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[quote=Anonymous] [/quote]  Lamb guy--I'll state respectfully that every single part of your paragraph is factually incorrect.  The administration does have two people who speak Mandarin.  It sounds like that is not enough because the principal is black and one of the Mandarin speakers is bi-racial.  The school is also a plurality of black students.  The parent association has spent money on outreach and has a whole committee dedicated to the effort.  No one drives out bilinguals by making them feel rotten--my kid got picked on because her pasta smelled funny.  I understand the point the poster was making--when you aren't part of the dominant [American] culture of a school there are incidents that make you feel like an outsider, but we are talking about children here.  Are you really stating that you think that American YY children are ganging up on bilingual children to make them feel rotten?  [/quote]

You're confusing me, WOP guy, with LAMB guy and bullied guy.  To my knowledge, nobody on the outreach committee speaks a dialect -  hopeless.  Look it's not ganging up, it's a ridiculous situation whereby ethnic, bilingual Chinese are a tiny sliver of the school's population and nobody much knows, let alone minds.  The limited outreach is done on YY's terms, no sense of meeting the Chinese community halfway (yet the shock that YY was "summarily refuffed" 5 or 6 years ago), or even finding the Chinese where they are.  YY still thinks "Chinatown" where hardly any of us congregate, and many of the merchants are in fact Vietnamese.

I'm not going to go there with the principal with no connection to China - the situation is so far gone it's absurd.  It's much more than not being part of the dominant American culture; it's being in a domain where nobody but politically weak teachers, and a handful of other parents, gets where you're coming from but almost everybody assumes they do.

American parents love to think that the school is a lot more welcoming to Chinese than it is. They see a good many Asian kids, and decide that Chinese are numerous and happy, when hardly any of the kids are are living Chinese culture outside school.  We are talking about children here and I grew weary of mine coming home saying, "Daddy I want to go to Murch and Rockville with my real friends."

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