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[quote=Anonymous]Above info about Thompson isn't accurate. I don't know about Seaton. Thompson traditionally hires a Cantonese-speaking ECE teacher to interpret for the small number of Cantonese-speaking IB residents who send their little ones. Sometimes this teacher speaks both Mandarin and Cantonese - no connection to YY. There are around a dozen ethnic bilingual kids at Thompson (generally zero Mandarin speakers). Thompson goes with Mandarin as its foreign language special because it was the least stupid alternative to not bothering with 45 minutes of week of gimmicky "language exposure" DCPS has required for the last 5 years. Most downtown ethnic Chinese with kids still bail on DCPS by 1st grade, generally for MoCo schools.[/quote]
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