, and have your child be part of his or her class and school community, will you organize playdates and invite classmates to birthday parties when parents don't speak any English? Are you comfortable with doing this in a real, meaningful way and not as a cultural experiment because it sounds cool for your kid to learn a foreign language at age 3?[/quote]

Thank you SO MUCH for putting this out there.  We're IB for Bruce Monroe and for Powell and I have been finding it hard to articulate why I'm not as excited for a dual language public school as other parents in my neighborhood.  I think learning a second language at an early age is great, but it's less important to me than sense of community and belonging.  The growing number of committed families is compelling but, for me at least, it comes with a growing unease that we're just putting two separate communities in the same classrooms.  Durably separate.  If my kid gets a seat I'll want to learn Spanish myself and make an effort toward integrating with families outside the classroom.  But that just doesn't seem realistic when I think about it.[/quote]

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