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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]More misinformation. 
The PA DID target marketing to those places listed, and did so in Mandarin (not Cantonese). However, that is the job of the school and not the parents.
District charter law DOES prevent preferential admissions criteria. Furthermore, it needs to be clearly stated in the charter formation documents that admission will be based on a lottery if more than enough applicants apply. The charter board will not approve anything else and it would be grounds to have a charter pulled if a school were to attempt something like that.
The students are assessed and placed in Mandarin ability groups regularly. The SOPA, CIRCLE and running records place the children by ability to their correct level. I'm curious what leads you to believe that your child is not placed appropriately? Do you mean to imply that you would wish for your child to be in a more native-speaker grouping? Or are you troubled that there are non-native speakers in the highest groups?[/quote]

I get to the MoCo places most weekends.  If YY targets marketing to them, where is it?  Maybe they did once, but since nobody Chinese was making presentations in Cantonese, shaking hands or attending community functions, the impact would have been darn low.

Wasn't talking about preferential admissions critera- a no brainer.  Was talking about evaluations of foundational skills for Mandarin acquisition.  What you hope as a Cantonese speaker is that your child ends up working with one of the few teachers from the South, but there is no system in place for building on dialect skills (vs. at the San Fran school, where such skills are identified and harnessed).  It's a big topic, but the students aren't really assessed and placed in ability groups regularly.  Some are bumped to the second tier and others are not.

Troubled that there are non-native speakers in certain groups is not a question but a pejorative, forget it.

I only raise these issues because they underscore the fact that YY tends to treats bilingual Chinese as non-entities.  Any wonder that around 2% of of the kids are bilingual, vs. 1/3-1/2 at most of the Spanish schools?  At this rate it might be 1% - we're losing patience.

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