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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]+1.  Haven't posted before but have been mulling over what promotes the hostility toward the Chinese speakers mentioned.  [b]Must be mainly their phenomenal success as an immigrant group.[/b]  You don't see a lot of Latino immigrants, some of whom have kids at the Sp immersion schools, leapfrogging over other low-SES Americans economically after just a generation in the US.  But it's not uncommon to meet Chinese in this city, and other big cities, who run take-out places and laundromats yet send their kids to top colleges. I just asked the couple managing the downtown dry cleaner I go to if they're planning to try to get their toddler twins into YY.  They said, no, we've heard it's not a school for Chinese families. We're moving to Rockville for kindergarten.

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The hostility is from the fact that many of the Chinese posters feel they should get preference in admissions for the (very) few spots available for their kids simply due to their ethnic heritage.  Even those who speak Cantonese and not Mandarin... b/c it'll benefit the pupils (the Cantonese speaker most of all since they stand a much better chance of getting in)  the blatant racism about the necessity for a Chinese principal and administrators in a town with an AA plurality.  The school is "Chinese for White people" and AA, Hispanic, Asians who don't have a Chinese heritage are getting in while many Chinese families can't get a spot.

How DARE they, don't they know Mandarin is for those who are ethnic Chinese first.[/quote]

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