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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These threads are dumb because it's just people justifying decisions they already made and can't reverse. [/quote]

I agree. Not everyone wants the IB diploma and not every kid is going to be good at foreign languages and stem. I think Latin looks great for the kid who needs small class sizes and less focus on things like foreign languages and math. I really don’t understand this hostility. [/quote]

The thing is all the students at DCI who come up through the charter feeders aren't good at foreign languages or STEM either. Many of the UMC DCI families who have the means to take language immersion seriously don't and never have, particularly on the Chinese and French tracks. When DCI HS students travel to China as a group, it's almost always the first time they've been there, although plenty of these families routinely travel abroad. They vacation in Europe or the Caribbean or Mexico. Why bother with Chinese or China when you don't have to? We know a couple Latin students who speak and understand better Chinese than most DCI students their ages on the advanced Chinese track. Fact is, both Latins, BASIS and Walls are much more accessible to Capitol Hill than DCI and many Ward 6 parents with lottery luck take spots in these programs for this reason as much as anything else. [/quote]

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