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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I might ask why it bothers you that other people have different priorities than you do.[/quote]

Was just curious.[/quote]

I don't believe that it's "just curious", I think taking the time to ask on DCUM goes beyond that.  Are you a parent and wondering if you're missing something in all the hoopla as you consider schools for your kids?  Wondering what the big deal is because you'll need to make a choice eventually and want to understand the hoopla more?

None of that changes the answers we give you,, but just wanted to point out that I can't imagine bothering to ask the question if it isn't more than just general curiosity.

All that said, for our family it's about expanding our (and our kids') world views.  I learned French in school, and if not for that probably would have never sought to spend time in France when I got older.  Doesn't mean I never would have gone, but I will always know a bit more about French culture and music and geography because I studied the language than I would have if I hadn't had that interest.  Plus, I grew up in NYC, which when I was growing up if you'd asked me to draw a map of the world it would have had a giant circle labled "NYC", some vague sense of where Canada and Mexico were, and that woulda been it.  Starting to learn French in 5th grade was the beginning of being aware that there was more to the world than NYC.  Maybe that's a unique experience to me, but that's why I value learning another language.

Immersion... I have to be honest that it was a strategic decision for us involving our beliefs about college admissions and career choices.  I don't know that if it wasn't for those things whether we would have sought out actual immersion vs. just learning as I did as a class in a non-immersion school.[/quote]

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