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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]12:47, you really think this trip is "once in a lifetime?"

Isn't the purpose of sending your child to a Mandarin immersion program so they could live and work in China someday?

I expect my child will go to China someday, but I don't appreciate being told with whom and when.[/quote]

I'm not 12:47, but you're kidding, right?  How is a class trip in 5th grade not a "once in a lifetime" opportunity?

My junior year of high school I came on a Close-Up trip to Washington, DC for a week.  It had a tremendous impact on me, so much so that 20 years later I moved here, and now I can visit the all the important spots anytime I want.

Guess what?  That 1-week trip during my impressionable years was a defining once-a-lifetime opportunity.  I find it easy to believe that a trip to China (or Belize, or Moscow, or Amsterdam...) would have a profound impact on a young person's life, their interest in studying another language, their perspective on other cultures, and even on their ultimate choice in a career.

If you're so sure you're taking your child to China some day, that's wonderful.  Your child might be lucky despite having you as a parent.  In the meantime, what is wrong with you that you object to the idea of a group of students raising the money to go to China - Oh! Oh my! - even if they didn't ask your permission?

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what does this trip have to do with this thread!?!? can you start your own thread please?[/quote]

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