OLD TOWN — Keith Thomas' fifth-grade twins are studying Mandarin Chinese, while some of their classmates at LaSalle Language Academy chose Arabic or Urdu.
When it's time for the twins and their peers to throw their names into the hat that is the Chicago Public Schools high school selection process, those years of language could be tossed out the window, some parents say.
The reason: There is no language academy at the high school level in Chicago, leaving parents of children who have spent years studying in language-focused elementary schools to ask, "Where do our kids go next?
On today's DNAinfo Radio Extra, Paul Biasco examines what the future of language education is in CPS schools:
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