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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]

Unlilkely.  According to our good friends who left YY, almost all the Chinese families who sign on are highly assimilated, highly educated, high-SES families, unlike my ILs and other ordinary immigrants, the sorts likely to make the effort to raise fully bilingual children.  My wife is doing it mainly because my IL's English remains weak, decades into their US lives.  It's an open secret that ordinary Chinese immigrants tend to have fairly negative views of AAs, and try to teach their children to think similarly (but often fail). Maybe you would indeed love dual immersion, but it would mean being around many ordinary immigrants, with all that entails.  An AA friend with children in a strong dual-immersion program in the Bay area, where more than half the kids speak a dialect at home, tells me that she's had to learn to roll with the punches where the immigrant parents are concerned.  They make all sorts of statements that shocked her initially.  She's come around to the view that they're not as racist as they are insular.  They commonly socialize only within their ethnic communities, and reject American civic-mindedness in a big way.

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