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I think foreign languages are great.

But seriously, why should that be a priority for a struggling school system? I don't get adding Chinese to a struggling school.[/quote]

Thomson has had Chinese for a while -- its not a new addition. The school is in an area that has a relatively high (for DC) concentration of Chinese residents, and I'm pretty sure the school has a higher percentage of Asian (likely Chinese) students than any other DCPS. I suspect the Chinese instruction (limited though it is) helps retain those Asian students, who as a group perform better on DC-CAS than most of the other students.[/quote]

okay, that makes more sense. [/quote]

Few of the East Asian immigrant families stay at Thomson and the once or twice a week Mandarin instruction is no more than window dressing.  Many of the kids are taught Chinese dialects at home (Fujian, Cantonese, Toisonese etc.).  They will learn Mandarin easily later.  Most of the Asian families bail for MoCo by 2nd or 3rd grade. We meet them at our heritage language school in Rockville on weekends and they tell us how relieved they are to be gone, despite commute hassles to downtown places of work.  [/quote]

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