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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whatever. The kid is young.  He will get over it.  We are talking about first grade, after all, not switching majors in your third year of undergrad. Nothing wasted because he got his brain functioning in a unique way.[/quote]

It just seems pointless.  He may get over it, but what has he gained?  Nothing.  Because if you don't continue with Mandarin and that is what he would be speaking all day @ 100%.  You have nothing to show for it at the end.[/quote]

But with that logic, you'd be devastated at all the silverware that a Montessori child has polished in their classroom without a silverware set to show for it at Thanksgiving dinner. Or all the jogging without going anywhere, or without later signing up for a marathon.

I would love to sign up my child for a year of Mandarin immersion, and would follow-up with some other contact with the language, if I were so lucky to get my DC into YY, but somehow couldn't keep her there beyond a year. In my family's situation, I would enroll my DC, and in a couple of years hope her sibling gets in, and keep them there for as long as it's open. it would probably alter our life in a big way, since it would refocus our traveling to an area of the world I don't know, and we would probably change our criteria for who we rent our spare room to, and our reason for renting it. Instead of money to pay for child care, it would become a source of language and cultural exposure, and a source of money for international travel to support my kids' language immersion.

But there you go, dcum has me daydreaming. Back to the reality of the odds and the likely choice between the local dcps and private.

Now, I completely understand how families flaking out at K can be detrimental to the school, and to other students, especially if the charters can't allow test-in new students. That clearly is something that needs to be tweaked.

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I am impressed by your open-mindedness, but I think a lot of people are more purposeful than this when it comes to educating their children.

What you describe sounds more common for a spouse, e.g., you never planned to marry any ethnicity in particular, and it just so happens that you fell in love with a chinese person in grad school, so you ended up learning chinese and traveling to china a lot. I do see a lot of that.

But once you are married your family heritage is pretty much determined. It is relatively unusual for someone to be as open minded as you, like, "I am not chinese and don't speak a word, nor does my spouse, but because of some random lottery result one year in one of America's worst public school systems, we decided to invest 110% in us and our kid learning chinese and traveling to china a lot for the rest of our lives".

I think most people would say, f*** it, we're moving to Bethesda, before sending their kid to chinese immersion at a DC charter.

BTW not to get personal but I am guessing that both you and your spouse are English-dominant. If one of you was from another culture with another language dominance, I think you would be much more intentional about language education for your kids. Not asking you to share your personal details, this is just what I would expect if I met someone who wanted immersion but didn't care what language.

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