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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC resident and parent who taught in an international school in Singapore before coming here.

I really wish that DC public schools would get serious about language immersion for languages other than Spanish or throw in the towel.

YuYing, the Chinese immersion program without a Chinese-speaking head or kids. Good Lord, what a joke. You can say it in one post, or 14 pages worth, one thread or many.[/quote]

Do most immersion program in this country have large numbers of kids who speak the target language at home?

As an English speaking parent, it wouldn't occur to me to put my kid in an ESL class.  I don't see how that would benefit my child.  Why would a Chinese speaking parent choose to put their kid in an environment that is designed for students who don't speak a word?  If you could do a true 2 way system, like DC Bilingual, where a significant portion of the class spoke Chinese, I'd feel differently, but I don't think there are enough Chinese families to make that possible in a system that doesn't allow admissions preference.  The only way you'd get a class that was 1/4 Chinese, for example, would be if 1/4 of the applicants were Chinese, and that seems unlikely.

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