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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree wholeheartedly. Not Chinese but I'm concerned about PC notions of love, harmony, equality etc. trumping actual learning a lot in public schools these days, at our economic peril. China's a rising superpower in large part because their national, provincial and city governments, while not democratically elected, are fundamentally practical.

Our city ed leaders can't handle making tough ed policy decisions. 2-way immersion works best but the city doesn't bother with it for any language but Spanish. The charter immersion programs could have been DCPS or charter-DCPS hybrids with dual lotteries, like Oyster, but DC public generally can't be bothered to do things right. [b]Bilingual American Born Chinese are seen as a threat on these boards by the jealous, pure and simple[/b].[/quote]

I've seen this statement made before in other threads and I do not understand this.  Who here expressed anything that could be construed as jealously of American Born Chinese? And how could they be considered a threat? This makes no sense especially in the context of this thread. [/quote]

ABCs who make factual statements about YY kids speaking Mandarin poorly are routinely called racist on these boards. It's been happening for years. If they were AA, the threads would get shut down. [b]Few YY parents want bilingual Chinese and ABC families in the school injecting competition into a language learning set-up that's all too cozy (and, as a result, largely ineffectual). These boards ooze jealousy of ABC language prowess, among other things.[/b] I'm not Chinese, but little could be more obvious.[/quote]

It's so obvious, yet you fail to point to any actual posts in support of these sweeping statements.  I've been following YY threads for years as well, and there seem to be a subset of people like you who insist that few YY parents want bilingual Chinese students.  What is this based on??  The conclusion gets repeated over and over but where is this actually coming from? There has been nothing in the 15 pages of this thread, for instance, to indicate that YY parents feel this way.  Same question for your comment about people being jealous of ABCs' language prowess "among other things."  What is that even based on?? And why, of all things, would that be something for others to be jealous of? [/quote]

I actually think this poster is funny. Yes we are all jealous of you. That's it. [/quote]

I don't even know why I'm reading this thread I have no kid at YY, never will, am not Chinese, but somehow here I am so I will say: this is SUCH a weird statement to say everyone's oozing jealousy about ABCs. What??? So strange. !! I don't even know why this thread exists but it's interesting on a sociological level...[/quote]

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