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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LAMB and Yu Ying are the schools that have cachet and accomplishment.

I dunno, I've been dipping into the "Sp vs. Ch" thread, with over 300 posts, examining issues related to why YY's student body is only around 2% ethnic bilingual, vs. 1/3-1/2 for the other charter immersion schools. YY is belatedly getting heat because the DC Chinese community has rejected the school from the get go. The thread is full of appalling comments by YY parents who don't want native speakers in class with their kids and dislike Chinese culture for being racist, snotty etc. They don't want ethnic Chinese adminstrators either (there aren't any). I was surprised and disgusted. Sounds like only a matter of time before the press has fun with the story.

LAMB, with its grandfathered lottery for native speakers and great relations with city Hispanics, sounds like it has earned the cachet.

Perhaps we should be taking YY's "accomplishment" with a grain of salt, if not a bag. The immersion schools take a lot of middle-class kids whose parents have simply found a path to flee a low-performing IB school, so they're not necessarily the most outward-looking group committed to international studies for teens. I'm skeptical that DCI will get the majority, or suffer if it doesn't...

I would like to point out that LAMB does not have any grandfathered lottery and that such a thing does not exist. They were finally forced to remove language questions from their application. The rest of your information about Yu Ying is so off base and not based in fact or reality that I cannot take you seriously. You sound like the parent of a kid who got expelled from Yu Ying.

Please cite your source on this.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LAMB and Yu Ying are the schools that have cachet and accomplishment.

I dunno, I've been dipping into the "Sp vs. Ch" thread, with over 300 posts, examining issues related to why YY's student body is only around 2% ethnic bilingual, vs. 1/3-1/2 for the other charter immersion schools. YY is belatedly getting heat because the DC Chinese community has rejected the school from the get go. The thread is full of appalling comments by YY parents who don't want native speakers in class with their kids and dislike Chinese culture for being racist, snotty etc. They don't want ethnic Chinese adminstrators either (there aren't any). I was surprised and disgusted. Sounds like only a matter of time before the press has fun with the story.

LAMB, with its grandfathered lottery for native speakers and great relations with city Hispanics, sounds like it has earned the cachet.

Perhaps we should be taking YY's "accomplishment" with a grain of salt, if not a bag. The immersion schools take a lot of middle-class kids whose parents have simply found a path to flee a low-performing IB school, so they're not necessarily the most outward-looking group committed to international studies for teens. I'm skeptical that DCI will get the majority, or suffer if it doesn't...

I would like to point out that LAMB does not have any grandfathered lottery and that such a thing does not exist. They were finally forced to remove language questions from their application. The rest of your information about Yu Ying is so off base and not based in fact or reality that I cannot take you seriously. You sound like the parent of a kid who got expelled from Yu Ying.

And somehow LAMB has managed to maintain a sense of balance in regards to native and non-native speakers. So what exactly is Yu Ying's issue in regards to having some semblance of balance between native and non-native speakers?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LAMB and Yu Ying are the schools that have cachet and accomplishment.

I dunno, I've been dipping into the "Sp vs. Ch" thread, with over 300 posts, examining issues related to why YY's student body is only around 2% ethnic bilingual, vs. 1/3-1/2 for the other charter immersion schools. YY is belatedly getting heat because the DC Chinese community has rejected the school from the get go. The thread is full of appalling comments by YY parents who don't want native speakers in class with their kids and dislike Chinese culture for being racist, snotty etc. They don't want ethnic Chinese adminstrators either (there aren't any). I was surprised and disgusted. Sounds like only a matter of time before the press has fun with the story.

LAMB, with its grandfathered lottery for native speakers and great relations with city Hispanics, sounds like it has earned the cachet.

Perhaps we should be taking YY's "accomplishment" with a grain of salt, if not a bag. The immersion schools take a lot of middle-class kids whose parents have simply found a path to flee a low-performing IB school, so they're not necessarily the most outward-looking group committed to international studies for teens. I'm skeptical that DCI will get the majority, or suffer if it doesn't...

I would like to point out that LAMB does not have any grandfathered lottery and that such a thing does not exist. They were finally forced to remove language questions from their application. The rest of your information about Yu Ying is so off base and not based in fact or reality that I cannot take you seriously. You sound like the parent of a kid who got expelled from Yu Ying.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LAMB and Yu Ying are the schools that have cachet and accomplishment.

