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Because (as has been stated in this forum ad nauseum) preference based on language ability is against the charter law.  Perhaps the Chinese community could channel their frustration towards getting the law changed.  YY [b]would love to be able to offer preference based on Chinese fluency, [/b]but it is not allowed to do so.  [/quote]

I don't believe this for a second. The fact that YY has never set up a system for dialect transition (common at Mandarin immersion programs elsewhere in the country) and won't hire American native speakers tells me that they don't care one way or the other if Chinese-speaking kids are enrolled.

They insist in teaching immigrant and ABC kids who are fluent in another dialect Mandarin as though they don't speak Chinese.  Their working assumption is that no student is fully bilingual in Chinese and English. We turned down a spot after getting to grips with this arrangement for our dialect-speaking child. There's nothing anybody can do because only a bilingual family would care, and there are few of us here.

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