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[quote=Anonymous]Language immersion charter admins in DC tend to embrace a take-it-or-leave-it approach to dealing w/parents. Don't like the fact that communication to families isn't normally translated into a target languages at certain feeders and DCI? Too bad, go find another school if you don't like the way we do business. Our waiting list is long!!

The big picture problem is that this approach to dealing with ethnic bilingual communities hurts immersion study. Not a small problem, because dual immersion, or anything like it, is a more effective approach to immersion study than one-way immersion.

Right, YY families are happy with the school, although many kids who've attended for years can hardly speak the target language. The problem isn't so much that there aren't many native Mandarin-speaking preschoolers in DC, it's that the community of ethnic bilingual families (speaking various dialects) in the Metro area isn't on board to help. We're asked really basic questions about Chinese language and culture by longtime YY and DCI parents in our neighborhood. We teach them that Mandarin is just one of half a dozen major dialects.[/quote]

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