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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not?  My "little bean" doesn't believe you.[/quote]

Beans, plural. Children, plural. Not your individual child. If your child is middle school aged or older, would they really want to attend a school of "little green beaners"?

The point is, something as basic as the potential name should not sound juvenile bordering on ridiculous to native-level French speakers. Multi-lingual Africans, like myself, might see the proposed name idea as at best a bad a pun on Mundo Verde.

If the idea is to create a "green" school, then by all means it makes sense that the charter teacher and others who have not gotten into other charters for preschool should go ahead.

Language immersion is not for monolingual amateurs who think it would be nice for their now-toddlers to speak (if not read, write, joke and calculate) another language. It is difficult to do well in the best of circumstances. [/quote]

The points about the name have been made well, and completely.  More than anything, it's clear we have far bigger thing to worry about (and many of us who have done start ups before were well aware from the beginning of the bigger issues).  So the name is not the priority right now, although if we do decide to move forward with some exploratory steps, we will have to revisit the working title of the school so we do not inadvertently turn off native French-speaking partners right from the beginning.

Not sure where the continuous judgements about who is involved and what their language abilities are is coming from though.  On what basis are you assessing that all those who've declared an interest are mono-lingual?  And maybe no one so far has actually started a successful school, but "amateur" is a pretty strong word when there are a LOT of skills and experiences that need to combine to pull something like this off.

Does everyone on DCUM really think that every other popular charter school in DC started from the idea stage with a group of people who had already previously started a charter school and who were already fluent in the target language (for the bilingual schools)?  If so, you really don't know as much as you think you do about the founding of some of the already established charter schools.[/quote]

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