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[quote=Anonymous]For the most part, the way the DC charters popular with UMC families teach languages rivals DCPS for "pathetic and anemic." For example, for 13 years, the YuYing HoS didn't speak Mandarin above the most basic level and had never lived or worked in a Chinese-speaking country. The result was that she effectively did no outreach to the ethnic native-speaking community (mostly Cantonese speakers). As a YY parent and native speaker, I heard a few of her Chinese teachers mock her in their dialects right in front of her on a number of occasions. Other examples, BASIS permits no language study before 8th grade, and then only at the beginning level and Latin refuses to teach Spanish. DCI effectively attracts no speakers to its Chinese and French tracks and doesn't offer summer immersion programs to students. Over the years on DCUM, when posters complained about these embarrassing failings, they were roundly clobbered, told to shut up. [/quote]
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