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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]  Seriously, I doubt allowing[b] a few bilingual kids [/b]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. [/quote]

So why just allow a few, why not have YY knock itself out to find, and keep, as many as it can below a 50% threshold of the student population, like Cleveland, Tyler SI, Oyster, MV and DC Bilingual?  Couldn't the logisitcal issue of testing Mandarin-speaking kids be overcome with a little political will.  Chinese-immersion schools elsewhere in the US (MN, MA, CA, UT) do it.

We know a (black) family who asked about switching from a MoCo ES immersion school to YY for 3rd grade.  They were told no, of course, although their concern about YY's Mandarin was that it wouldn't be challenging enough for kids used to speaking Chinese to many ethnic classmates and their parents.

At some point, doesn't common sense have to intervene with these policies?  Actively keeping a fully bilingual child out of the higher grades sounds like a poor way to serve the school, and something small the PA could change if it wanted.  Has it tried?
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We applied to YY, MV, LAMB, Stokes, and Tyler SI.  Lamb was the only school that had a separate lottery for Spanish dominant families.  The other schools were the luck of the draw.  Lamb was grandfathered in under the old charter laws.  If Lamb was created today, they too, would have a prohibition against separate lotteries.  [/quote]

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