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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You could have simply told your wife that the charter board does not allow dual lotteries so it's irrelevant what anyone thinks, pro or con.

You sound like you have issue with 1/2 the kids being AA at YY.  DC is 1/2 AA with a ~1% Chinese population.  I think it makes more sense to cater the open houses to the majority of kids and parents who live here rather than put resources into a very small population with little chance of getting in (like everyone else).  [/quote]

My wife is a lawyer who read the charter law before we visited. She just couldn't believe that nobody spoke Chinese at an info night at a Chinese school. OK, so put the resources into attracting non-Chinese parents, but don't claim that you long for dual immersion in the same breath.  How many resources would need to go into an info night in Cantonese?  Parent volunteers on the outreach committee could hold it at a local Chinese restaurant willing to host for free.  We have checked the YY web site many times hoping for such an event, so my IL's could attend, but haven't seen one advertised.

I'm wasting my time. Dual immersion is not what you really want. You don't want the bad (bad, bad...) Chinese attitudes that would come with it. Maybe you need Chinese ILs to get it :-)

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I think it's us who are wasting our time. I am a YY parent and would love dual immersion. This is not a "claim" this is a fact. However, I do not make the decisions about where the school puts its resources and if they don't put them into attracting Chinese families how exactly does that invalidate what I feel? But you're right about one thing--I don't think anyone wants a bunch of racist bastards at the school. Happily I think the Chinese families at YY parents nights ("real" or "unreal") might take issue with that educated guess of yours.[/quote]

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