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[quote=Anonymous]Posters are rehashing arguments made in the earlier thread.

YY parents don't seem to understand why the DC Chinese community as a whole isn't drawn to the school.  What you're getting are some well-assimilated, high-SES families, mostly residing in Upper NW, for reasons already explored (particularly the lack of a Cantonese-speaking administrator).  It's a disconnect the school isn't trying to address and, from the sounds of it, never will - other priorities.  Non-Chinese parents don't understand that a firm grounding in another dialect is an excellent foundation for readily learning Mandarin at any stage in life.  You can explain this to them, as I did on the earlier thread, without getting through.  What those of us who grew up speaking Chinese know is that the main obstacle to Mandarin isn't learning to speak, it's learning to read and write characters, and retaining the knowledge.  Most of my Hong Kong relatives didn't learn Mandarin until adulthood, and they speak it pretty well.

The issue now is whether DCI will come off and thrive, adding a good quality public MS to the small number in the District.  I'm skeptical partly because YY has a chip on its shoulder.  Hard to imagine the parents and administrators playing nicely with the other schools involved.  No need for that chip, guys.  You can do this.

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