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[quote=Anonymous]So you're not a Chinese-speaking DC parent with kids in public school, so you're probably not aware that the community of ABCs raising bilingual children is small; we tend to keep up, and hang out at the same dim sum places and weekend language programs. We hear about developments at YY from the few native speakers who've stayed, and know all about the politics of education in Cal vs. DC. We know that YY admins do want to ratchet up the speaking component of the program, and that their solution has been to add PreS3 entirely in Chinese (3 years ago). But adding preschool in Mandarin won't change anything as long as upper grades students don't need to meet standards for speaking Chinese. An older kid can hardly speak without the family ever coming under any pressure to exit the immersion track. YY could have offered a serious Chinese program. It hasn't. Maybe things don't change in DCPC, but I haven't given up on YY and DCI emerging as good options for native speaking kids one day. Now and again, I attend charter roundtables on improving immersion schools.  [/quote]

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