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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This comment below makes no sense to me. I don't get why people *choose* Latin v. DCI if the foreign language their kid's been studying is so important. Did they not know what they were doing when moving their child to Latin? Personally, as a Latin parent, I would like the school to offer Spanish as one of the languages. But I don't understand how you leave an immersion/bilingual school for Latin and then are frustrated when you could've just gone to DCI.

<<Grand! But a good many 5th graders arrive practically fluent in Spanish and Chinese yet the school can't be bothered to so much as help them retain their skills, let alone build on them before 8th grade (by which time the skills have been badly eroded). Logic dictates that this is a waste.>> [/quote]

Please, these are DC public schools, programs in one of the lowest-performing urban school districts in the nation.

You must know that most of the parents who choose language immersion do it mainly to stay in their DC communities because their IB elementary schools are iffy or disastrous.  They choose Latin because their IB middle schools are the same.  It's very difficult to get into DCI for 6th grade on the Spanish track, no easier than getting a spot at Latin without sibling preference.[/quote]

They can take Spanish at thie IB middle schools. Problem solved.[/quote]

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