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[quote=Anonymous]Long term, I think all the language charters are going to need to resolve the issue of having native-speaking kids who want to enroll at the higher grades.

The problem hasn't cropped up too much because most of the charters are still new and will admit students up to grade 2.  But what about after grade 2?  That's when they see attrition in the higher grades.  Meanwhile, there are fluent-speaking kids in the target language who want to attend but simple can't get in.

Yu Ying has has already had the issue a few times, and all the other language charters will too in a year or two.  This issue will only get bigger, and simply screams out for a solution.

Arlington VA requests that students above grade 2 have a "background" in Spanish before admitting to the bilingual Key Elementary.   Or perhaps simple administering a test would be simpler and fairer.  Whatever the way, a solution MUST be found.  With the transient population of DC and so many new 3rd, 4th and 5th graders moving in, it is crazy not to offer these older kids the option of attending a language charter. [/quote]

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