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[quote=Anonymous]I'm not the poster you're responding to. The fact remains that at Spanish immerison charters, parents don't need to host au pairs to ensure that the kids can speak the language fairly decently. They simply don't.

We speak Spanish pretty well, so we can hear that kids who've been at one of the SI charters for many years from a non-Spanish speaking family can speak the language OK.  This is generally true even if a family has never hosted au pairs. The kids obviously aren't just learning Spanish from teachers. They're learning the language from bilingual peers/classmates.

By contrast, at YuYing families w/out a native speaker in the home do need to host au pairs for the kids to speak OK Mandarin. We hosted au pairs ourselves after figuring this out. We bailed on YY eventually and are now at BASIS for 5th grade. We use a heritage language program we like in MD to keep up our son's Chinese. There are many native speakers in the program and his spoken Chinese has improved a lot since we left YuYing. Post as much nasty crap as you want in your defensiveness. [/quote]

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