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I do appreciate the background that you have provided, very much. However, it only reinforces the challenges that any Mandarin school in DC would face. Getting rid of the lottery is not an option; therefore it doesn't matter if that would make it more culturally acceptable for Chinese families.

Many years ago I spent a year teaching English to adults in Taiwan. There were some students who were so highly motivated that they blew through all of their work and pestered me for more. They took advantage of every opportunity to practice and ask questions, and some students did quite well despite the fact that a) I was not in any way a trained teacher and b) the learning was strictly one way.

Now, would those students have done better if they'd had two years of full English immersion at ages 3 and 4 and then gone on to study English for 13 more years? What do you think?[/quote]

Yes, they'd have done better. English pronunciation is tough for Chinese adults who didn't learn the language as kids. We often struggle to understand our Chinese au pairs, and they're barely out of their teens.  [/quote]

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