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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because the challenges of immersion study deters most parents of FARMs students from applying to charters, unless they speak the target language at home (Spanish).

With immersion in the mix, you get an overwhelmingly SES student bodies at a few charters (e.g. YuYing, 10% FARMs) like at JKLM, Brent etc.

Also, immersion adds extra challenge in a city without formal GT programs.

Immersion works to get high SES parents what they want when they can't afford Upper NW or the priciest Cap Hill real estate.  Few will admit this but that's the story.[/quote]

Capital Hill is fine, but there's nothing after ES.  Upper NW is awful, though.  If all you care about is good schools instead of living in the city, then might as well move to the suburbs, which are truly good.   Instead, you have the worst of both worlds.

Immersion is a draw for a certain type of family that has high expectations, but is also open and worldly, in a way that those who prefer Tenleytown are not.[/quote]

We prefer Tenleytown and Janney.  We've happily lived and worked on several continents as a family. Our three kids speak Chinese around twice as well as any YY student we got to know when we lived in NE. We spoke Chinese to dozens of them.

You're full of it.  DC folk elect to live in Upper NW for many reasons, including the path to Deal and Wilson. [/quote]

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