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[quote=Anonymous]I'm not a YY parent--my kid is at LAMB--but when I read these miserable posts I can't help but wonder why in the heck the parents association and the board don't jointly approach DC Charter and the City Council talking some sense.  We've done that on occasion at this school and got results.  Just say, look, our student population is much less bilingual than any other immersion school in the city so we need a policy tool/mechanism to help us attract native speakers to achieve our goals.  One lottery isn't working well for us so we'd like you to consider two, like LAMB has - if you won't play ball, we aren't worse off.  So we'll ask now, we'll ask next year, we'll ask if five years, we'll ask every year until you see the value in working with us.  We also need extra money for a Cantonese-speaking administrator/community liaison, or we have no hope of drawing in the DC Chinese community.  We don't want bad press for having become a Chinese school the local community rejects, unlike in NYC, San Fran etc.  We've done our best to work with the set-up you gave us, but it isn't going so well.  Charters are a work in progress and we want much better for ours.  So many of our parents are disconnected from the culture of the language we're teaching that our rep is suffering and our tiny group of heritage speakers is growing alienated and shrinking.  Come on civic leaders, we're only asking to thrive.  We can work with you to explain policy changes so that the public understands.  Voters will grasp that 2% bilingual, despite our best efforts to date, isn't what any of us wants.

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