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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I honestly don't understand the aggressive response from Oyster fanatics to all the parents who question whether bilingual education is right for their child or offering an English-only alternative.  If anything, it seems to me that it makes little sense for Oyster to be a neighborhood school; why force IB families to take a space in a program there are literally hundreds of people waiting to get into?  If someone says "take my space and give it to a bilingual household," is that something to condemn?

I do worry that I won't be able to participate fully in my daughter's education or be a resource to her.  That's important to me.  The response seems to be "suck it up and move, racist."  (For the record, I've lived outside the US and speak another language; it just doesn't happen to be Spanish.  I also have no dog in the fights over changes in administration, quality of middle school math, etc. - we're just starting out.)  The pro-OA posters here are doing a great job of creating the impression that Oyster-Adams is a fundamentally unwelcoming environment for families that don't speak Spanish at home and don't have that as their highest priority; that does not make me any more excited about the school.

I would be interested in hearing from parents who shared those concerns and resolved them or from those who found public school alternatives (private school is an option, but I would really like to use a neighborhood public school - Eaton would be the most logical alternative given where our new house is).  I would be less interested in hearing from those who seem to think that wanting something different for my child than you want for your child is a moral failing.[/quote]

Btw, your new official English-alternative school under the new boundary plan is Francis-Stevens SWW.[/quote]

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