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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe my head is in the sand but we are loving it at DCI. Second year there with a 7th grader from Spanish language feeder.  Our DC is challenged and interested, making friends, likes school for the most part.  DC is a high achiever, rule follower type. Advanced academically (math and English), we are happy with how things are going. A few hiccups with what seem to be mediocre teachers, or ones who struggle to connect. Anyway, we aren’t supplementing, aren’t playing lottery for other options. Even if Language immersion isn’t top notch, it is better than no immersion, and it is important to maintain the learning in the second language.  We also do not have the resources to even consider private, so folks that have that option, I can understand looking into it.  But we feel good about it, it is absolutely a good choice to have!

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You must be on the Spanish track, or on the Mandarin or French track but don't speak either language.  Disagree that 2nd rate "immersion" is better than no immersion.  That's not what the research says.  Strong immersion is better than no immersion.  [b]Half-baked immersion can be worse, because you risk having the kid turn out so-so in two languages.[/b] [/quote]

We're at a DCI feeder and this is exactly our concern. We invested years for DC to become fluent in Mandarin and were so excited about this prospect. We're realizing too late that not only is the school not doing a great job with Mandarin fluency, but the ELA and Math teaching is pretty abysmal. We feel like we sacrificed a lot (i.e. ELA) to get the fluent Mandarin, but then we didn't get the fluent Mandarin. DC gets good grades in Chinese, but we can tell the fluency isn't there, especially with Chinese writing.

Now we're struggling with the decision whether to send DC to DCI or cut bait. It would be hard to just end the Chinese education after so much sacrifice, but we don't want to waste DC's MS and HS education just because we made a poor choice for ES education. And we also don't know enough about DCI to gauge whether it's better than the feeder school or just more of the same.

Thanks to those previous posters who have been honest about the challenges. It's very helpful.[/quote]

Have you had your kid tested outside of school? How are their PARCC scores?

You could always pay to have them take a Woodcock-Johnson achievement test, or when they reach 5th, the SSAT and see if they really are behind from the 'abysmal' ELA and Math teaching.

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