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[quote=Anonymous]The obvious future competitor to YY would be a dual-immersion DCPS Chinese school, like Oyster.  I hope that the dialect speakers will lobby via this route eventually.

A DCPS Chinese school could start out with a Chinese-speaking principal (of whatever background), at least one ethnic administrator, at least 1/4, and maybe even as many as 1/2, bilingual kids coming in through a separate lottery and benefitting from targetted dialect transition support, and lots of DC Chinese community input.

It could also have better paid and trained teachers, probably resulting in stronger Mandarin and English instruction for the kids.  I don't think it's impossible that such a school will emerge within 5-10 years, or that its graduates will end up at DCI.

"Diversity" in DC Charter is code for high-SES whites sending their kids to school with lots of AA kids, or maybe Latino kids.  It's not what logic dictates works best for a Chinese immersion school.  But since DC Charter has chosen the one-way immersion model, where it's not necessary to involve bilingual families, YY will stay on its current development trajectory, and parents will be fine with that, or leave.

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