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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks for sharing.

Now we get it. You guys don't want to work that hard, so you find a ready excuse in claiming that the path to fluent Mandarin for young Americans would jeopardize high attainment in English and math.

We sympathize, knowing how studying German, French and English coterminously torpedo math learning in Swiss elementary schools, and how studying Swedish, Finnish and English derail math progress for Finnish children. Shame on those European parents, for screwing their kids up like that.[/quote]

Are you seriously comparing kids in these countries to DC, where the majority of students are black/Latino, come from generations of poverty, and face huge obstacles from basically birth?

Here's the rub, actually.  YY detractors keep bringing up what works well for immersion schools in CA, Northern European countries, etc., but that's apples and oranges.  YY would've never gotten approved as a charter in the first place if they didn't make a strong argument for first and foremost serving the kids who already form the majority of students in the system.  You can't expect them to every change their mission mid-stream.  The repeated insistence that they should seems to me a misunderstanding of how public schools work in DC.

As I said a few pages back (I'm the PP with a kid in another language immersion school with lots of native speakers), perhaps outreach to native speakers should continue, but I'm frankly not encouraged about how those efforts will go, given what's been said here re: their skepticism and scoffing about YY not being a school for them.[/quote]

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