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YY's charter excludes new admissions after a certain grade because it doesn't have the resources to bring an older child who has never been exposed to Mandarin up to speed with his/her classmates, and it's not allowed to screen out applicants who haven't had any Mandarin.  Washington Latin's situation is different; years of language classes have nothing on even one year of actual immersion.  Add to this the fact that children's facility for learning new languages declines with age (at least a few years ago, 9 was considered the upper threshold for most kids to start learning in order to gain fluency), and the fact that I'm not aware of any current requirements for a Latin accent.  Plus the fact that Latin is an Indo-European language that uses the Latin alphabet.  [/quote]

Ask any immigrant with young children or ESL teacher.  If the kids are 7 yrs old or under when they arrive in the US, the kid will be English dominant and many will not be able to able to speak their native/birth language except in a very rudimentary manner within 2 yrs unless they get a lot of support to maintain their native language.  Many of you seem to forget we're not talking about college students or even teenagers here.

Seriously, I doubt allowing a few bilingual kids into YY when they are 4, 5, 6, etc. will make a lot of difference to the language acquisition of their peers not to mention the added logistical issue of testing to see how proficient they are in "Mandarin" they have to be to get such preference.

All the belly-aching and criticisms aside, the main complaint appears to be how hard it is to get in - like many of the popular charters in DC.  OP, you are very lucky!  Best wishes on whatever you decide![/quote]

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