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

This comment is pure BS.  Read the thread - nobody critiized the biracial administrator -only 1 or 2 pps even knew about her.   Nobody said the principal had to be Chinese, just Chinese speaking with at least one ethnic administrator involved in outreach.   Nobody talked about quotas for Cantonese speakers but some posters (AA, white, Asian) suggested a lottery for bilingual Chinese, the norm at highly succesful immersion schools in NY and San Fran, for the good of the school.  But everyone agreed that the charter board wouldn't agree, at least not for years to come.  Easy to figure out which pps know Chinese culture, or want to understand it, and which don't.

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