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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] It won't be able to "establish" much about the actual experience of Chinese-American parents who choose to stay at the school, since those voices are routinely ignored around here.  [/quote]

What gets established at YY anyway?  Where are the survey results documenting the experiences of bilingual Chinese parents, Mandarin-speaking non-Chinese parents, non-bilingual Chinese-American parents, and others, separately and together?  And who's surveying bilingual parents who stay away, asking why?

This sort of info is routinely collected at dual-immersion schools.  Go to their web sites and view data that would be unthinkable for a DC charter to gather, let alone publish.  Posters go round and round without even being in a position to know many parents and kids speak this and that - Wu, Cantonese and Taishanese, Fujian and Hokkien, Teochew and Hakka.   Bilingual issues remain shrouded in mystery because all the children are supposed share some sort of blank slate linguistic status when they come in, and it's not supposed to matter that cultural influences generally need to be imported.

Who could argue that it would be bad for DC if a strong competitor school to YY were to offer a very different immersion experience?

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