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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of course this YY parent would like more two-way immersion...don't know of any YY parent who would be against this. [/quote]

This YY parent knows boatloads of others who would be against two-way if it hurt their chances of being admitted, which of course it would unless the school and DCPC were doing something radically different.  They might not say so, but they wouldn't support dual immersion.  They just want a decent school (better than most IB on Capitol Hill, in Petworth, or wherever) where their kid learns more than a little of a foreign language.  They get that and they're satisfied.  You are an unusually sophisticated and Chinese-minded YY parent to want more!

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I don't think you are a YY parent.  If you are you do not attend the PA meetings or participate in the school very much.  My child has been at the school for four years.  DC was not in the founding class.  For the first three years, two-way immersion came up ad nauseum in almost every PA meeting.  The issue was raised with the principal and the director, and we were told that "we cannot comment on what they are doing at LAMB, but we are prohibited from making admissions based on language skills".

I can honestly say that I have only attended one meeting this year and the main topic was the China trip and elections.  Therefore, I do not know if it is still an issue that is consistently raised by the parents.  However, for the families that have been around the longest, the desire remains for a two-way immersion and empty seats replaced by children who already speak the language.  I have no idea what the parents of that big Pre-K class thinks or desire, for they never really connected with the older parents.  So maybe they are the ones for which you speak.  They would be in the minority if they did not want the two-way immersion.

YY also has a committee that does outreach to the DC Chinese community.  The committee is primarily Chinese-Americans, who I am sure speak more than one dialect among them.  [/quote]

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