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[quote=Anonymous]^^^ Incredibly well-stated PP.  I will just add that if I boil down what you say and say it even more plainly, even the well-intentioned charter school starters need to remember that at the end of the day, you need to have the best interests of DC's student population (and the best interests of Ward 7 and 8 students if that's where you'll be located) in mind when you start a school.  Yes, those willing to put the blood, sweat, time and money into starting a new school get to propose the school they're willing to do all that work for, and more power to you no matter what language you want to do.  But as the PCSB and other parties responsible for the best use of public dollars and school funding resources, I'd reject a Japanese school in a heartbeat, especially if someone else proposed a Spanish school or Mandarin school in the same batch.  If we're talking about languages that mean jobs, in the US Spanish, Mandarin and Arabic are going to be the top 3.  There are no dual language schools in Wards 7 and 8, so the first batch will hopefully be one (or two!) of those languages, because that's what the residents of Wards 7 and 8 deserve: a language that will truly be useful, and not a vanity language that suits the interests of the founders but in the end will not likely benefit the students beyond the benefits of learning any 2nd language at a young age (and that IS a benefit).[/quote]

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