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[quote=Anonymous][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.[/quote]

See, I saw racism on the part of the anti-YY crowd with the following post:
[quote]As for racial predujice in Chinese culture, it is odd to Americans, but it's also very much a factor, so no use getting bent out of shape about it. I remember my kid once refusing to eat at an Indian restaurant because "Indians are dirty people," something he learned from Chinese caregivers (commonly held view even in the Chinese diaspora). When I discovered that the YY principal was black I thought, oh right, a practical approach to drawing in the area Chinese community. [/quote] http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/90/242151.page

I'd say that Yu Ying is a school that's full of very globally-thinking parents and kids--a full third of my child's PK classmates had at least one parent for whom English was not his/her native language.  There are a large number of immigrant families at the school, and they're excited by the DCI concept in part because that for some of them it means that their kids will get a chance to study their parent's native language along with Chinese.  [/quote]

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