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[quote=Anonymous]Haven't posted here yet, but am always glad to see ABCs talking back on these threads.  It is absurd that YY doesn't reach out to Chinese parents, and that the concept of offering bilingual kids preferential treatment in the admissions process for the school's benefit seems anathema to the (non-Chinese) administrators, and most parents (those who would need to make the case to the DC Charter Board).  It's a no brainer that a Chinese immersion school should be at least 1/3 Chinese-speaking kids, as in Rockville, preferably half, as in NYC.

We're ABCs who turned down a spot, not wanting to be fish out of water there either.  Nobody running the school seemed even to have heard for our dialect, spoken by more than 100 million Chinese.  There was just too big of a disconnect between Planet YY and us, with our stacks of DVDs from China, my in-laws living with us to provide childcare, our weekend Skype sessions with family in China, our month-long summer visits to HK etc.  Yes, the odd English-speaking kid with an extraordinary language learning aptitude will go on to become fluent in Mandarin, but I can't see most getting v. far under the circumstances they're learning the language.  China will remain a v. foreign place to the YY kids unless they live there as HS exchange students, college study abroad students or whatever.

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