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[quote=Anonymous]That's all good stuff, but it's not 'simple' to add a language-dominant lottery in DC. It's not a preference a DC charter can offer. YY has lobbied for it. LAMB did it for years, but was busted, and no longer does it (with resulting change in demographics). It doesn't seem to be a preference the charter board is willing to consider...perhaps if all the immersion charter schools banded together, with stats from other districts that allow this, they might have a chance.

I didn't say it would be simple, not after many years living in DC, but I'm not clear why DCPC keeps blocking a development running contrary to best practices on an epic scale. Even turgid, barely competent DCPS embraces, celebrates and builds dual immersion programs. If they want to recruit low SES Chinese speakers, they're there for the taking in the fast food community around town. I'm not abandoning hope that the schools will do the research and band together eventually.

It's funny, YY parents fend off native speakers on these threads, rather than seeing them as a resource to harness out of self interest. By contrast, when YY parents hear my kids speaking Chinese around the neighborhood (too often bickering, bragging, whining or complaining), they often want to engage.  They ask for tips on how to get their own kids to speak like that. I tell them my children's Chinese is just average for students in our heritage school. We like talking to YY families.

Too bad that DCUM often brings out the worst in parents. [/quote]

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