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[quote=Anonymous]You know, I now get what makes people so riled up about this issue.  At the heart of the matter is this conflict between YY's stated mandate as an alternative to regular public schools, and the essentially selective nature of its curriculum.  Chinese immersion is a tough track, and naturally not all children will succeed there; a child that succeeds will be a particular kind of child with natural affinity, family resources to support commute and reinforcement at home and scholastic aptitude.  In a magnet school, that would all be fine because it is understood that magnets are not meant for every child, but only for a particular subset of children.  I mean, no one at TJ would argue with admissions testing and selectivity.

Yet YY is a "public school alternative" so it by definition cannot cater only to a particular kind of child.  The only barrier to admission is lottery luck.

Is this correct, more or less?

Then the problem is that YY offers a curriculum that in all fairness, should be offered only to a prescreened pool of learners, and offers it to everyone, expecting everyone to succeed.  But not everyone will, so feelings are hurt.  Yes?[/quote]

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