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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But they have long wait lists anyway where student populations aren't majority FARMs.  Other than Spanish, teaching immersion languages dissuades most poor families from entering the lotteries.  Works like a charm for the gentrifiers, and a little language exposure is nice, too.  The system wouldn't fly in states with a lot of high performing schools, particularly Cal and NY, but it's widely considered good enough for DC.
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Why don't poor families like immersion?[/quote]

What makes you say they don't?

Most of the DCPS dual language schools are Title 1 (Powell, Marie Reed, Bancroft, etc). Pretty much every school except Oyster.

As for charters --

DCB - 99% economically disadvantaged
Stokes - 52% economically disadvantaged
Mundo Verde 29% economically disadvantaged
LAMB 25.4% economically disadvantaged
YY - 10.5% economically disadvantaged
Sela - 57.1% economically disadvantaged
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Wonderful, immersion Spanish for low SES native/semi-native Spanish speakers and other kids who aren't low SES.  That makes sense in the DC context!

We bailed on YY some years back. The poor kids' Mandarin was dreadful in the upper grades, almost to a kid (vs. the Mandarin of the UMC families like us hosting Chinese au pairs). Their English wasn't too hot either. The YY model started to seem misguided. Admins flattered us all without looking too hard at real problems w/low SES involvement.  Never met a low SES Chinese-speaking family at YY.

But, yea, let's all pretend that the cognitive boost kids get from language immersion is all that matters!!

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