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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).  
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Who would advocate for a child to be pulled out of a classroom with a teacher (or two) to receive instruction from someone's mother in law? And why aren't these kids that you speak of getting language support from home? My children are. They have a Chinese tutor and I tutor them in English. 
I agree that something might be able to be done to lure in more Cantonese applicants, but we are still talking about a couple hundred kids CITY-WIDE who will still have to go through the lottery process like everyone else. If less than 1% of the city's children are native speakers of Chinese it would be lucky to net more than 20 additional students with whatever outreach is used.[/quote]

ITA.  Although the MIL maybe a perfectly nice lady :). All the posts about how the Mandarin immersion schools are in NY and San Fran are ridiculous in comparison to DC b/c DC is not NYC or San Francisco with their large Chinese populations, with many Cantonese speakers, etc.  These schools obviously serves their populations and communities well.  It is certainly arguable YY does the same given what it has, the district of columbia with <1% Chinese.  
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