I dunno, I've been dipping into the "Sp vs. Ch" thread, with over 300 posts, examining issues related to why YY's student body is only around 2% ethnic bilingual, vs. 1/3-1/2 for the other charter immersion schools. YY is belatedly getting heat because the DC Chinese community has rejected the school from the get go. The thread is full of appalling comments by YY parents who don't want native speakers in class with their kids and dislike Chinese culture for being racist, snotty etc. They don't want ethnic Chinese adminstrators either (there aren't any). I was surprised and disgusted. Sounds like only a matter of time before the press has fun with the story.

LAMB, with its grandfathered lottery for native speakers and great relations with city Hispanics, sounds like it has earned the cachet.

Perhaps we should be taking YY's "accomplishment" with a grain of salt, if not a bag. The immersion schools take a lot of middle-class kids whose parents have simply found a path to flee a low-performing IB school, so they're not necessarily the most outward-looking group committed to international studies for teens. I'm skeptical that DCI will get the majority, or suffer if it doesn't...

I would like to point out that LAMB does not have any grandfathered lottery and that such a thing does not exist. They were finally forced to remove language questions from their application. The rest of your information about Yu Ying is so off base and not based in fact or reality that I cannot take you seriously. You sound like the parent of a kid who got expelled from Yu Ying.

Anonymous wrote:LAMB and Yu Ying are the schools that have cachet and accomplishment.

I dunno, I've been dipping into the "Sp vs. Ch" thread, with over 300 posts, examining issues related to why YY's student body is only around 2% ethnic bilingual, vs. 1/3-1/2 for the other charter immersion schools. YY is belatedly getting heat because the DC Chinese community has rejected the school from the get go. The thread is full of appalling comments by YY parents who don't want native speakers in class with their kids and dislike Chinese culture for being racist, snotty etc. They don't want ethnic Chinese adminstrators either (there aren't any). I was surprised and disgusted. Sounds like only a matter of time before the press has fun with the story.

LAMB, with its grandfathered lottery for native speakers and great relations with city Hispanics, sounds like it has earned the cachet.

Perhaps we should be taking YY's "accomplishment" with a grain of salt, if not a bag. The immersion schools take a lot of middle-class kids whose parents have simply found a path to flee a low-performing IB school, so they're not necessarily the most outward-looking group committed to international studies for teens. I'm skeptical that DCI will get the majority, or suffer if it doesn't...

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DCI would not and under current law could not be any of these things except IB (at some point and with outside funding). It's competition would be all DCPS selective high schools, private schools (they could all use some diversity) and Tier 1 charter high schools. (Jay Mathews would include CHEC. ) That narrows the pool of bilingual and bi-literate, AP-ready, no special needs or below proficient students. Some of those pre-Kers who chatter in Mandarin or read (already!) in Spanish may have tired of the extra effort and motivation (and possibly lack of sports) needed to stick with language intensive programs.

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Anonymous wrote:a model for how it might work is Washington International School WIS for 6th grade. You can apply as French fluent, French beginning, Spanish fluent, Spanish beginning, Chinese intermediate, etc. Depending on your language fluency, you take literature and social studies in either French / Spanish or if not that fluent in English. I believe at WIS all math & science is taught in English. Students not fluent in a second language start with Spanish 1, French 1, etc. Students can start a third language. Not saying this is how DCI will do it (I don't know) but saying WIS provides a model.

. Technically, but WIS is one, private, IB diploma, selective school.

DCI would not and under current law could not be any of these things except IB (at some point and with outside funding). It's competition would be all DCPS selective high schools, private schools (they could all use some diversity) and Tier 1 charter high schools. (Jay Mathews would include CHEC. ) That narrows the pool of bilingual and bi-literate, AP-ready, no special needs or below proficient students. Some of those pre-Kers who chatter in Mandarin or read (already!) in Spanish may have tired of the extra effort and motivation (and possibly lack of sports) needed to stick with language intensive programs.

There are a number of co-location, coordinated charters. On that level, YY and LAMB feeding to a co-located, but separately run, secondary school kind of makes sense.
Stokes and MV don't seem to have much to gain from the effort it would take to "cooperate". They are probably sustainable (no pun meant) as stand alones. Stokes has scale. MV has focus.

But that 1,000 number sounds really, really optimistic.

Anonymous wrote:Can anyone point to a similar MS/HS public or public charter in another city?