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[quote=Anonymous]WOP guy.  Parents love to claim "oh, but there are a heritage speakers in my kid's class!" How do you know when nobody's counting them, or evaluating their language skills?  We bought into this view ourselves, until we realized that most of those being passed off as heritage speakers really weren't.   They might have learned a little Cantonese or Mandarin or whatever at home, but not much.  Truly, those who work hard to teach their kids Chinese at home are rarely interested in YY.   It's all too easy to argue, "I feel very welcome, so, if you don't, you must be the problem" if you're not a bilingual Chinese parent who feels token, despite your best efforts not to.

It was disruptive for us all to pull out; I mulled it over for two years beforehand.  And then I wondered by why I'd delayed - the pressure was off and we were free to be ourselves again.  When Chinese associates approach me to ask about YY, I try to say positive things, but when I get to the part about the administrators being non-Chinese, and the 2-3% bilingual, by my count, they say not for us.  No way.

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