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[quote=Anonymous][b]I'm one of these and would prefer the lottery stays the way it is - the school is very diverse and I prefer that to a majority of ABC kids. We can support knowledge of Chinese culture by going to China. [/b]

I'm an ABC parent who doesn't want a lottery for ABC kids, not at all.  I want a lottery for Chinese-speaking kids, like the one at the Mandarin immersion school my sister's kids attend in NYC.  Your kid's name does't go into the Chinese lottery there without getting through a 20-minute interview in a dialect (even at age 4) and many of the ABC kids can't pass the interview.  The kids who do pass are often native born Chinese, or the children of non-Chinese parents who knocked themselves out to ensure that Chinese was learned at home, generally through engaging Chinese nannies or au pairs.

Going to China is fine but it's just the tip of the iceberg culturally.  My non-Chinese spouse worked in Beijing for a couple years.  She likes to say that she didn't know how much she didn't know about Chinese culture until she'd been married to me for a while.

Incidentally, we're planning to switch to an immersion school in MoCo after this coming year.  I've had it with the out of touch admin people and parents who are there mainly to escape lousy IB schools.  Yes, it's a warm community, but I'm weary of all that goes with being a member of a tiny minority.

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