Reply to CHARTERS MAY MERGE AT WALTER REED (The DC International School, IB Diploma Programme)

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "CHARTERS MAY MERGE AT WALTER REED (The DC International School, IB Diploma Programme)"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]

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.  
  
[/quote]

So are you a YY parent?  If you have so many issues with the school, you should go elsewhere...  and not send your DC to DCI.  Easy decision.  Hope you find a school that will serves your family's needs b/c YY and the future DCI won't for all the reasons you mentioned.[/quote]

Easy to say "go elsehwere, sweetie" off handedly but rarely easy in practice.  I rarely post on DCUM and I'm not Chinese, but we just tried to lottery out of yy to schools we hoped would provide rigorous instruction in English and struck out.  We're saving for a property in NW to become IB for Deal.  The issues raised on the Chinese vs. Spanish  thread point not only to serious problems DCI is going to have in cultivating an intl outlook, but problems our society as a whole is going to have in contending with a rising China.  [b]I didn't read "anti-AA" comments on the previous thread,[/b] I read what Chinese culture is like.  This is something the majority of yy parents don't get, or try to, because they've never spent time in Chinese-speaking countries or in Chinese-American communities, haven't studied Chinese, don't have Chinese friends, and aren't planning to.  What's "bizarre" is the way some of these charters work, not what annoyed parents/tax payers/voters say about yy. The boosters will have another hissy fit in response.  Let 'em, denying reality ad nauseum only works so well.
  
[/quote]

Not the poster you responded to, but I read a lot of anti-AA sentiment on that thread.  It was horrible.  The bi-racial mandarin speaking administrator who worked in grants was not Chinese enough for the Chinese community because she is of AA-Chinese origin.  The school should not have an AA principal, but instead a Chinese principal.  It did not matter whether the desired Chinese principal spoke Mandarin, or not.  The school should offer quotas for Cantonese speaking families, for there are very very few Mandarin speaking famiies in the District, so any Chinese would do.  This from a website that normally sees quotas as the next thing to the devil incarnate.  That thread was sickening in many ways.

BTW--I wish you and your child well in the school that best fits your child's needs, but is it really necessary to knock a school that may fit the needs of other children.  And I agree that YY is not for everyone, but neither is Deal, Lamb, Latin, etc. for everyone.  That's the beauty of choice and opportunities.  [/quote]

+1 9:53
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics