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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]YY parent here. Chinese for White and Black people? Great!!!! That's the way we like it.. [/quote]

You mean almost exclusively for white/black people?  Only for them?  I'm a LAMB parent not understanding why many YY parents don't grasp the the critical importance of having a decent-sized group of ethnic families involved, even if the language teaching is great.  2% bilingual yet fantastic, pleez.

I don't meet LAMB parents who talk/think like you guys. Sounds hopelessly parochial.  For my tax dollar, the city shouldn't be in the business of granting charters to groups w/out strong cultural ties to a language.  People setting up a 1-way immersion program when a better quality 2-way was possible.  At this rate, sounds like YY's growing popularity/fame could prove a paper tiger in the upper grades.

Anybody else unhappy with the idea of DCI being so far up, by Walter Reed?  That's more than 10 miles for the Hill families, and there are many at most of the  immersion schools.

You got lucky. If LAMB started it's charter today it would not have the luxury of two lotteries. LAMB two-charter exception was granthfathered in under the old charter laws. So it is mighty fine of you to sit on your high horse and say what you would and should do when not faced with the same circumstances and rules. In addition, I would say that the combined Hispanic community with it's multiple ethnicities quadruple the small DC Chinese community.  There are more hispanics to go around, even if the only thing they may have in common is a shared language with varying dialects.

Cantonese and Mandarin are not different dialects, but different languages used in the same country. Sort of like Oroma and Amharic, or Farsi and Arabic, or French Canadian and English. Same countries with citizens speaking two different languages.  People keep saying Chinese dialects, but it is not Chinese dialects, but languages spoke in China. 
  
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