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[quote=Anonymous]YY parents come here reporting that "everybody wants more native speakers" in the school. But what do they mean by this? Native Mandarin speakers? Not a quarter of Chinese immigrants to the US could be considered native Mandarin speakers, and they speak sub-dialects that don't bear a close resemblance to YY Chinese among themselves.

Do they mean native speakers of any dialect - as in 3 and 4 year-olds who speak Cantonese? MoCo offers thoughtful dialect transition support and Cantonese-speaking admins, YY not. So what's in it for bilingual families who don't speak Mandarin, other than support for writing and reading, and maybe an escape hatch to avoid a failing IB school (very few bilingual Chinese would move into an area with such a school; they're either too insular, e.g. the Chinatown crowd, or too education minded).

What I hear from parents whose kids speak good Chinese is "YY doesn't know what to do with kids who come already speaking Chinese, no matter what kind of Chinese it is." For that to change, YY will need admins who speak Cantonese and Mandarin. Admins like that could iron out logical policies and teaching methods to define, attract, and retain these native speakers everybody supposedly wants.  Short of that, I don't see them trying to lottery in, no matter how much they're "wanted."  [/quote]

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