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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Over 17% of students at Miner are homeless.  Providing a curriculum that transfers well to other schools, and can be joined mid-year if necessary, is very important for those students.  I cannot think of something much more opposed to that than Mandarin immersion.

However, if the hope is to get a program like Tyler's where there are single and dual-language classrooms in each grade, and the organizers expect all the homeless kids will go in the English-only track, I commend them for their creativity.  Some parents will do almost anything--including have their kids learn a language most of them cannot support at home--in order to keep away from poor people.[/quote]
I love you! This is Tyler- and the push behind dual language options at schools. [/quote]

Yes. God forbid we do something to [b]attract middle or upper class people to their neighborhood school.[/b] The horror. [/quote]

In the school but away from the poors. You want the segregation. The current  curriculum at Miner and teachers aren't bad actually. What you don't want is to be with the very at risk kids, I get it. But the mandarin idea at Miner just sounds like a way to keep your snowflakes in bubble wrap. The links the PP provided support immersion but not true integration of dual-language programs. I love how PS3 and younger parents have it all figured out. Really, go check out Tyler in the upper grades. Not your utopia by any stretch. The entire idea is daft.
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Again, it should be a goal of DCPS and the school for IB families to attend their neighborhood school. I love how any time someone suggests something that would do that (be it a gifted program or a language immersion program), people scream "racist!" It is so ridiculous and short sighted. [/quote]

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