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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow. Love how they copied DCI but in true DCPS inequity, they get to demand that anybody coming into the dual language program has to be at grade level in the target language, while DCI has to accommodate and plan for kids who lottery in with no language background. Just another example of the bullshit that goes on in this city....[/quote]

I am confused here - no snark at all - I guess I don't get the DCI model as well as I thought I did.  Don't you think most MS spots will be taken by students coming in from the feeder schools?  Isn't that part of the frenzy to get your kid into MV, etc in the early grades so they are all squared away?

And, wouldn't it be crazy for a family to enroll their kid in a language immersion school in later years when they don't know the language?  Talk about setting your kid up for, if not failure, significant challenge.  How many non-feeder-school students do they anticipate getting in via lottery?

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quite a few---there is such a dearth of good quality middle schools in DC that parents will send their kids to an immersion school with no immersion. DCI HAS to take in lottery kids and can't insist that applicants have adequate language skills (unlike DCPS which can do whatever it wants) so it is forced to have multiple language levels. [/quote]

as the feeder schools mature do you anticipate this being as much of an issue?  are they building DCI to be bigger than its feeder patterns?  If so, I'm not sure how upset one can get since they are building it for more students.  If not, I guess it's showing a challenge in how they retain these students.

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