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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Chinese at DCI deserves to be on life support. The academics at both YY and DCI are lackluster, including the Mandarin. When most of the parents jump on board YY more for a school with an at-risk participation in the single digits than for the language immersion, what can we expect 8-12 years later at DCI?  Great results and many kids still on board?  Obviously not.[/quote]

If YY gets the two middle school feeds, Latin Cooper will accrue the benefit.  Sounds like win-win.[/quote]

Its not fair to kids NOT in the YY feeder to get a shot at Latin.  Why should kids get a select few slots into YY, then slide into Latin if they were never serious about chinese to begin with.[/quote]

Because the arrangement would be great for both YY and Latin, co-located on the same campus in the future.  No need for the DCPCSB to cut off its nose to spite its face on this one. DC hasn't been serious about Chinese to begin with. Parents can't be blamed.  YY's leadership asked the city for a preference for native speakers way back in 2009. They were denied. With hardly any native speakers, Chinese at YY can't work well. [/quote]

So shut down YY since you said Chinese “can’t work well” since there are so few natives speakers at the school.   Why does DCI even offer Chinese when there is more demand than capacity for Spanish seats?  Sorry , just cause some 3 year hit the lottery jackpot and got into YY, doesn’t mean they get TWO choices for two of the most coveted charter schools for middle and high. [/quote]

DCI wouldn't exist as it does today if one of the founders of YY hadn't wanted to make sure her own kids had a path to continue Chinese after 5th grade. The fact that PARENTS who were trying to figure out continuing languages collaborated with other school leaders and educators to FORM DCI as a language school with options is how it came into existence in the first place.

For someone to be pissed about it now and say "You don't get 2 chances at languages when there are more needing Spanish seats" is ignorant and absurd.  But most importantly, if you don't like it, GO START YOUR OWN language-focused middle and high schools and exclude Chinese as a language.  You do NOT get to demand a founding language track gets eliminated because you don't like your options.  [/quote]

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