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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just pulled my kid from Arabic  because he hated it.  He had taken five years of it. He's in 5th grade.

He hated it so much. And now his regular school has stepped up in difficulty and he has ADHD. I want him to be able to focus on regular school and I don't want to add the pressure of nightly Arabic homework.

I'm sad he's missing out on this opportunity, but we have other priorities right now.[/quote]

I'm the PP who is raising children trilingually with Russian and Arabic. For whatever reason, our experience has been that the Arabic instruction in the area is very, very lacking. What schools do exist are either too religiously influenced, or if they aren't, they are haphazard, or if they aren't that, they are too rigid and structured.  It's strange because there are so many Arabic speakers in the area but there really isn't a good, solid market of preschool and early-elementary age immersive education to serve them.  I don't really know what the reasons are - maybe too many Arabic-speaking families prefer to keep kids at home till school age, or maybe there isn't a home country tradition of strong early education, or who knows.

So different from the Russian-language education market where so many good, pedagogically sound options are available, especially in VA.  I talk about this with my DH all the time and it truly boggles the mind. Our DS is in a Saturday program but I can't say it's a huge hit so if I don't see much progress this year, I will consider pulling him and just getting a tutor. [/quote]

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