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[quote=Anonymous]00:08, PP here, I guess what I was trying to say was don't assume an asian face means native speaker. Immigrant kids and american born asian kids seem worlds away in fluency. In principle, I'd support differentiating them in the classroom. Hearing native speaking frequently has highly motivated my child to improve her conversational skills, so I don't know if I'd want to remove that exposure entirely.

14:21 - we had a good experience in the bilingual class at chinese school. They were non asian kids, adoptees, half chinese, or with chinese parents who spoke something other than mandarin. It went slower. For a lot of kids it's a huge pressure from their parents, it's every weekend, and a lot of extra homework. That's why long term we broke off into a small group class instead of joining the regular classes. I think the experience for kids without immigrant parents is a lot less miserable. My child is not an adoptee, but I know several. If it were my child I might not require years of language class if it wasn't her interest, but I'd want her to know some basics and have some ear for it in case she wanted to revisit it when she was older. As some of them are getting to the tween years there seems to be some origin angst emerging.[/quote]

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