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[quote=Anonymous]The "assumption" is made because the language skills of so many students in the upper grades in DC charter immersion programs, and on the "advanced" tracks at DCI, are weak, even for Spanish.  Parents are told not to worry, the kids get enough language exposure and instruction at school to speak "proficiently."  It just isn't true.  MV has been letting in 3rd graders without background in Spanish.  YY has never even bothered to send school info home in Chinese, or bothered to hire a Chinese-speaking head who can communicate effectively with native-speaking relatives of students in Cantonese or Mandarin (the two main dialects of Chinese spoken in the District).  Unfortunately, there's a strong jokey element to language "immersion" in DC public schools.  Without adults in the home who speak these languages year in and year out, and are determined to speak them to children and won't permit the children to answer in English, the results are only so good.  Parents claim they're good, but they aren't.[/quote]

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