Now the Harricots Vertes needs to be added next to balance out all of that Spanish.

DC bilingual has been approved. All of the remaining charters have just submitted their amendments to include DCI. Naysayers be damned!

DCI will be a consortium of five charter school language immersion programs (Mundo Verde, Elsie Whitlow Stokes, Yu Ying, Latin American Montessori Bilingual and DC Bilingual (once approved)) housed together inside one school.

Anonymous wrote:http://www.dcpubliccharter.com/News-Room.aspx?ID=322

Says that the middle and high school grades will allow students to test in. No mention of Sela, but it looks like they could request an ammendment to their charter to be included.

Is all of YY moving to Walter Reed or just the middle/high school?

You read wrong: "He also noted that DCI would be open to new applicants, who would not need language proficiency to gain admission. "

Sorry misread. Says they will NOT need to test in for admission...

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://www.dcpubliccharter.com/News-Room.aspx?ID=322

Says that the middle and high school grades will allow students to test in. No mention of Sela, but it looks like they could request an ammendment to their charter to be included.

Is all of YY moving to Walter Reed or just the middle/high school?

It says nothing about testing in!

Just the middle/high school. They own the building they're in now.

Anonymous wrote:http://www.dcpubliccharter.com/News-Room.aspx?ID=322

Says that the middle and high school grades will allow students to test in. No mention of Sela, but it looks like they could request an ammendment to their charter to be included.

Is all of YY moving to Walter Reed or just the middle/high school?

It says nothing about testing in!

http://www.dcpubliccharter.com/News-Room.aspx?ID=322

Says that the middle and high school grades will allow students to test in. No mention of Sela, but it looks like they could request an ammendment to their charter to be included.

Is all of YY moving to Walter Reed or just the middle/high school?

Thy are going to have sports and candy and rainbows. Honestly, DCI sounds like a great solution, but a political and logistical nightmare.

That's what the leaders of the feeders said at the joint presentation for families!!

Are they going to have sports teams at the high school? This would be an AWESOME program! !!

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Anonymous wrote:Please stop. Sela does not exist yet but someone, a booster, keeps bringing it up as a potential future member of DCI. I have no opinion about Hebrew but as a parent whose child attends a DCI feeder would much prefer my child knows Mandarin, Spanish and/or French over Hebrew. We are Jewish and our kid goes to Hebrew school to prepare for his bar mitzvah.

If Sela boosters want to discuss Sela, they should start their own thread instead of bringing it up in every thread about DCI which also does not exist yet but is in the planning stages.

If other language charters want to join DCI, it would make more sense to discuss other immersion charters like DC bilingual which offer Spanish. Course they don't insert themselves in every discussion about DCI.

I'm one of the posters who has expressed great interest in Sela joining the DCI. I'm not a "Sela booster" though - I'm a YY parent. Also, I'm not Jewish. Does that make it okay for me to be enthusiastic about a potential future partnership? Or, should I clear my other interests through you, as well?

(For instance, I'm thinking of painting the kitchen blue - how does that sit with you?)

If you're have never misrepresented facts about Sela (i.e. "Sela will definitely be part of DCI") and never falsely represented the interest in Sela, the PP you are responding to isn't talking to you. Where do you see anyone saying you have to be Jewish to have an opinion, or that simply expressing interest in Sela makes you a Booster?

The PP you are quoting is very clearly (because, well, they SAY it) talking about people who insert Sela in threads in ways that are either false (again, "Sela will definitely be a part of DCI" or "The Sela table was mobbed") or they mention Sela in a way that is not even relevant to the discussion. The same has been done at time re: YY (both to boost and criticize) and a few other schools.

So the good news for you? Unless you want advice on your kitchen, PP's thread wasn't speaking to you (unless you've done one of the above things) so you can happily go on expressing your interest in Sela. And painting your kitchen blue.

Anonymous wrote:Please stop. Sela does not exist yet but someone, a booster, keeps bringing it up as a potential future member of DCI. I have no opinion about Hebrew but as a parent whose child attends a DCI feeder would much prefer my child knows Mandarin, Spanish and/or French over Hebrew. We are Jewish and our kid goes to Hebrew school to prepare for his bar mitzvah.

If Sela boosters want to discuss Sela, they should start their own thread instead of bringing it up in every thread about DCI which also does not exist yet but is in the planning stages.

If other language charters want to join DCI, it would make more sense to discuss other immersion charters like DC bilingual which offer Spanish. Course they don't insert themselves in every discussion about DCI.

I'm one of the posters who has expressed great interest in Sela joining the DCI. I'm not a "Sela booster" though - I'm a YY parent. Also, I'm not Jewish. Does that make it okay for me to be enthusiastic about a potential future partnership? Or, should I clear my other interests through you, as well?

(For instance, I'm thinking of painting the kitchen blue - how does that sit with you?)

Anonymous wrote:I enjoyed discussing DCI with Stokes, Yu Ying and LAMB at the Charter School Expo (didn't get around to discussing with Mundo Verde). While all except YY were understandably hesitant to discuss in terms of "definites", there is a lot of excitement all around.

It will be great to see how this idea grows and develops. In my fantasy world (which begins with my kids getting into one of the feeder schools as a start!), they would add other world languages such as Russian or Arabic. If kids who attend really do graduate fluent in 2 languages and conversational in at least one additional language, aside from all the great other benefits that come with bilingual education, they will have some serious options re: college study and employment.

Here's to hoping DCI succeeds, thrives, and changes the face of DC public education in a way that benefits all schools in DC.

Agreed. DCI is a very impressive initiative. I hope it goes well and adds new charters languages as it goes along. The priority now is to actually make it work!