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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCI! My daughter LOVES it![/quote]

what does she love about it? how are the academics?[/quote]

and how does it work for kids who have not up to that point been studying a foreign language??????[/quote]

Most posters who've posted on DCI were at a feeder before so they weren't totally new to a foreign language, but at the DCI info session I went to they were very clear that there is a path for those who enter in 6th and 9th grade where you don't already have to know another language beyond English.

My understanding is, since feeder school students are expected to continue studying their 2nd language (and take content courses in that language), [b]they are also expected to take on a 3rd language at 6th grade,[/b] so they could be in beginner classes with new students.  And there will always have to be content courses at every grade taught in English, because I seriously doubt they can have 10th Grade Science or Math taught in Spanish AND French AND Mandarin.  Some classes will have to be in English so all students can take it, so the new students will be fine in those classes too.

It's an ambitious experiement (because the merging of 5 bilingual elementary charters to form a language-focused middle and high school is unprecedented), but it's exciting.  I know I probably sound like a booster or founder, but really I am someone who has a huge interest in it and hope it succeeds.[/quote]

You are not required to take a second language if you are coming from a feeder school.  It is an elective among many other subjects.  They do offer beginning language classes however to those who are new to foreign languages, as every child must be in at least one foreign language due to the IB component. [/quote]

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