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[quote=Anonymous][b]YY has tried that and I'm guessing is working diligently on strategies to continue trying (they just don't post the progress of such efforts here on DCUM). Certainly YY school leaders don't want to run a Chinese immersion school without Chinese speakers. [/b]

But the truth is that the leaders HAVE nearly succeeded in running a school without ethnic Chinese speakers, so forgive us for getting the wrong impression.  You must have a gaggle of Mandarin-speaking parents who learned Chinese as adults.

Good intentions are peachy.  Why not start with an on-line survey of bilingual Chinese families, both in and outside the school.  Ask them what they know about YY, why they do or don't put kids' names in the lottery, why they enroll, why they leave.  Ask them what they're looking for.  If you asked me, I'd say that if at least 1/4 of the YY kids aren't bilingual at home, we'd much rather stay at our great IB school, where we might be tokens, but at least we're not considered snotty, racist, insular etc. for keeping our culture and dialect alive.  If YY was running open-enrollment, pay as you play afterschool, weekend, or summer Mandarin lessons and activities for kids, we'd go.

Almost any Chinese-speaking Chinese around could give you a list of venues where you could advertise your survey - most of us head to the same dim sum places, supermarkets and heritage language schools in Rockville and Silver Spring on weekends.  We consider Chinatown for tourists, and the small group of Chinese Christians who attend church and the little community center there.

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