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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]16:42.  I understand what you are doing, and I think it is great to choose a school and back it.  It is incredibly rude, however, to come in and laugh out loud at the the concerns that others who have been sorting through this system for some time raise.[/quote]

My apologies that you were offended by my post.  Actually, I feared being labeled the sock puppet since it's clear many DCUM'ers shun those who have something positive to say about SELA (hence my "lol").  It wasn't meant to belittle the DCUM struggle with sorting through the system for some time.

Now that I understand the significance of DCI.....

It seems like many posters feel that feeding into DCI is ideal.  Are there any posters who don't care whether their language immersion school feeds into DCI or not?  As someone who took Spanish from 6th grade through my last year of undergraduate school, I understand the importance of learning a language and being able to use it in "real life".  Unfortunately, I can barely hold a conversation in Spanish now.  I am nowhere as fluent as I used to be when I was younger.  Of course, this is my fault for not keeping up with using Spanish as often as I did in school.  So personally speaking, it is a great idea to have your school feed into DCI but really at the end of the day, what are your plans (or child's plans) with the language that they would have learned in school?  Do I feel that having years of Spanish helped me to be where I am now?  Not really.  I could have easily used Rosetta Stone lol (not meant to be offensive at all).

Maybe my real question is, other than just learning another language because it's awesome to learn another language in gerneral, how much emphasis should we really put on language immersion schools?  Why are they so important to you compared to other schools?  Are they more important than schools that focus on STEM or the arts?  Why do you feel that your children need to take Spanish or whatever language from the time they can talk through high school and beyond aside from the proven fact that learning another language can stimulate a child's development?

I guess I won't see any posts from real Sela parents after all.  After everything I read since my post, I probably wouldn't admit that I was a Sela supporter either.  Some (not all) of you guys on both sides of the discussion are something else!  I guess even as adults we can't disagree without name calling and being insensitive.

Thanks again!

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