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[quote=Anonymous][/quote]  Huh?  Yu Ying is a public charter school, not a social agency, with a primary mission of providing a bilingual education to it's students.  Are you seriously proposing they spend whatever their limited resources on cultural outreach with ABCs to don't have children there?

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Russian-speaking poster here who didn't enroll my child.

The above post, this whole discussion, and the environment at YY, reminds me so much of the way I learned English at elite Moscow schools in the waning days of the Soviet Union.  We had Native English-speaking teachers and learned a great deal of grammar and vocabulary from them.  We would even host visiting private school groups from the US.  It was only after I immigrated to this country that I realized how little I'd actually understood about American culture and values during my studies.  This was because I'd hardly interacted with ordinary Americans, particularly peers or their parents, before.  We had studied English on Soviet terms, which limited us.  Many aspects of Western culture shocked me, and a lot of what was said to me was lost in translation for a long time.

I want my kid to learn a language from those who expose him to the good, the bad and the ugly of the culture the language is rooted in, whatever language it happens to be.  If I weren't an immigrant, I might not have minded all those black and white faces at YY.

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