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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, but the Spanish immersion charters still attract a good many native speaking students, and strive to meet their particular academic needs. The Mundo Verde student body is thought to be at least one quarter native speakers. YY has never had more than 1 or 2 kids per grade who are truly native speakers (equally at home with Chinese and English, or speaking more Chinese than English), literally a handful of more than 500 students. [/quote]

But that's due to the demographics of DC.  How many Chinese speaking 3 year olds are there in DC?  [/quote]

NP, from the Brent district. Brent now has a % of kids of Chinese of descent in PreS3-2nd grade to rival Thomson & YY.

What those who argue that the dearth of Chinese-speaking kids at YY is all due to "the demographics of DC" don't get is this is only half the story.

Looking for an alienating experience as a bilingual Chinese-speaking family? Attend a YY open house. I've done that twice, six years apart, and wound up leaving early both times. I left thinking, wow, the principal and vp aren't even allowing for the fact that a bilingual Chinese-speaking family might be in this room. [/quote]

Can you explain what they did or said that gave you that assumption?[/quote]

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