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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]WIS.

[b]Your DH will be deeply disappointed at the level of Spanish language instruction in younger grades. We heard a lot of Spanglish in the classrooms on our visit. We asked to speak with other Latins and the administration basically said there weren't any. They were pretty open that they have a hard time recruiting Hispanics and said something about Catholic schools being more culturally attractive. (?) They seemed very keen to have our bilingual from birth Latino child at their school. We appreciated their openness, but it was very awkward. We are a mixed-race family who would have fit in visually at Maret. But we were concerned our child would be the "only one" in his grade and were a bit skeptical.
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For early elementary, there is not alternative to immersion in the classroom and cultural exposure socially outside the classroom. For Spanish, in the city the only way to get both is either WIS or a DC public or charter immersion program.

As someone mentioned, Maret has the U.S. kind of visual diversity by race. Our family does, too. But for us, language and culture trumped skintone.

Congratulations on having excellent options.[/quote]

I assume that the bolded paragraph above refers to Maret and not WIS, correct?[/quote]
Correct. My apologies.[/quote]

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