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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] If you ask nicely YY would probably share you their presentation.  Afterall, they shared it with MV and MV was approved.  [/quote]

I don't doubt that YY would help if another immersion charter were in the works.  What some of the dialect speakers worry would happen if a 2nd school went charter is that, without a lottery for bilingual kids, you'd mainly attract families who aren't  as interested in Mandarin and Chinese culture as in escaping IB schools.  I favor the Oyster model, where a Latino community is drawn in as a community.

If you threw open the door to dialect speakers entering via a separate lottery, and the new school seemed as strong as Oyster, I'd wager that you get 75-100 bilingual kids, maybe 5 times the number at YY.  But you couldn't find enough for a 50-50 native speaker non-native balance, so any dialect-speaking applicant would be welcome. And you'd get a host of ethnic parents happy to teach Tai Chi, Chinese chess, cooking, brush painting, folk/Lion dance and music, Chinese knotting etc.  With considerable community input, a school can have a lot of fun with the culture.

I'd like to see such a school emerge as one of the first DCPS/Charter hybrids Kaya is talking about. That way, maybe it could have a DCI feed. The more strong immersion schools with the feed, the better for the MS.  These programs are a cut above most PS elementary programs.

Gray doesn't look like he'll get through 2014, if he tries.  We'll wait for a new Chancellor to ask the hard questions.[/quote]
I think that all sounds very sensible.  I posted above that folks should start their own school, and I didn't mean it to be snarky--just that at this point posters are describing something that would require a rewrite of YY's charter.  And I agree that this is probably done best with heavy DCPS input--among other things, they have the buildings and the $ for a startup.  [/quote]

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