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[quote=Anonymous]You are right, PP.

We speak a language that's taught at a DC charter immersion school (which our children do not attend). We work hard, day in and day out, ensure that our kids are growing up bilingual, but don't see strong commitment to bilingual education on the part of most of the parents we talk to whose children attend the school. Parents don't seem to have a clue how exposure to the language the children will need for them to grow up bilingual (e.g. they routinely allowing kids to watch entertainment in English, when they could require them to watch in the language the kids study, or not allow them to watch). The conventional widows is that the instruction the kids get at this school in the language will do the trick to ensure that they emerge as bilingual by the upper grades.

To our ears, many upper grades kids who attend the school speak the language so poorly that we wonder why the parents bother with language immersion. Also, PARCC ELA scores for the school are low relative to those of children at DC public schools with similar demographic profiles. I get the feeling that many DC immersion parents are in for a rude awakening eventually.

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