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The San Francisco Mandarin Immersion Parents Council met yesterday evening to discuss the district’s draft middle school plan and what changes, if any, the group might like to propose to parents and the district leadership. Here are my notes from that discussion… Summary The Jose Ortega parents are generally satisfied with the current middle school plan,…
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Yesterday we reported that we had no information about how the Mandarin immersion program would be handled within the new middle school plan. Upon closer inspection, the school district’s presentation on the subject does give some information about this. The answer was on the 40th slide of their giant powerpoint deck (you need to scroll…
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Hot off the press! Several San Francisco Mandarin immersion parents are attending the school board meeting tonight and one got a copy of the proposed middle school feeder patterns which she kindly scanned and shared with us. Click here to see it for yourself. In summary, the document seems to contradict what we thought we…
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Last Tuesday three other parents from the San Francisco Mandarin Immersion Parents Council and I met with program administrator Kevin Chávez to discuss the San Francisco school district’s plans for Mandarin immersion in middle school. We came armed with a list of questions, but the information he was providing quickly overtook our agenda. For example,…
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In about two years, the first wave of Mandarin immersion students in San Francisco’s public schools will be entering middle school and parents from Starr King Elementary and Jose Ortega Elementary are working to have an impact on how this unfolds. Recently our middle school committee met to discuss what’s happening and decide on next…
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By Katie Olson Thanks to everyone who attended the Mandarin immersion middle school committee meeting #4 on Sept. 23. Present: Katie Olson, Kellyn Dong, Ken (a new parent from the Chinese Immersion School at DeAvila), Eos de Feminis (SI parent from Marshall leading the SI MS group), Amy Risch (also SI parent from Marshall very…
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By Katie Olson These are the notes from the middle school committee meeting #3, which was held on September 7, 2009. Spanish Immersion Middle School Mary and I were at the Spanish immersion meeting on 9/7 in which they discussed their concerns. In brief, they suspect that they will graduate at least 50 more 5th…
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