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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The suburbs have sizeable bilingual immigrant communities that don't speak Spanish, unlike DC.  Suburban immigrants lobby to have their languages taught in public middle schools and high schools. I have a sibling w/a spouse from Korea. They live in Fairfax and send their kids to heavily Asian Oakton HS, which teaches not just Mandarin, but Korean, Vietnamese and Japanese.  The best big suburban high schools generally teach all 7 AP languages:  French, Spanish, German, Italian, Latin, Japanese, Chinese.  They also might teach Russian, Arabic and one or two more Asian languages.

DC public schools tend not to get pushback if they only offer French and Spanish, and possibly Mandarin (JR, Walls, DCI, BASIS). To my knowledge, on Latin teaches Arabic. None of them bother with AP German, right.  Just no political incentive to offer more languages.[/quote]

+1. 2% of DCPS is Asian, and likely similar in DCPCS though I can't find it via a quick Google search. Compared to 16% of MCPS and 27% of FCPS. If anything, DC schools should offer Amharic since DC is the second largest Ethiopian population outside of Africa.[/quote]

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