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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Less assimilated families do seem to avoid YY.  Anybody disagree?  Can't see this changing without a change in administration.  [/quote]

Don't disagree.  I'm Chinese, at YY, and speak a dialect crappily.  YY, friendly and supportive school though it is, acts like low & medium-SES DC Chinese don't exist.  The school caters to high-SES Asians and whites, and AA families all over the map.

Chinese immersion schools elsewhere are different.   I have family in Honolulu involved in a dual-immersion program (which provides targetted "dialect transition" support) and they don't think much of our kid's Mandarin, in an upper grade. We're getting a chinese au pair to try to catch up.
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Why would less assimilated families be interested in a Chinese immersion school?  Recent immigrants want their kids to learn English.  It does not matter if the school is dual-immersion with targeted "dialect transition" or a school like YY.  The native speakers who move to the U.S. want their kids to learn English and go to Harvard like other Asian immigrant parents.  Immersion schools by their very design attracts native English speakers who want their children to learn another language usually this means higher SES families who care about such things thus the high number of higher SES families at YY.[/quote]

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