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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]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 more about why these meetings felt alienating to you? Did you feel hostility toward bilingual Chinese-speaking families, or did you feel that the program was aimed at beginning speakers rather than bilingual speakers?
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They won't have confidence unless there is, at a minimum, a principal or HOS who is fluent in Chinese.

This isn't an irrational concern; not long ago DCPS put a principal in charge of a dual-immersion Spanish-English elementary and the parents went crazy. That principal was replaced shortly thereafter.[/quote]

But what exactly was it about the meeting that felt "alienating"? That is a very strong word to use, so I'm wondering what made the meeting feel that way. 
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Was the meeting conducted in two languages? Is that how the parents association operates?

That's how it is done at a dual-language schools that want to welcome native speakers of the target language. Not doing this is enough to make a family feel alienated, especially at a school that is supposed to be an immersion school.

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