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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.  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.  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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I don't expect you to answer PP, because you've already shown that you won't or you can't.  But does anyone else have theories about why this person is this wound up about something that Yu Ying couldn't change even if it was their biggest priority (admissions preference for ethnic, native-speaking Chinese students)?  What situation or personality that sounds fairly intelligent chooses to ignore this reality and yet twist and twist and twist over this issue without letting up?[/quote]

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