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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, but the Spanish immersion charters still attract a good many native speaking students, and strive to meet their particular academic needs. The Mundo Verde student body is thought to be at least one quarter native speakers. YY has never had more than 1 or 2 kids per grade who are truly native speakers (equally at home with Chinese and English, or speaking more Chinese than English), literally a handful of more than 500 students. [/quote]

But that's due to the demographics of DC.  How many Chinese speaking 3 year olds are there in DC?  [/quote]

There are some (one in my house) but their parents rarely put in for the YY lottery.

Sure, YY parents (at least 98% of whom aren't fluent in any dialect of Chinese) who stay with the program are happy. But many have real concerns about the way DCI is shaping up. They should be concerned. There's only so much you can do with MS partial language immersion without any native speakers. There isn't a single one at DCI on a Chinese track. Also, there is effectively no academic tracking in science, social studies or English in a school with a high needs mostly Latino population. [/quote]

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