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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] 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]

I think this is a valid point.  As a parent at an immersion school that is very much a balance of higher and lower income families, there is a definite divide that is pretty hard to bridge- because it's language, income, lifestyle, etc.  My kid isn't really friends with the lower income kids in the class- it's not a racial thing, as many of the black and Hispanic kids are higher income kids.  I think the language barrier is pretty real for the kids, so they naturally gather with other kids who primarily speak English.  The outcome is that when it comes time for playdates/birthday parties, are we going to invite kids who mine isn't friends with?  These are real issues when it comes to bridging this divide.  I guess my point is that it isn't easy, and it isn't "natural"- it takes real work.[/quote]

Celebrate the child's birthday in the classroom or at a public place and not at home. [/quote]

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