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So I think people should think about the coherent future of a dual language program where the entering students are generally not bilingual. A program like this has to be skewed toward function or ends up futile. Privileging the minority language is important.

This is something that the bilingual charters struggle with as their popularity increases. Look at Yu Ying and Stokes French posts for how much families complain about the quality of the language program because there aren’t sufficient native speakers. A by-right bilingual school HAS to have a language preference in early grades to let in OOB families and sufficient dominant families, or it will be impossible to maintain the quality of the program.[/quote]

That's not what this is.  Bancroft was not created to be a dual language school because that was the desired pedagogy, like a YY or Stokes.  Bancroft was designated dual language out of necessity because at the time of designation, the majority of the kids attending were from low income (thus the Title I) Latino families.  Powell was the same.  Giving an  OOB preference for Spanish speakers in ECE allowed DCPS to essentially funnel all of its ESL kids into a select few elementaries in the name of efficiency---otherwise how to account for the fact that Powell was majority Latino while Lewis (formerly West) stayed majority AA?[/quote]

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