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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I like it when DC residents complain about half assed ed programs for their tax dollars and organize to challenge dumb policies. Nobody should be forced to move in a Metro center for the type of school that's available in jurisdictions just a few miles away. It's a shame that there aren't any immersion programs with set asides for native speakers in this city other than for Spanish at Oyster and Adams. If DCI has been set up as a DCPS-DCPCS hybrid program, which was seriously considered years ago (DCPS said no, not DCPCS), they could have had a lottery for native speakers to attract native speakers of all three target languages. The small number of Chinese immigrants in the city isn't the crux of the problem. It's also a shame that BASIS and Latin can't give admissions tests (like the middle school magnets my spouse and I attended in different East Coast cities).

Blaming individuals who seek best ed practices for not moving as they seek common sense solutions isn't the answer. [/quote]

The thing is, as a native speaker, what these people want is not just native speaker preference, they want the schools to match the pressure cooker environment of their hukao or whatever. I would prefer not to have that. I took my first streaming exam at 6 years old, then had them roughly every 4 years to place again. For university I had to place in the top 30 or so to do CS. In my parents generation you didn’t even get to choose your major- if you were in the top decile or so you went to med school. 
By the time I hit the equivalent of high school I knew 4-5 kids who’d had complete nervous breakdowns.

I think schools could be a little more rigorous here don’t get me wrong, but I think people who think the pressure cooker system is good for kids are a little ridiculous, and if they think their kids will come out on top they’re naive. [/quote]

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