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[quote=Anonymous][/quote]  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. [/quote]

How do you know that many Chinese families can't get a spot?  As has been mentioned, the school doesn't collect this data, which I don't like.  You talk to a lot of DC Chinese families?  We do, and know very few who apply.  The conventional view in the Chinese area community IS that YY doesn't care if it has Chinese families, other than some token assimilated professional types.

I'm a YY Chinese parent who's tired of hearing about how happy we are as a group.  What YY parents don't know about Chinese and Chinese-American culture, even many of those who think they know plenty, could fill not just a book, but a 3-volume set.  We're not raised to emote in public, we're brought up to be polite and low key, which shouldn't be confused with happy.  I'm at YY because my IB school is bad, feeling jealous of those NYC and San Fran Chinese parents at better run immersion schools than YY.   The emphasis on diversity does come at the expense of the learning: you would need more Chinese parents and kids for the school to teach the language and culture very effectively but nobody much at YY gives a hoot.  The teachers are also polite and low key, not be confused with content.

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