Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm tired of people dogging Japanese. I see more opportunity learning Japanese than in any other language. Spanish is great to communicate with my neighbors or someone with a Latino business, but I don't see a future in it. I don't see my child growing up and going to Columbia just to sell coffee beans, because that is all they have to offer. Or some other country in Latin America who deals in sugar cane and bananas. No!! I want more options. I don't want French unless my child is going to be an arms dealer or in the wine or bread business. Japan is it!! China will be our enemy soon, and Korea will cave in when the North invades. No. Japan is a safe bet. Get angry. What car do you drive? What PC do you use? What TV do you have? Samsung? Okay. That's Korean, but my bet is that a lot of what you have is from Japan.

This is very funny! So many clichés!

Spanish = coffee, sugar cane, bananas (by the way, it's ColOmbia)
French = bread, wine, arms dealers (poor guys)
Japanese = car, TV, computers

Hey, I just had an idea! What about a Cliché Charter School?!

+1. It is like a bad parody of good old chauvinism...

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Haa Ha. Do you think Immersion schools just pop up over night? You must be born yesterday. This is not OP....Oh yeah. Japanese Immersion is a bad idea so don't bother going to the cherry blossom festivities ever. Next!!

So just because I don't support a publicly funded Japanese immersion school in my ward, I shouldn't go to the Cherry Blossom festival. Hmmm, this type of warped logic about immersion schools worries me. Teaching my child in English and Japanese, sorry I would prefer my child to be bilingual in a more useful language. The OP was not talking about taking Japanese language classes or exposure to different languages or cultures, but an immersion school. I would rather my child learn math, science, and other core subjects in English or a language more commonly used in the USA and other countries. This current obsession with immersion above all else is worrisome.

No sushi for you either

Correction. They don't teach a thing in Spanish class.

My son goes to a ward 7 "American school" and they don't teach a thing. Just basic stuff. My own son thinks that it's a joke. Unless you have had a taste of Japanese immersion or any immersion for that matter, you don't have a clue. Japanese is hard? How do you know? Have you tried learning Japanese? Someone with a superior intellect and sarcasm can learn it easily. Instead of dissecting and spell checking people's posts, make yourself useful. "COLOMBIA AND BLOW". Talk about Cliché.

Anonymous wrote:I'm tired of people dogging Japanese. I see more opportunity learning Japanese than in any other language. Spanish is great to communicate with my neighbors or someone with a Latino business, but I don't see a future in it. I don't see my child growing up and going to Columbia just to sell coffee beans, because that is all they have to offer. Or some other country in Latin America who deals in sugar cane and bananas. No!! I want more options. I don't want French unless my child is going to be an arms dealer or in the wine or bread business. Japan is it!! China will be our enemy soon, and Korea will cave in when the North invades. No. Japan is a safe bet. Get angry. What car do you drive? What PC do you use? What TV do you have? Samsung? Okay. That's Korean, but my bet is that a lot of what you have is from Japan.

Colombia also sells tons of blow, which your kids probably will have to use to soothe the pain after going through immersion Japanese school and being taunted by everybody else who goes to regular American schools and learn Spanish or French twice a week, half an hour.

Colombia also sells great coffee, which your kid will drink with sugar cane sugar from Latin America to kick that nasty blow habit in his late-twenties, early thirties.

France sells wine and cheese, which your kid will need to learn about after he starts waiting tables because the rap sheet blocks him from using his MIT degree.

As for cars, if your kid goes to an American school, and integrates well with Americans, he might be able to use his intelligence and buy a Mercedes, and forget about his middle-class past riding lousy Asian cars.

"I'm tired of people dogging Japanese. I see more opportunity learning Japanese than in any other language. Spanish is great to communicate with my neighbors or someone with a Latino business, but I don't see a future in it. I don't see my child growing up and going to Columbia just to sell coffee beans, because that is all they have to offer. Or some other country in Latin America who deals in sugar cane and bananas. No!! I want more options. I don't want French unless my child is going to be an arms dealer or in the wine or bread business. Japan is it!! China will be our enemy soon, and Korea will cave in when the North invades. No. Japan is a safe bet. Get angry. What car do you drive? What PC do you use? What TV do you have? Samsung? Okay. That's Korean, but my bet is that a lot of what you have is from Japan."

