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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hardy Middle in Ward 2 cut Mandarin but kept Spanish and Italian.[/quote]

Madness. 1.8 billion Chinese in the next superpower and they kept...Italian?  Where's the vision on DCPS' part?
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The dumbest decision ever. Supposedly Italian was more popular among the middle schoolers than Chinese. What self-respecting school allows its curriculum to be dictated by the whims of pre-teens? You’d think in DC of all places in America, there might be an appreciation of the importance of training people to speak the language (for which starting at middle school is required), but somehow the Hardy MS principal didn’t get the memo.[/quote]

Staff is also a consideration. The Italian teacher can’t suddenly start teaching Chinese. They’ve struggled to keep Chinese teachers in DCPS because they can’t handle the culture shock of students being so disrespectful. Hardy lucked into getting an excellent Italian teacher. The students like her and she is successful at teaching them. Better to have students loving and learning Italian than failing at Chinese with a new teacher every year.[/quote]

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