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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most families don't supplement or care about aiming high. [/quote]

Most can’t afford to supplement in the ways mentioned.  Do you think only rich parents care about their kids?  [/quote]

So why choose immersion/partial immersion if you can't afford for your kids to learn to speak a language not spoken at home?  Arguably, low SES DC families shouldn't be encouraged to do this.

I'm not convinced that many of the "rich" parents at DCI are remotely serious about immersion, or academics in general.  Their kids coast, fine by DCI. No advanced/honors/intensified classes in middle school (outside math and, supposedly, language) makes for an easy ride, particularly in 6th and 7th grades.  Things are better in high school, but not by leaps and bounds.  Plenty of unrealistic parents onboard at DCI.
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Why dint you spend 50k a year to send your kid to WIS then.  Oh, I forgot.  Many families there don’t supplement either.

You are totally delusional to think there is a 100% or anywhere close to that with families supplementing, even in private.

It’s sad that you think immersion is only for the rich.  Immersion is offered to everyone.  Some kids might not be fluent in the language, some families might not be able to supplement.  It doesn’t mean they don’t benefit from immersion.  And language tracks at DCI so kids are placed in the appropriate class

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Let's disagree without being disagreeable. This trilingual European parent knows that immersion language study only pays off if schools and families take it seriously, because that's the prevailing view where I come from, supported by a large corpus of academic lit.  Unfortunately, immersion language study for children that isn't taken seriously invariably comes at the expense of development in the mother tongue. Not a great idea. In Europe, kids either learn languages through full-fledged two-way immersion (not just learning from teachers, but from peers and an ethnic community) or learn languages only after the mother tongue has been learned well, at age 9 or 10. Sadly, the jokey one-way "immersion" studies offered in most DCI feeders and at DCI doesn't represent educational best practices. Sorry, but claiming that one-way immersion works well on DCUM won't change things. Our kid was placed in the "appropriate class", the most advanced track for the target language at DCI, where most of the students could hardly speak the target language.  We soon left for true immersion in a different program. DC public schools could do better. [/quote]

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