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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My guess is that many parents who don't speak the immersion language, or necessarily know much about the culture behind it, are threatened by those who do and, hence, don't want to see bilingual kids being given preferential treatment in the admissions process.  Really too bad when you consider that academics who study bilingual immersion programs (e.g. Canadian educators looking at French programs) have found that the "two-way" immersion model, where kids learn language from one another as much as from instructors, is more effective than the "one-way" model, where kids only learn the immersion language from teachers (e.g. Yu Ying).   
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Bad guess. I'm a non-Chinese YY parent and I'd love to see a separate application process for native speakers. The more native speakers we can get in the classrooms, the stronger our kids' Chinese will be. I do not, however, believe the law allows is.[/quote]

Another YY parent who feels the same, though I would point out that YY is a Mandarin school.  I see no reason to offer preferential admission to Cantonese speakers, even if it were legal.  Most of the vitriol I see on these boards from bilingual families seems to favor preferential treatment for speakers of any Chinese dialect, which I do not agree with.[/quote]

Folks, to clarify -- Chinese has lots of dialects, of which Mandarin and Cantonese are the two most well known in the West.
ALL dialects use the same Chinese characters.
Cantonese-speaking students tend to pick up Mandarin very quickly.  The characters are the same, the grammar and structure are similar.

To further clarify -- not all kids who speak Chinese are ethnically Chinese.  Some are from mixed families.  Others have lived a few years in China or Taiwan with their families and learned the language that way.  Still others are from overseas communities all around the world which have heritage language speakers. [/quote]

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