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By and large, YY parents (at least those already in!) would love to see preference for native speakers. It's the general community of middle-class DC parents who DON'T want it to change -- because that would lead to fewer spots for [i]their[/i] kids. [/quote]

You are wrong.  [b]Within the school, there are significant numbers of parents on both sides of this discussion. [/b] There are a lot of educators whose kids attend YY who understand WHY the rules about no language preference are what they are.  We ALL would like more native speaking kids in all grades, but some of us see the benefit of a truly random lottery as greater than the benefit from offering language preference.  It is not at all a majority who wants preference, though if there was a way to get both equity and more native speakers, that would be awesome.[/quote]

Right, both sides of this discussion. Problem is, the views of parents on admissions policies are irrelevant in DCPC. Parents have no say on preference for native speakers at immersion charters. YY parents could lobby for that to change, but haven't (understandably, who wants to make oneself unpopular, or beat one's head against a wall). YY parents will be able to influence the choice of the next principal, but that's it.

As things stand at YY, you either fork out to host Chinese au pairs for years, you're a native speaker who consistently speaks Chinese to your children (and requires them to answer in it), you have a fantastically verbal child who picks the language up well even if you don't supplement, or your YY student doesn't speak very good Chinese. The trick is not to mind.[/quote]

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