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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]22:19 is the new stupid.  What makes you so sure that people in AU Park seek out a monolingual education?  Because they may not be frothing at the mouth at the slight chance of getting into Yu Ying?  Thankfully, people in AU Park don't have to worry about the gamble of charter school admittance and there's nothing stopping them from having their children learn a second language.[/quote]

+1. The bilingual charter schools are overrated anyway.  Without immersion MS options, collectively, the little kids in them, whose language skills generally aren't being reinforced at home (almost the entire Yu Ying population as there's no Chinese community behind the school, vs. Oyster, supported by a Latino community), are likely to have a hard time hanging onto their "fluency." CH parents in particular tend to use YY and others to escape not-so-great neighborhood schools, not because they have a connection to the immersion language/culture, or a definite path to Intl Bacca in HS.

You're better off starting with a solid IB ES school and seeing if lottery luck at an immersion school works for you later.  Can't agree more with the poster who suggested that.  Housing prices are rising a lot faster than salaries - it can be difficult to afford to move after you already have a kid or two.

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Incorrect.  All the immersion schools are developing a MS/HS that goes all the way up to the IB Diploma.  So, the Chinese and Spanish language-learning can continue up to college admissions, at which point they may also have IB Diplomas.  (I forget - can you get an IB Diploma at a DC HS?  I know you can in FFX and MoCo, but I'm quite sure Wilson doesn't offer it.)  Also, all those Chinese exchange students, and opportunities to house visiting teachers, and a school trip to China, etc. should provide plenty of opportunities to speak Chinese outside the classroom.  Don't you think?

Seriously, complaining about imperfect (yet already functional) Chinese of some students who have another decade to perfect their mastery of the language translates into...  sour grapes.

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