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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When students (and/or their younger siblings) don’t have a guaranteed feed to DCI they could be more likely to peel off for Latin and BASIS (which DO offer sibling preference) at 5th grade.  This is neither good for the feeders (because it encourages backfilling with students who may or may not have any experience in the language, in the absence of any proficiency test for entry at elementary charter schools) nor for DCI (because students with potentially less foreign language experience come in from the feeders and siblings are less likely to be able to reinforce the language at home if they are not subsequently admitted).  To date, DCI does not have plans to duplicate or expand its capacity.  That may change, but it seems shortsighted for the feeders to have expanded without also being able to expand the seats they provide to DCI.[/quote]

Students already peel off for Latin and Basis, nothing new.  If some more do, it’s not a problem.  The Spanish track will always be filled with feeder kids once the hit when the feeder expansion starts.  Same with French since Stokes expanded.

DCI has many levels for languages so non-feeder kids with no language background just gets placed at the beginner level.  It’s not like they put kids of different abilities together.

DCI doesn’t have plans to expand yet but it doesn’t mean they won’t in the future as demand increases.  They already have the seat approval. [/quote]

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