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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This debate rages on because people attended the feeders with vastly different expectations and motivations.

Most people I know with older students at DCI (born 2002-2004) chose a feeder because they were avoiding their IB DCPS and couldn’t afford a private. The chance to give their child an immersion education was icing on the cake but mostly they wanted a decent school.

The families who sought out immersion because they wanted foreign language instruction over all else - many of whom had other sound DCPS or private options - are more unhappy. [/quote]

Sort of agree. Don't think the unhappy parents wanted foreign language instruction above all else. I think they wanted serious academics across the board, and didn't find them.The reasons they haven't found first-rate academics are debatable. But pretty clearly, when a school's board can't be bothered to hire senior admins with a command of the target language (or experience living or working in an area where the language is spoken widely) something is wrong.

The unhappy parents could easily have seen through the smoke screen before enrolling. I remember going to a YY open house where the parents sitting next to me left early, although they had a winning lottery #. They left after discovering that the principal spoke little Chinese, and that no part of the presentation, and none of the printed materials being handed out, had been translated into Mandarin. They said "joke for Chinese" and promptly walked out.[/quote]

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