I think you should maybe meet a few teachers of schools here in DC who teach bilingual education. The ones I've spoken to at Mundo Verde and LAMB were all native speakers who spoke flawless English and Spanish. I did not go to other schools but I'm sure that they have excellent truly bilingual native speakers as well. I'm sorry you shortchanged your students in the 90s, but that's not the case here (as far as I know).

I wouldn't pick immersion because I taught bilingual education in California in the 90's. Although, I grew up speaking both Spanish and English, I was educated in English (although I studied Spanish for a year in Spain). My vocabulary in English is far superior in English than Spanish. In Spanish I can say I am hungry, but in English I can say I am ravenous, famished, starving, voracious. Most bilingual teacher grew up speaking Spanish at home but never attended college in Spanish speaking country or if they did their English is lacking. It is really hard to find bilingual teachers who are fluent at a college level in both languages. My kindergarten comes home with new vocabulary in English from his peers (whose parents are college educated) and his teachers. He just asked me if google or googleplex was bigger and how many zeros each one had because his classmates were discussing it (there are a couple of kids in his class whose parents are computer scientists).

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Anonymous wrote:Wondering for those of you who aren't interested in language immersion do you already speak a second language at home or are you not involved really internationally?

What does "being involved internationally" mean?
Travel often? Do business? Have family?
That's such a vague question.

What a hilarious question! Our children are welcome to learn another language of their choosing at any point in their lives. Right now we aren't "involved internationally" but are living a quiet life here in DC. Mandarin is not at all culturally relevant to our family or our lives. But walking to neighborhood school and having school friends on the block is.

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Anonymous wrote:You do realize multiple posters are saying this, right? Many posters are finding this Lee parent and their sock puppet annoying and rude.

Speaking of sock puppets, you and your imaginary friends (who all coincidentally display zero reading comprehension skills) are the only ones making this about Lee. You're the only ones who keep bringing it up since the first poster you responded to with off the charts rudeness:

Anonymous wrote:First of all, I doubt your "Fluency". You may speak it very well, but that's worlds apart from being truly fluent. Sorry. I've met people like you, and you guys are never truly fluent.

Secondly, your crappy school has been around for less than a year. I doubt very much it's the only school where you can "create good learning and work habits."

I wouldn't enroll my child in a brand new school like Lee, and the obnoxious Lee boosters are only giving me more reason to stay away.

Really, and you expect anyone to take your posts about how rude Lee parents are seriously? Incredible.

Oh so it's not "off the charts rude" to dismiss every other school in dc as being incapable of "teaching good work school habits"?

You just don't like it when people point out your own rudeness. And I don't care about Lee at all. But don't dismiss every other school while boosting your totally brand new program on dcum. Of course you only responded with personal attacks, since you know all of us are right.

I'm sorry, did you not realize that you're crappy school has been around less than a year?

Fwiw I was the person that gave away the trophy. That was my only post of the thread.

Anonymous wrote:You do realize multiple posters are saying this, right? Many posters are finding this Lee parent and their sock puppet annoying and rude.

Speaking of sock puppets, you and your imaginary friends (who all coincidentally display zero reading comprehension skills) are the only ones making this about Lee. You're the only ones who keep bringing it up since the first poster you responded to with off the charts rudeness:

Anonymous wrote:First of all, I doubt your "Fluency". You may speak it very well, but that's worlds apart from being truly fluent. Sorry. I've met people like you, and you guys are never truly fluent.

Secondly, your crappy school has been around for less than a year. I doubt very much it's the only school where you can "create good learning and work habits."

I wouldn't enroll my child in a brand new school like Lee, and the obnoxious Lee boosters are only giving me more reason to stay away.

Really, and you expect anyone to take your posts about how rude Lee parents are seriously? Incredible.

Anonymous wrote:+1. It's officially Lee has taken the trophy for the most annoying parents in DCUM. It was a hard battle fought amongst pro Basis, anti Basis, pro DCI, anti DCI, pro Hardy and all WOTP parents that hate Hardy for uniforms. Congrats Lee. What a feat!

