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Local charter school to offer Mandarin program
Published: Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
This September, some local grade schoolers will be learning more than the basics on their first day of class when the Princeton International Academy Charter School (PIACS) opens its doors — and debuts its Mandarin Chinese immersion program — to 170 students ...(back to the article)
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Haha this is really cool. Zhou Laoshi should spearhead this program, yo.
Sadly, the charter school system in New Jersey creates situations like the Princeton Charter School and now the PIACS which are specialized, elite schools at tax payer expense. The PCS provides a "rigorous academic environment" in what is already one of the highest rated school system in the state. So who are their students? Overwhelmingly white, whose parents are pushing them at an early age, but who want a private school experience at tax payer expense.
Charter schools fill an important niche in poor school districts, but in a district like Princeton's (and West Windsor-Plainsboro) they provide "open" but de facto segregation, socially and academically.
Creating a school like this seems to be an unfortunate misuse of resources. taking advantage of a loophole to create a new school where there is no need, and probably creating a pressure cooker environment where again there is no need and students would be better served by the existing excellent schools here.
PLATO is HAPPY.
PLATO has determined that there is no need to create an elite Orange Kingdom when there is already a Crimson Kingdom, that to create a rigorous academic environment for future diplomats and business leaders is a waste of resources of our society, and that to excel in a specialized field at a tender age with proper training is segregation.
God bless the Orange Kingdom.
Isn't this school open to anybody who applies? Are there immersion programs in Princeton's public schools? If the public schools are as great as they claim, then they shouldn't worry. If not, there is an incentive to start offering early immersion.