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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP is inventing a false "spectrum" because all admissions to charter schools in DC are by lottery only.  Anyone can apply, anyone can get in.

Now  some "ethnic" parents might choose a school that teaches a language that reflects their own heritage, that is true.  But that doesn't mean other families aren't choosing the same school for different reasons.

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YY doesn't seem to know or care that unless you're a fairly assimilated 2nd or 3rd generation Chinese immigrant family, you strongly prefer safety in numbers where studying Chinese is concerned (hence the popularity of the MoCo weekend heritage language schools).  One reason that YY has so few bilingual kids is that the anybody-can-apply-as-an-individual approach doesn't do it for a Chinese community.  For cultural reasons, ordinary Chinese need to be welcomed as a community by an ethnic administrator, or they aren't coming.  Not that this bothers many at YY.  The Spanish immersion schools seem to deal with DC Latino neighborhood communities as communities.  Their teachers are Latino Americans prepared to initiate outreach, not guest workers on one-year visas.

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