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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^You haven't got the full picture  The parents asked DCPS to deny Young a waiver to run with Latin for grades 2-5 from the fall.  What they asked for was a year in a holding pattern on Chinese, with the DCPS World Languages/Global Education and Brent's leadership waiting to make a decision on the language(s) to be taught.  They asked for a process affording significant community input, perhaps including a parent survey relating to language instruction, a new parent committee to consider the matter, and/or a series of community meetings.

Some of the parents, including me, wanted time to do research on how the JKLM schools have been meeting the ambiguous new World Languages requirement (e.g. Janney, which uses PTA funds to teach several languages before and after school in a more serious way than 45 minutes a week of one language, Spanish, at Brent; the Janney kids can get at least 2 hours per week of instruction).

The "renegade" parents didn't ask to jettison or adopt a specific language at all.  [/quote]
All this hoopla and intense feeling about a once a week for 45 minutes (maybe 35 times a year) program that most school districts would not include the parents in at all.[/quote]

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