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[quote=Anonymous]"I did not realize the PARENTS had to be knowledgable and sensitive about the culture of the foreign language their kid is learning at school. My Asian immigrant parents could care less about French, German, Ancient Greek and Latin - the languages their kids learned at school. Seems YY parents are held to a different standard."

So you studied French, German, Ancient Greek or Latin in an immersion setting?  American parent from one of the other immersion schools here who was lucky enough to attend a bilingual French-English institution in Ottawa as a kid.  Nearly half my classmates spoke French at home, one of the best things about the place.  I learned a tremendous amount about Quebecois culture from them, and their parents.

Nobody's arguing that the YY parents are to be held to a "different standard," but having so few native speakers involved does turn off some.  Boosters on these threads try to make it sound like it's just a few entitled Chinese posters who aren't happy with the size of the bilingual parent and student group, but I turned YY down for that reason.  Moreover, parents at some of the other schools aren't crazy about YY's domination of the DCI founding effort because you folks can come across as unpleasant and myopic.

Get a clue, native speakers are great for an immersion school, even if their culture isn't PC!  Many of us believe in 2 lotteries for these schools, and don't think it's impossible that we'll ever get them.

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