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[b](Latin in private MS is, obviously, is how DC came to be doing Latin 3 as a Moco freshman, which otherwise wouldn't have been possible.)[/b]

Exactly.  And while your kids in private may have not become fluent taking a language three times a week, I assume they were exposed to the language, the culture, food, and music of the various countries that speak the language they were studying.  Mine are.

And since you have a child in a MoCo immersion program, you understand how difficult it is to get into those programs, as so many families are vying for limited spaces.  So my point stands.  There is virtually no foreign language in MoCo public, until HS apparently.  And how many times a week do they take a language in HS?  Enough for fluency?  [/quote]

My point was: my kids took language in private ES and learned virtually nothing besides colors and body parts. Heck, I did language in private ES back in the day, and I learned virtually nothing. Furthermore, what you call "exposure" to the language, food and cultures wasn't very deep in ES. In any case, kids get deeper, more consistent "exposure" to other cultures when the more intensive language classes start in middle school.

I'm actually a great believer in starting languages young. I don't think either private or public schools do this well.

In fact, MoCo's immersion programs are the best approach I've seen, to language at least (we might find more common ground on the general badness of the rest of MoCo's ES curriculum). I see you made a valiant, but ultimately unsuccessful, attempt to write the immersion programs off as "virtually no foreign language in MoCo." No, your point doesn't still stand.

To answer your question: high school language classes are intense anywhere - in public schools and, I'm guessing, in private schools. But even this isn't really enough for fluency. I didn't become fluent until I lived abroad for a year. There have been other threads on how immersion is really the only way to reach fluency, if you do a search of DCUM.[/quote]

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