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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids don't go to Yu Ying.  I have no opinions on the school.  But 90% of the families I've met who go there have a major connection (usually one mandarin speaking parent).  Have I just had weird luck?  I've probably met 20 families (none are close friends).[/quote]

Weird luck.  Most families at YY are escaping lousy IB schools, particularly schools on Capitol Hill and in Brookland.  A good many want language immersion, don't care what the language is.  Some of these families low-income, some are lower-middle-class, some are upper-middle-class.  Maybe one-quarter of the families at YY would have chosen Mandarin immersion without the push factors.   Almost all of these parents are white or black, a good many with kids adopted from China.  Mandarin, just one dialect, IS Chinese to YY helping explain why the DC immigrant population, largely Cantonese speaking, doesn't feel welcome there.  No ethnic Chinese administrators, no Cantonese-speaking American staff.  But all this is old hat on DCUM and non-Chinese love the school anyway.   Any of the folks you know are Chinese immigrants to the US?  We know lots, none at YY for more than a year.

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