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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][/quote]  YY's population is thought to be around 5% Chinese (adopted girls not included) and 2% fully bilingual.  [/quote]

How do you come by these stats?  It's been mentioned that YY doesn't keep track of who's Chinese and who's bilingual, at least not officially, and certainly doesn't publish such info.  [/quote]

You just ask teachers who speak Cantonese, in Cantonese, about which kids speak a dialect at home and how well, which parents speak which dialects, who's from China, Taiwan, HK etc. who's American-Chinese.   They'll tell you freely.  Teachers won't give this info in Mandarin or English because they don't want non-Chinese to listen in.

The main obstacle to drawing in more bilingual Chinese is the lack of a Cantonese-speaking administrator doing outreach.  A good many immigrant Chinese parents in the District don't speak great English or Mandarin, and are self-conscious about it.  They don't know who to talk to at YY.   They hear that the school isn't for people like them and believe it.

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