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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They are tracking under-achieving students!

AND THIS IS WRONG!!!!!!!  What part of this don't you get?![/quote]

Scenario - Of the 35 students in the 3rd grade class (21 of whom are AA) some are floundering in both English and Chinese.  Rather than allow them to continue to flounder in the 50% immersion class, the school creates another class that is not immersion (although still teaches Mandarin).  But all of the students in the class happen to be AA (although the immersion class is still majority AA, apparently).  Some apparent concerns are:

1.  [i]YY is intentionally creating a class bkack kids to give them an inferior education - targeting AA kids. [/i] If true, this is terrible.  But it also appears to be rank speculation, and without evidence of wrongdoing, I don't know that this type of allegation should be seriously entertained.  
2.  [i]Creating a non-immersion class is OK, but not if all the students in it are AA.[/i]  This strikes me a the silliest complaint.  If a non-immersion class is OK in theory, why is it not OK if all the students who need it are AA?   
3. [i]Tracking under-achieving students (of any race) is wrong.  [/i]That wasn't my first reaction, but I'm curious as to why you believe this.  I'd prefer the  underachieving students get a instruction they require, even if it means they are taken out of the immersion class.  [/quote]

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