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[quote=Anonymous]WOTP guy again.  There are practical reasons YY and DCI might want to consider hiring dialect-speaking administrators, not just to focus on outreach, as was suggested on the last thread.

I have a sibling in LA who's been happier with her public Chinese immersion program (which goes through 8th) than we were partly because immigrant administrators there go the extra mile to ensure that the school builds on children's dialect skills as a bridge to Mandarin.  There are pullout groups for kids speaking all seven of the major dialects.  The view at that school is not that dialect speakers are "weirdly entitled," or seeking preferential treatment, as pps  put it, but rather advancing the Mandarin learning goals of the school.

By contrast, YY essentially treats all the kids the same as language learners, not an academically sound approach when a few, like mine, arrive speaking decent Chinese at age 4-7, if not Mandarin.   YY could develop ties to the MoCo immersion and private language schools where academic and cultural bridges between dialects/regions and Mandarin/northern China are being built, particularly Rockville Cantonese School (where maybe 1/4 of the 250 students are DC kids), to promote cross-fertilization.

All this could help attract more bilingual families to YY's lottery.

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