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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]This is what charter critics call a barrier to entry. Pull up that drawbridge when you go into that castle, why don't you?[/b][/quote]

What a load of hooey.  An actual "barrier to entry" comes when you can NOT GET IN [b]because of some policy or attitude[/b].  If OP actually has a spot or is likely to get one and then gets in, nothing said on DCUM can stop her/him from taking their spot.

Nice try, but learn a little about what you pretend to know about before trying to make people feel bad about the very real advice they're giving.  OP can ignore it or take it, although from all the families I know at YY I'd say it's great advice and anyone not committed in a big way to that language should pass.[/quote]

I would say shunning a family because they're ambivalent about Mandarin is an attitude. IF the 'acceptable' pool for YY is the say 25% of families in DC who would be really interested in Chinese language / culture, then you're selecting for a pretty elite group.[/quote]

There are a lot of bad things said about YY, but no one has ever reported going there and then being "shunned" or having anyone quiz them on how badly they wanted Mandarin before they accepted their spot.  So stop making up stuff about YY, because at the end of the day attitudes on DCUM do not equal the school's policy or application process or even actual parent experiences sometimes.  That said, it's absolutely fine and legit for some parents at YY to feel that anyone with cold feet because they're not sure they want to go, it's fine for those parents to say "No, don't come if you're not sure and Mandarin isn't a priority for you".  Parents are entitled to their opinions, but that doesn't mean that all parents feel one way either way, or that the school itself is somehow filtering out would-be attendees based on some test of commitment.

If you get a slot through the lottery, you have an ability to accept it.  No attitudes anywhere will prevent you from accepting if you want to, yet if you ask on DCUM what people think, you don't get to only get responses from those who enthusiastically want ambivalent, non-committed-to-Mandarin parents.  You get what you get in terms of attitudes, and you really can't tell who really is a parent there or not here, so consider that too.[/quote]

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