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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not the person you're responding to but don't care for your snarky post. Your flippancy glosses over a real problem that's plain to any parents who looks.

Plenty of feeder students still bail for BASIS and the Latins after 4th grade, yeah. Parents see stronger academics than those at DCI and leave. It's easy to have language immersion regrets when the immersion stops at age 10 with no partial immersion to follow.

Maybe that's changing as DCI improves. Hope so. [/quote]

And I'm not the PP you're responding to (the one you found "snarky", although I think they matched the constant tone of the person they were responding to). Their main point is not changed at all by what you posted, meaning that the other poster saying there was only 1 5th grade class at YY some years (it's NOT every year) somehow is an indication of so many people not being happy with YY, and that is ridiculous.  I know parents who toured and applied for BASIS and another school that started middle school in 5th grade, and they were some of the most YY-positive parents we knew.  There are many legit reasons some parents who know DCI don't find it right for their kids, and then there are other parents who don't know much at all about DCI and just say random stuff.  Many here know most of what that other poster is saying about YY is wrong and sour grapes they've had for years (but not truth), and included in that is saying many families leave YY as if it's happening throughout PK-3-5th, when in fact YY has some of the lowest turnover in families of any DC charters and families do not leave regularly, it happens here and there but there is no flee-ing trends at YY.  The questions going into MS are normal and understandable, about DCI and about many DC middle schools.  Your point is not really being argued here although I do wonder: Why regret language immersion from PK-3 - 5th even if you do move to BASIS or somewhere else?  I'm thinking of the YY families I know who did that and they still sing all the praises of YY and tell others to go, that they won't regret it.[/quote]

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