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[quote=Anonymous]13:47's idea of a DCPS Chinese immersion school is an excellent one.  There seem to be many local parents on both sides of the aisle, those staunchly in favor of the one-way immersion model and those who strongly prefer dual-immersion.  So much better if there was a choice.

These days, Chinese immigrant families often want their kids to learn Mandarin and to read/write Chinese characters.  In New York City's Chinatown, dual-immersion public school programs are very popular with low and medium-income ethnic parents, as are weekend classes at private language schools in Manhattan and Queens.  This wasn't true when I was growing up there in the 80s.

Chinese immigrant and ABC parents all over the country, and the socioeconomic spectrum, enroll their kids in Mandarin classes because they want them to do well in AP Chinese classes later, and possibly to make money doing business or professional work related to China as adults.

More locally, plenty of DC Chinese from low and medium-SES families scrape together the tuition to get their kids to MoCo weekend Mandarin classes.   Mandarin instruction for kids is not a high-SES phenomenon with 1st and 2nd generation Chinese families, like attending YY.

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