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[quote=Anonymous]YY parent of 5 years who agrees. The real problem is that the YY community doesn't want to confront or address the problem that supplementing takes major resources and a realcommitment that most of the families cannot or will not provide. Why should parents sacrifice to supplement when the school isn't asking them to do this? Most families don't have a strong connection to the language or culture, so supplementing doesn't come naturally. The school could raise money to help families supplement and raise expectations for Chinese proficiency but doesn't. We're in the group that scrimps and saves to supplement extensively year round. We're a minority, a small minority actually. When Mandarin speakers outside the school community point out that a good number of YY students struggle to speak everyday Chinese in the upper grades, they aren't making the case just to be disagreeable. I don't see that.[/quote]
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