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Forgot to say - the first group, the "no new students after 2nd grade until 6th grade" group, feel that way because[b] there is a priority on mantaining the lottery as the only way to enter the school (no testing in, becaue that would give families who can pay for Mandarin classes/tutoring/nannies a huge advantage). [/b] I don't know anyone in that group that doesn't get why it wouldn't be great to be able to have more already bilingual students fill those slots, but it's an equity issue.  But NONE of those people (or people in the "let students test in" group) want to see non-Mandarin speaking students thrown in with Mandarin speaking students in 3rd, 4th or 5th grades.[/quote]

Regarding the statement in bold: It's hardly a "huge advantage" to have the opportunity to enter a school that's PS-6 in 3rd grade, where: (1) seats will only be available if students leave the school; (2) your child must meet some sort of Mandarin proficiency test; and (3) you have to win a lottery among the people who meet #2 in order to get the very very few seats available because of #1. The idea that someone will give their kid 4 or 5 years of tutoring on the off chance they could get into YY for grades 3-6 is crazy.[/quote]

You're either clueless or purposefully being misleading.  Mandarin is the flavor of the month (and is likely to be for years to come), and parents are ALREADY investing in Mandarin language resources for their tiny ones, NOT just on the off-chance they'll get into YY, but because Mandarin is a priority for them and if they don't get into a Mandarin bilingual school, they'll find another way to supplement their kid learning it.  The interest in Mandarin hardly begins and ends with YY.  We were getting ready to send our DC to a Mandarin language school in our last city before getting to DC and arrived here already knowing about YY and hoping to get in.  But regardless of admissions (or not) to YY, Mandarin was and is very important to us.[/quote]

You need to understand that in this city that opening upper grades up without a proficiency test, you ABSOLUTELY WOULD BE competing in a lottery against many other families whose kids have absolutely no preparation in Mandarin - and in many cases likely little genuine interest in Mandarin as well.  There are a ton of families out there who will take anything they can get without any real regard or consideration of the stated mission and purpose of the school, much less any commitment to it.  That's a basic reality in the charters as well as DCPS specialized schools with tons of evidence to support it - that posters here need to understand, like it or not.

This is why people keep bringing up proficiency tests.[/quote]

There is no one in this thread who doesn't understand that, and right now YY doesn't and has no plans to do that until 6th grade when other no-Mandarin kids will also be joining from other feeders.  No one is confused about what you just said.[/quote]

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