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[quote=Anonymous]Stumble across one of these YY threads w/out a connection to the school and you're likely to get the impression that only Chinese parents would like to see 2 lotteries.  Wrong!

There are in fact other parents who thoughtfully consider the 1-way vs. 2-way immersion model issues, arriving at the inconvenient truth that our kids are being short-changed by the charter board's myopia and political wimpiness on the subject, coupled with that of the non-Chinese admin team.  I even know one who dropped in at the annual "Two-Way Bilingual Immersion and Dual Language Programs" conference in Newport Beach CA earlier this month when he was out on a business trip.  http://twowaycabe.org/  Shame that neither YY's leadership nor the charter board's attended.

What you need to understand if you're on the outside looking in is that YY parents are like a group of refugees who don't feel it would be good manners to complain about the quality of the relief being provided by an aid agency, or to question how the international humanitarian system works.  They're just counting their lucky stars to have escaped a "complex emergency" (diabolical IB schools).

As YY parents, we owe it to our kids, or maybe just the next generation in the city, to have more a vision, to challenge the many who do feel threatened by the savvy of the small bilingual group, to educate our leadership and community members.

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