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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You people complaining of lack of French or Mandarin native students need to get a grip on reality.

First, there are not that many of them in the city.

Second, the immersion charters cannot give native speakers preference in the lottery.  That’s a BIG deal.  Even if you have native speakers applying, they don’t get preference to get in.

There are many native Spanish students because of there is a large population in the city.  More native speakers applying, higher chance the immersion charters will get some of them.

Yet, DCPS immersion charters are able to give spanish dominant families preference and they always get in.

So it’s easy to complain there is not many native speakers but it’s obvious those who do don’t realize that there is no way for immersion charters to get native speakers due to the the city‘s restrictiveness of charters not being able to get preference.[/quote]

No, DC immersion charters could give native speakers preference in lotteries, as is done in many states, without interference from the US Dept. of Ed, if DC changed the LEA arrangement for charters. This hasn't happened because no lobby has ever formed to push for it, including push for joint DCPS-Charter hybrid immersion schools that could preference.  You might not know that DCI feeder leaders tried to team up with DCPS in establishing DCI, but DCPS and OSSE leaders rebuffed them.

Arguably, no point in running any type of immersion school without native speakers.  They're a joke. It's a lousy, gimmicky set up with weak target language acquisition results across the board. The only exceptions are kids who speak the language at home, mainly with pricey hired help, which sucks for the low SES families involved.  So why not make DCI a partial Spanish immersion school and be done with it?  Pretending endlessly that public immersion French and Chinese are value for money in the District isn't the answer.  We should aim higher as a city, a lot higher.

Hardy.
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