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[quote=Anonymous]I'm another parent trying to choose between "Sp and Ch."

After reading the posts here, and on other YY threads, we're going for Spanish for our 3 year-old, if we can get into one of the immersion programs.

Listening to YY parents talk about wanting to avoid weak IB schools as their primary motivation for most getting involved, calling those who live the culture and language names, and "just another sub-group" in DC that shouldn't be catered to, doesn't do it for me.

If parents at the Spanish immersion schools were describing Mexican-Americans, the dominant Spanish-speaking immigrant group in the country, in similar terms, I'd also be concerned.  And if many parents were defending principals who don't speak Spanish, I'd be worried.  Finally, if Spanish-speaking parents were posting about feeling like token ethnics at schools offering "Spanish for white people. (19:13) I wouldn't be impressed either.

Ech!  YY doesn't sound "fabulous," it sounds phony and hostile to most native speakers of the language in the city, the length of the wait list not withstanding.

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