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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Not going to happen, it's against the law. Latin manages just fine, as does Yu Ying. Basis is not special, sorry. [/b]

PP is right.  It isn't going to happen, not with a DC charter.  Latin's hs does manage just fine if you aren't shooting for INTEL prizes and blue chip colleges (explaining why we bailed after 8th).

But I'm with some other PPs in doubting that there's no music left the write on a ms academic magnet, any scope to tweak the law on charters ever, or any chance that BASIS will change its tune on admissions by hs.  The lobby for a rigorous elite ms/hs where kids are both screened for aptitude and attitude, and given targetted prep to help them succeed (as Basis is providing), is gaining momentum.  Other threads have discussed the issue.  More are poppling up.

A friend (who happens to be, dare I mention it, AA) turned down YY.  He observed that the kids speak English when teachers aren't around and went with Mandarin immersion in Rockville, where nearly half the kids speak Chinese at home and often speak it outside class (because they're guess what, Chinese Americans and immigrants or guest workers).  Everybody in the know doesn't think YY is fine, just those who enroll their kids and keep them there.[/quote]

Wow. Duh. Just like kids who speak spanish as their first language speak spanish to each other when teachers aren't around and at home. Yu Ying can't offer preference to Chinese speakers and there is but a small native Chinese population in DC. So are you implying that the school shouldn't exist? That there is no merit to teaching Chinese to kids in DC? The kids at YY speak more Chinese than any other kids in DC who aren't Chinese. So what's your problem with it? Do you think everyone should move to Rockville who wants Chinese? [/quote]

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