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[quote=Anonymous]^^ No bashing involved.  As another PP pointed out, the Ivies and Little Ivies essentially share an applicant pool.  Latin kids aren't being admitted to either group yet, but then they've only had one graduating class.

[b]"Incoming YY PK parent. I haven't heard of anyone (have friends at the school) who wouldn't prefer more bilingual peers. Why would you think you are one of the few who would like that?"[/b]

Did you catch the recent "Ch vs. Sp Immersion thread?  Or the similar YY one in Nov?  Many YY parents saying we dislike local bilingual Chinese (because they're racist, insular and stuck up), don't want more, don't need them for our kids to learn Mandarin or about Chinese culture, don't support their wish for an ethnic Chinese administrator to be hired, so to hell with them etc.  A commonly expressed sentiment was "more bilingual peers, and their parents, would change YY and we don't want that."  Another was "we love our non-Chinese, non-Chinese-speaking principal, she's perfect."

Both threads ran to hundreds of posts and contained much virulently anti-Chinese content.  It's one thing to say "Hey, more bilingual peers would be great" when, to my knowledge, the YY PA outreach committee doesn't include a Cantonese speaker (Cantonese is the dialect most spoken in the DC bilingual community).  The school doesn't keep track of which kids are bilingual, speaking which dialects at home, so when you raise these issues, with administrators and at the PA, educators and parents have cover to deny the deficit.  I believe the off-the-record, teacher-furnished 2% bilingual figure, and dropping, being bandied about.

I wasn't actually surprised by the parochial content of the threads.  Most of the YY parents I rub shoulders with hardly seem to know a thing about China or the culture, not where the major cities and provinces are located, not the major dialects, nor the major holidays, nor do they seem to care... This is the group posied to help launch the wonderfully international, much in demand and outward-looking DCI.

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