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[quote=Anonymous]OP here.  False dichotomy or not, YY's bilingual situation warrants scrutiny.  We know that the school doesn't involve more than a dozen fully bilingual ethnic (or half ethnic) children from teachers, several of whom speak our dialect and have been willing to do head count for us.  We find that YY parents, and prospective parents, who aren't native speakers tend to assume that there are many bilingual kids in the school when there aren't.

Why is accurate information about YY's bilingual situation so difficult to come by?  The administrations won't provide it, no data on bilingualism is collected, and no screening or initial testing of bilingual kids is done.  The lack of data makes it easy for administrators and parents to claim "we have lots of Chinese-speaking ethnic families!"

What makes the other immersion schools different in regard to their treatment of bilingual families and bilingualism, apart from the obvious DCPS two lotteries-DCPC one-lottery divide?

Thanks for sharing, PPs.

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