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[quote=Anonymous]There is no reason for DCI to not allow bilingual kids to take advanced language classes once they lottery in.  The non-existence of a screening process for the language charters exists because 1) the charter board requires schools to either a) accept everyone or b) choose a cut off grade to not accept new students and consequently 2) the charters have to choose between possible attrition in the upper grades or making sure that all of the students enrolled have a similar foundation in the target language by the time the get to the upper grades and therefore meet their chartered goal of bilingualism for all students enrolled.

Now this could be controversial if kids that lottery in have no prior language instruction but for the low-SES kids that may already speak for example Spanish (maybe French) or were already enrolled at one of the 4 DCI schools, that wouldn't be an issue.  The question is how many low-SES kids without adequate language skills in the target language enroll through a lottery will they be able to catch up and enroll in advanced language classes?[/quote]

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