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[quote=Anonymous]"Why would less assimilated families be interested in a Chinese immersion school? Recent immigrants want their kids to learn English. It does not matter if the school is dual-immersion with targeted "dialect transition" or a school like YY. The native speakers who move to the U.S. want their kids to learn English and go to Harvard like other Asian immigrant parents. Immersion schools by their very design attracts native English speakers who want their children to learn another language usually this means higher SES families who care about such things thus the high number of higher SES families at YY."

It does matter if a school is dual-immersion, really matters.  Chinese immigrants do tend to want their children to learn Mandarin, to position them to take advantage of the opportunities a rising China will bring their generation of Americans.  My niece, who's at Harvard, is a Cantonese speaker and graduate of PS 163, in Flushing NY, a "balanced" Mandarin dual-immersion program.  Our family immigrated in the 70s, but many of her PS classmates were recently arrived immigrants.  The explosion of private Mandarin schools in Chinatowns and Chinese enclaves around the country (where low and medium-SES families are more like to live than high-SES) is testament to immigrant drive to learn the dialect.  My sister complains that most of the services at her NYC Chinatown church are no longer conducted in Cantonese, they're done in Mandarin, partly to attract young people.

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