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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And you're telling us this as an...Asian immigrant parent?

We think it's easier to live within a short walk of Metro stations serving various lines, as well as Union Station, than in MoCo.  The location of my office has shifted from VA, to MD, to DC and back to VA since I started with my Federal agency.  If I didn't live downtown, my  headaches (for commute and career) would have been far greater than those associated with having to drive to Rockville on a weekend afternoon to shop at my favorite Asian grocery store and send my children to a heritage language school.  My children speak my Asian language well, in large part because it's easy to attract au pairs who speak it to our lively urban neighborhood (unlike drawing them to blah suburban MoCo). Plus, we can easily hop on buses and trains to travel to the nation's largest Chinatowns, in NYC, where some of our relatives reside, unlike our MoCo brethren.

Can't see us in DC public HS. We're not OK with Honors for All, schools that force a dead Romance language (Latin) on all the students and only teach Asian languages at a beginner level, and any program where Asian participation is in the single digits.  We're hardly alone on all these "extremely important" issues. [/quote]

It's true that DCPS and DCPCS leaders don't tend to think about what Asian parents are looking for in public schools, other than maybe STEM at BASIS.  Not yet anyway.[/quote]

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