This Chinese immersion school has become a national role model. This year 446 kids were trying to get accepted and there were only 34 spots open. - - Donna Poisl
Jill Tucker, Chronicle Staff Writer
It was 1984 when a handful of San Francisco parents embarked on a controversial education experiment to open the first Chinese immersion public school program in the nation.
The idea was to immerse the students in Cantonese from the first day of school, teaching them math, science and other subjects in Chinese and gradually increasing English skills along the way. Success would mean that by the time the children finished elementary school, they would be grade-level literate in both languages.
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