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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who said DCI is only doing advanced language classes instead of immersion???
 Clearly you did not attend the information sessions or are deliberately trying to sabotage by spreading false information. DCI will be teaching content in target languages. Not all subjects, but many so that kids have a large portion of their content delivered in French, Spanish, [/quote]

Well I attended a couple information sessions.  But I didn't come away convinced that the immersion would continue in a manner that would prevent the kids from losing ground on target language acquisition, at least without substantial home inputs.

With only 50 or 60 kids graduating from YY, and fewer from Stokes, DCI is going to struggle to maintain immersion environments.  Maybe half of the charter graduates will head elsewhere for middle school.  DCI is really too far from the Hill, where many future language immersion school graduates live.

As long as DC Charter continues to fight allowing language proficient kids to test into any of their immersion schools, even to replace dropouts, keeping enrollment up for target language speakers at DCI is going to be tough.

Yes, target language speaking kids with language skills could lottery in, and perhaps be allowed to take the immersion classes, but how many actually would?

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