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[quote=Anonymous]+1.  WOTP guy.  There are low-SES immigrant Chinese families enrolled at my kids' MoCo weekend heritage language school, which teaches Mandarin & cultural classes (Chinese chess, Wushu/Kung Fu).  Most of the families involved live in Eastern areas of the county, where there aren't Mandarin immersion schools (although there's an IB MS in Silver Spring which teaches Mandarin), or are from DC.  Hard scrabble DC Chinatown families with young children are involved - the school doesn't charge them much.  I've talked to a number about why they aren't at YY and, for the most part, it's not the immersion that's turned them off, it's the lack of a Chinese administrator and a significant number of bilingual families.

We'd go for a good DCPS dual-immersion school if one existed.  Maybe we should be talking to DCPS, although I'm having hard time imagining the Chancellor being interested at a time of budget stringency.  Maybe we'll have a new opening once Gray and Kaya go, particularly if YY's waiting lists lengthen.

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