+1

You do realize multiple posters are saying this, right? Many posters are finding this Lee parent and their sock puppet annoying and rude.

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Anonymous wrote:I just shared this on the Lee vs. Stokes thread but thought I'd post here too...

I choose montessori over immersion because i think creating good learning and work habits first is more important that becoming bilingual. I was not raised in a bilingual environment or with Spanish until high school, and after a few years of living abroad and traveling I am now fluent in Spanish.

First of all, I doubt your "Fluency". You may speak it very well, but that's worlds apart from being truly fluent. Sorry. I've met people like you, and you guys are never truly fluent.

Secondly, your crappy school has been around for less than a year. I doubt very much it's the only school where you can "create good learning and work habits."

I wouldn't enroll my child in a brand new school like Lee, and the obnoxious Lee boosters are only giving me more reason to stay away.

I don't go to Lee, have no interest in Montessori at all. I also agree with your point that often fluency is not quite fluent. However I also definitely am happy you'll stay far away from Lee, that is best for all kids and families there. You sound like you bring an unpleasant cloud over anywhere you go. A bit sad for wherever you do have kids, but hopefully your kids are rising above that cloud.

Dear Lee Booster in disguise,

If anyone is sending unpleasant thoughts it's you- somehow it's okay to dismiss every other program in DC as not teaching good habits except for some untested school known for their antics on dcum?

I don't know what people say is good about Lee, I don't know what they say that's bad about Lee. I opened this thread because it's about immersion, not Lee, but your weird bitter attitude is just so nasty - even for DCUM - that 1 thing that Lee definitely has going for it is that you hate it. And will therefore stay away. Wondering which other DC school isn't as lucky?

+1. It's officially Lee has taken the trophy for the most annoying parents in DCUM. It was a hard battle fought amongst pro Basis, anti Basis, pro DCI, anti DCI, pro Hardy and all WOTP parents that hate Hardy for uniforms. Congrats Lee. What a feat!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just shared this on the Lee vs. Stokes thread but thought I'd post here too...

I choose montessori over immersion because i think creating good learning and work habits first is more important that becoming bilingual. I was not raised in a bilingual environment or with Spanish until high school, and after a few years of living abroad and traveling I am now fluent in Spanish.

First of all, I doubt your "Fluency". You may speak it very well, but that's worlds apart from being truly fluent. Sorry. I've met people like you, and you guys are never truly fluent.

Secondly, your crappy school has been around for less than a year. I doubt very much it's the only school where you can "create good learning and work habits."

I wouldn't enroll my child in a brand new school like Lee, and the obnoxious Lee boosters are only giving me more reason to stay away.

I don't go to Lee, have no interest in Montessori at all. I also agree with your point that often fluency is not quite fluent. However I also definitely am happy you'll stay far away from Lee, that is best for all kids and families there. You sound like you bring an unpleasant cloud over anywhere you go. A bit sad for wherever you do have kids, but hopefully your kids are rising above that cloud.

Dear Lee Booster in disguise,

If anyone is sending unpleasant thoughts it's you- somehow it's okay to dismiss every other program in DC as not teaching good habits except for some untested school known for their antics on dcum?

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Anonymous wrote:Tyler is not an immersion school ... only 2 classes per grade level, mixed with an Arts curriculum that surrounds with more kids. Not at the same level as what is offered at schools like Oyster, Mundo Verde, Powell, etc.

Tyler has two programs within the school. Look it up.

+1 it irks me when people speak about things they don't know about. Google is so quick.

Anonymous wrote:Tyler is not an immersion school ... only 2 classes per grade level, mixed with an Arts curriculum that surrounds with more kids. Not at the same level as what is offered at schools like Oyster, Mundo Verde, Powell, etc.

Tyler has two programs within the school. Look it up.