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[quote=Anonymous]In the broader context of this discussion, I don't think it's in a nation's interest nor is it a policy imperative to provide taxpayer funded "expat" education. (That is what tax breaks for diplomats and support to foreign embassies etc. are supposed to fund.) I know of no other country (except maybe Germany) that has a policy to do so. What is in our national and certainly DC interest is to make sure a broad swath of students are world-culturally literate and able to converse in or at least understand other than English. Language immersion offerings are one avenue among many to accomplish this. One can argue that this brings about some need to attract native speakers into these programs but I'm actually not all that convinced this is so. As the previous statement of a presumably Chinese expat exemplifies and my own expat experience tells me, the needs and reasons to pursue an immersion school environment may be wholly different, no better, no worse, but different. [/quote]

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