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Reply to " Yu Ying - Do/Can Non-Native Kids Actually SPEAK Chinese?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are immersion programs in German, French, and Japanese in Fairfax county where the language is not necessarily supported at home and there are not all that many heritage speakers in the program. Can anyone compare and contrast those programs to YY in terms of how successful the language learning is in these programs? [/quote] There's more money and seriousness of purpose in Fairfax county in the immersion calculus than in DC, other than maybe for Spanish at Oyster. I've had conversations about the set up with the Quebecois Maury ES principal on Cap Hill about all this -she was the head of a French immersion program in Fairfax before DCPS. In Fairfax, loads of au pairs, tutors, summer immersion camps (including abroad), weekend heritage programs with native speakers nearby, strong IBD HS programs offering Higher Level language classes, awaiting etc. [/quote] Fairfax County is the third richest county in the country, and the public school system has a FARMS rate of 28%. DC's FARMS rate is still over 75%. They can literally and figuratively afford things that DC cannot. [/quote]
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