It is for people like you that folks do not want to learn Japanese/ Asian culture. Why learn this language? To talk to Japanese people. Good riddance!! I would rather learn French, and be able to communicate properly in Geneve and France. Would rather learn Spanish, to visit Barcelona, Madrid, Buenos Aires. God, would rather even learn to speak proper German.

To learn Asian languages is too complicated and the upside is minimum. Let them eat cakes, as Marie Antoniette would say. You learn to speak English, because Western cultures usually get to keep their languages. That's the way the World is. I didn't make the rules, I just live in it.

Anonymous wrote:I'm tired of people dogging Japanese. I see more opportunity learning Japanese than in any other language. Spanish is great to communicate with my neighbors or someone with a Latino business, but I don't see a future in it. I don't see my child growing up and going to Columbia just to sell coffee beans, because that is all they have to offer. Or some other country in Latin America who deals in sugar cane and bananas. No!! I want more options. I don't want French unless my child is going to be an arms dealer or in the wine or bread business. Japan is it!! China will be our enemy soon, and Korea will cave in when the North invades. No. Japan is a safe bet. Get angry. What car do you drive? What PC do you use? What TV do you have? Samsung? Okay. That's Korean, but my bet is that a lot of what you have is from Japan.

This is very funny! So many clichés!

Spanish = coffee, sugar cane, bananas (by the way, it's ColOmbia)
French = bread, wine, arms dealers (poor guys)
Japanese = car, TV, computers

Hey, I just had an idea! What about a Cliché Charter School?!

Nope, not me. OP here...Keeping it positive. It's all good!
I would love to make contact with the person who knows about Davis Elementary. A beautiful school in a quiet neighborhood that is slowly turning into an eyesore. I dreamed about Davis reopening as a Japanese Immersion PCS that could offer another language track.

Anonymous wrote:No. You shouldn't go. Why would you? It doesn't mean anything to you. Useful in the US. Which language? Why be worried about immersion? Don't bother with it...Problem solved. Immersion is not going to take over the school system.

What on earth are you talking about?? Hope you are not the OP.

No. You shouldn't go. Why would you? It doesn't mean anything to you. Useful in the US. Which language? Why be worried about immersion? Don't bother with it...Problem solved. Immersion is not going to take over the school system.

Anonymous wrote:Haa Ha. Do you think Immersion schools just pop up over night? You must be born yesterday. This is not OP....Oh yeah. Japanese Immersion is a bad idea so don't bother going to the cherry blossom festivities ever. Next!!

So just because I don't support a publicly funded Japanese immersion school in my ward, I shouldn't go to the Cherry Blossom festival. Hmmm, this type of warped logic about immersion schools worries me. Teaching my child in English and Japanese, sorry I would prefer my child to be bilingual in a more useful language. The OP was not talking about taking Japanese language classes or exposure to different languages or cultures, but an immersion school. I would rather my child learn math, science, and other core subjects in English or a language more commonly used in the USA and other countries. This current obsession with immersion above all else is worrisome.

13:06 It would be great to meet at the Davis International School Grand Opening.

Wow! 9:13....We should meet! I always looked at Davis as the place to do this!

I'm in Ward 7 and love the idea of Japanese. Would also like the school to offer other languages as well in addition to having a STEM curriculum or a focus on entrepreneurship. A school that takes a unique approach would be really beneficial. Would be great if Davis Elementary could be reopened for this school.

Anonymous wrote:I like the comment about pipe dreams. Pipe dreams can lead to real ideas coming to fruition. Please enjoy this video. Please note that this is a real initiative. We are working slowly and methodically in this endeavor. If Sela can succeed, we can too.[u] There is enough for all language immersion programs to prosper.

This is OP here.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L34WG8T5DEY

DC is a loooooong way away from knowing whether Sela will succeed or not yet. Let's see how their enrollment looks (and what % of families played the lottery and what % transfer out when they have options) and get a better idea of how things are looking for Sela's future.

Basically just pointing out that that is NOT the school to cite as a model. At least, not yet.