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Thank you for this illuminating post, and your even handed-tone.  Unfortunate situation, but at least you've taken the trouble to explain it.  The PA may not have the legal standing to effect charter board outcomes, or even YY board outcomes, but focused groups of parents do have influence in DC Charter, and could surely exert more pressure to improve matters.  It's just that YY wasn't supported by a Chinese community from the get go, meaning that involving one belatedly is highly unlikely.

I talk to Cantonese-speaking merchants in DC's Chinatown who chuckle when they describe how, when YY first came knocking, they convinced reps from the school that they didn't want their kids to focus on learning Mandarin.  What they really didn't want were non-Chinese administrators and, yes, to deal with a slew of white and black families who judged and annoyed them.  They sent their kids to cozy heritage Mandarin classes in MoCo now, and still do.

What I'd like to see are barriers between these communities broken down, however that works.  Running YY as is may facilitate effective teaching of Mandarin, but it's fundamentally a lazy approach.  Language learning without contending with a bothersome, insular Chinese community with much to teach outsiders, a community which includes includes everybody from waiters and street vendors to a member of the Cabinet.

So at it's inception YY reached out to the Chinese community and was rebuffed. Rebuffed because it did not want to deal with a bunch of black and white people.   They were annoyed.

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