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Regarding what your IL think and feel about AA, how is that relevant to YY?[/quote]

What kind of question is that?  YY's student body is nearly half AA, and a tiny minority bilingual Chinese.  At the open house, my wife asked a question in Mandarin (she was thinking in Chinese and it came out that way), an exercise that didn't cheer her up.  Nobody else in the room where the slideshow was viewed seemed able to speak any dialect.  Not the parent volunteers, or the other prospective parents, or any administrator.  There weren't any Chinese teachers present.  When we got back to my IL's house, in MD, they refused to believe that we'd been at a Chinese school.  They were convinced that we'd got the wrong building or something.  Somebody's surely about to accuse us of wanting preferential treatment for having had a bad reaction.

Has anybody at YY considered an open house/parents information house in Mandarin and Cantonese?  I would have had a chance with the family at such an event.   [/quote]

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