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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I read the half dozen posts above. 10:18 talked about how some parents DC parents “advocate” for language learning to start before 8th grade. We wasted our time on such advocacy with other parents last year. My advice to any prospective BASIS parent who’s serious about raising bilingual children and teens is to think twice about enrolling in the first place because the program’s leadership isn’t on your wavelength in DC or Arizona. The new linguistic classes are just silly. [/quote]

Sounds like you didn't do your research before you enrolled your kid.  It seems pretty obvious that BASIS isn't an language-immersive/bilingual school.

This would be like someone saying, "I enrolled my kid at DCI.  I couldn't believe that my kid had to do extra work in a foreign language and study towards an International Baccalaureate, whatever that is.  I asked the administration to change this and they refused.  Unbelievable!"

Plus, you just sound entitled thinking that a school with over 660 kids needs to bend to your particular viewpoint for your child.  You realize that maybe not everyone thinks the same way?

Finally, if you think that school leadership isn't flexible, you must not have much experience with DC public schools.  We can't even get responses to our emails about lunch issues![/quote]

I enrolled my kid at Duke Ellington and they have to take all these arts classes. My kid went there from our language immersion, STEM middle school. I asked the administration to change the curriculum so it is language immersion and STEM focused with less emphasis on the arts, but they are COMPLETELY closed minded.  [/quote]

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