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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are a dozen kids at YY who learn to understand some Mandarin, or another dialect, at home. They're not bilingual, or native speakers, because they seldom answer in Chinese outside class.  [b]The names of bilingual kids rarely go in the lottery hat, both because the lack of ethnic leadership doesn't work for their immigrant parents and because the lottery, which welcomes individual families rather than an ethnic community, runs contrary to Chinese cultural norms.[/b]  I recognize that this background will be of no interest to most YY parents.

As somebody already pointed out, the research supports that two-way immersion is far and away the best method for kids to learn a second or third language.  It follows that the one lottery for all should be scraped.  It won't be for at least 20 years, but it should be.

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Well, if these immigrant parents are anything like my immigrant parents and myself from another Asian country - they are not particularly interested in sending their Mandarin speaking kid who speaks little to no English to an immersion language school.  The goal for most immigrants who want their kids to excel at school is to focus on acquiring English as fast as possible:  You can't get into Harvard or do well on the SATs without knowing English.

At best, schools like YY can hope to attract ABCs who as PP state are not bilingual but whose dominant and native language is English...  and there is little point in recruiting English dominant kids.[/quote]

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