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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, it does.

We're going with Hobson partly because the principal is fine with letting us home school our child in a very difficult language one of us speaks (not a Romance language).  He won't force instruction in another language on us.  We appreciate the flexibility and recognition that we've home schooled the child to an advanced level in the language for his age and just want to be left alone to continue.  We won't be the first parents in this situation in our fast-changing neighborhood.[/quote]

I’m rolling my eyes at this. If you want to go to a public school, you should follow the public school curriculum. There might be a new principal by the time your children get there anyway.  [/quote]

Yes, you're rolling you're eyes because you clearly aren't raising fully bilingual children. I'll leave it to you to raise monolingual children who can't score high on International Baccalaureate Diploma Higher Level language exams, or even Standard Level IBD exams and AP exams.

In far more sophisticated school systems, e.g. MoCo and Fairfax, kids who are bilingual aren't forced to study foreign languages.  No, they're allowed to opt out of language study altogether in MS and HS if they can pass language proficiency classes on day 1, like at many colleges.  The stellar Hobson principal gets it.  If he's gone by the time we get there in the fall, and the new head won't work with us, we'll probably move on for 7th grade.  No big deal.[/quote]

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