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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hardy Middle in Ward 2 cut Mandarin but kept Spanish and Italian.[/quote]

Madness. 1.8 billion Chinese in the next superpower and they kept...Italian?  Where's the vision on DCPS' part?
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So ignorant on your part. And the Italian programming is partially funded by Italian grant program [/quote]

Is it? Shows us the line item in the DCPS budget where these teaching positions are funded by external allocations. We will wait.

Not sure how it is ignorant to point out that Mandarin has more native speakers than any other language in the world.

The value in studying Mandarin is self-evident. The value of Italian much less so.[/quote]

Lazy and ignorant. DCPS is one of several partnerships that the Italian embassy has around the country to strengthen Italian language promote kids sitting for the AP Italian exam. They signed an MOU with DCPS just before Covid. Also, Italian is one of the most studied languages in the world. So your value barometer is not particularly relevant. [/quote]

An MOU just before COVID? As in, 5 years ago? And what became of that MOU? Tellingly you have absolutely no information to share on how the Italian government is subsidizing Italian instruction in DCPS. Probably because it isn’t.

And it’s not like a subsidy is a particularly good use for saddling young children with the study of a language that is, for all intents and purposes, professionally useless.

Italian could be “one of the most” studied languages in the world, depending of course on one’s definition of most. In rankings of global students, it  seems to rank seventh, behind English, French, Mandarin, Spanish, German, and Japanese.

I learned both Japanese and German in high school and both were a complete waste of time. And both languages are a heck of a lot more useful than Italian.[/quote]

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