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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP without an axe to grind, and male, so you may not want to dearie me, love.   '

We speak Shanghai'ese.  We're IB for a JKLM school and didn't try for YY.  I don't think I've ever met a non-Chinese who could carry on a conversation in a dialect other than, you guessed it, MANDARIN.

My only regret about not putting in for the YY lottery is the concern that I may end up with children who can't read or write Chinese, like me.  Learning to pronounce Mandarin is easy enough for a dialect speaker who makes the effort, or starts young enough, but characters are really difficult and time-consuming to learn.  I assure you that it's silly to divide tiny tots who speak Mandarin and other dialects into separate categories, but then we're not exactly short on silliness in DC Public.

One day, YY will have new administrators, maybe a really long time from now, but they will.  So even if the Charter Board doesn't come aound, maybe future admins will know enough to see the wisdom in plucking dialect speakers off the wait list along with Mandarin speakers.  Fancy that!!

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Doubtful that YY will ever be that "Chinese" with the accompanying favoritism, bribery and corruption that is a given in Chinese culture.  Guess the dialect speakers want a real Chinese school... [/quote]

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