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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As I understand this is the rule for ALL the charters in the city (except one Spanish immersion school) -- This is the reason why YY and MV are joining forces in the upper grades and "merging". 
I agree that the rule is nonsense (why not admitting students fluent in Hebrew or Chinese in the upper grades of the school??) and would hope that it will change at one point.

If not, I hope Sela could join the "language immersion" cluster HS school. [/quote]

The rule in DC is that all children must be treated the same, and no admissions tests are allowed. So if a non-Hebrew speaking child wants to join Sela in later grade and if a Hebrew speaking child wants to join Sela in a later grade - they have to be admitted, if Sela permits students coming in at a later grade. YY handles this by having a non-immersion track where kids get Chinese instruction, and not Chinese immersion unless and until  they can be brought up to speed and enter the regular immersion program. I asked one of the Sela volunteers whether students would be admitted at a later grade, and she said that their policy is not to admit students after 2nd grade, but that if the city changes its policy on language admissions tests for later grades, it would consider changing its policy and apparently some of the other language schools in the DCI are pushing for this.[/quote]

Wouldn't this make an opening for all different types of admission tests, such as academic testing?[/quote]

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