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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone think about logistics when making such sweeping suggestions? Limited resources and reality of  limited choices make it really unrealistic to think the school should do pull-out dialect support to maybe a dozen kids per dialect spread over 6 grades (I'm just guessing about the representation of the different dialects- I really have no idea). It could POSSIBLY help attract more families in the long run, but in the immediate timeframe it would pull resources from the existing student population.  Sorry, but I can't see the benefit to supporting Cantonese at a Mandarin school in the elementary level. What would the kids need to give up and how would it help them learn English and Mandarin?[/quote]

Not a dozen per dialect, around a dozen fully bilingual dialect speakers total (not just Cantonese speakers). There is no systemic approach to building on dialect skills as a bridge to Mandarin, which doesn't help attract DC bilingual families.   Many strategies, some lost cost, could be explored (e.g.using community volunteers, my MIL, fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese, would be glad to help).  Chinese immersion schools elsewhere build these bridges systematically on less funding per capita than DC charter offers. YY could be talking to their administrators. A mentality needs to change before structures can.  Not sure if YY really wants more bilingual families anyway, but if it does, cost effective changes need to be considered.

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