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You do not seem to understand the DC charter school system at all.[/quote]

The problem is that I do understand it, all too well.  I'm on the board of directors of a DC charter, resigning shortly because I'm not on board with their policy of celebrating Apartheid education (the franchise is happy supporting and creating schools that aren't diverse).

One-way immersion is too far from best practices for me to cheer about it, or claim that it's the best we can or should do in this city outside of Oyster.  You cheer if that works for you, but I can't see how your kids will accrue the benefit.  Why let MoCo and NoVa walk away with the local academic edge as far as the eye can see?

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Are those MoCo and NoVa schools you reference Charter Schools?  If not, they are not relevant.  Like NoVa and MoCo, DCPS allows dual lotteries for their immersion schools.[/quote]

I wish they weren't relevant.  Kids learn immersion Chinese in those suburban schools and, one day, they will be taking the very same AP, SAT II and IB Diploma Chinese language exams as DCI Mandarin-track students.  
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I live in DC, I'm not planning to move from DC, and I am a YY parent.  Honestly I really don't care what is happening in NoVA or MoCo.  I don't live in VA or MD.  And given the laws and rules of DC, and the fact that some brilliant and dedicated parents 7 or so years ago put in the major sweat and hard work to start Yu Ying and find it's current home and turn it into the IB school it is today, I am grateful for the chance my kids have to attend.  I absolutely believe that schools can learn from other systems and there is always room for improvement.  But you are concerned about kids who aren't your kids and what they'll be competing against, when the fact is that they will STILL have language skills that are incredibly competitive and useful and will serve them really really well.  I am not worried in the least that a MoCo kid will outscore my kids - hey, more power to them.  They probably worked really hard to get to that point.

But I live in DC, I want my kids in school in DC, and I am humbly grateful that they have a chance to attend YY and DCI.  Grateful and excited.  And I give major props to all the parents and adults who made all the HRCSs happen, no matter what their focus, as well as the staff who run the HRDCPS schools.  It's an unimaginably hard job to do, and I give all kinds of props to those who've shown they can do it.

And did I mention I live in DC?  And I want my kids in school in DC?  Right.  So discussion of rules and policies that currently don't apply in DC ARE irrelevant until/unless they change.  And I am also glad that you PP, and everyone else complaining about what YY isn't doing, are free to move to MoCo or NoVa or MA or wherever else you think they do this better, and go to school there.  But please don't trouble yourself worrying about how my kids will do up against MoCo kids.  They will be fine.

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