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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one actually compares Sela with the DCI feeders. And last I heard, they arent doing full immersion anymore.

All of the other feeders do it. [/quote]

Either someone thinks they're doing bilingual English/Hebrew meetings at a DCI feeder, or the person I replied to was actually comparing Sela and Yu Ying.

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Sela is separate from the DCI feeders.

Among the DCI feeders, only YyY does not routinely communicate with its extended school community in two languages.

DCI communicates with its parents and prospective parents in English. DCI is also very clear that DCI is not an immersion school, so perhaps they think that makes it ok. [/quote]

Wait.  DCI isn't a language immersion school?  Then what is it, and what's the point?[/quote]

It is a IB school with advanced language studies (or beginner language, if you are entering new at 6th or 9th).

Students take a minimum of 2 classes in their target language in middle school (social studies + their language) and sometimes an elective will be in their language if the teacher is fluent in their target language -- for the other students that elective will be in English.

It's not like the feeders which teach everything in the target language, depending on the day or the week. But that immersion approach ends for all the students after 5th grade.

This shouldn't come as a surprise -- read their charter application and their website.
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Sounds great but "advanced language studies" doesn't do it for me when I speak in good Mandarin to neighborhood DCI 8th graders.  They've been studying Chinese via 50% immersion since age 5 or 6 yet can't speak or understand nearly as well as my own 5 year old. To my ear, the ""advanced" kids sound like beginners. YY parents like to say, oh the fluency issues will get sorted out once the kids who started in full immersion PreS3 make it to DCI, or once the kids grow up and go live in China. Right.  [/quote]

Can you please send your social media account name? I'm concerned about this as well... [/quote]

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