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[quote=Anonymous]Same poster as above - re: DCI and feeding into it, while I can understand how some at DCI feeders would say "the more languages the merrier, why not Hebrew?", that is still a very uninformed view if you really look at what it takes to expand a language at a school trying to do what DCI is trying to do.  You need a steady, major stream of students speaking that language and another steady stream of students from other schools who would choose Hebrew as their 2nd language in order to support the staffing and curriculum expansion that would be involved.  There is absolutely no evidence that Hebrew would be supported in either of these ways at DCI.

And as an IB school focused on languages, the founders have to think seriously about which languages they include from the other end: which languages will make the school most competitive?  Hebrew does not even get on the radar until they've looked at Arabic, Russian and maybe a few other languages.  It's not just about which languages would be "nice" to have, it's about which languages will actually enhance and raise the competitiveness of the school and advantage the students.  The founders of DCI have to keep their eyes on all of those issues when thinking of how to spend precious resources expanding the program, although right now they shouldn't even have "expansion" on their radar, since "opening" and "running" is the immediate mega challenge.[/quote]

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