Reply to Bilingual Kids in Language Immersion ES Programs, Which Programs Have Many & Strive to Attract Them?

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "Bilingual Kids in Language Immersion ES Programs, Which Programs Have Many & Strive to Attract Them?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]
I don't have a dog in this fight, and it is very clear to me that YY and Chinese families have what you call an existential conflict.  YY is a charter school.  As such, it is mandated to offer non-discriminatory admissions to everyone - from those born to two Chinese parents to those whose only exposure to China is wearing sneakers made there. That's one incontrovertible fact.

Presence of native speakers/native Chinese in an immersion language school improves acquisition of this language and culture.  That, too, is an incontrovertible fact.

These two facts are at loggerheads.  But one is law, and the other isn't.  So the non-law must yield to law.

I get what native Chinese families want for their children.  And I also get the restrictions YY must embrace.  It's an existential conflict.  [/quote]
The most intelligent comment on this thread.  The clash of civilizations inherent in this coflict does indeed appear intractable.  An obvious solution begs for consideration: start a kick ass DCPS Chinese immersion school that works like Oyster, only make it gifted and talented/test-in to promote far higher standards than YY can support across the board, for math, English AND Chinese.  Oh, and go with the immersion through MS, like the Canadians do.  Please, please do this DCPS, these YY threads are just depressing.  If I were a Chinese dialect-speaking immigrant, I wouldn't touch YY school with a 10-foot pole (and my family immigrated from the Balkans, making tribalism our middle name).

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics