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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The ABC community here views Yu Ying as cultural appropriation. The AA principal is the last straw; they just seethe. That's the dynamic you need to understand to make sense of the non-stop tsunami of seemingly pointless venom spewed in this thread and all the others about Yu Ying.[/quote]

Nah, they have better things to do than seethe, like raising their bilingual kids to thrive in their connection to the rising China while making good use of JKLM, Brent, privates, MoCo programs etc. Give me a break, the AA principal isn't the issue - it's the HOS that doesn't speak the language of immersion for ten years now that's a joke.  I bet they'd applaud her if she were fluent in Mandarin, have lived in Taiwan or China, and hired a Cantonese speaking admin to connect to the small DC immigrant community.

We're in Spanish immersion but I don't see pointless venom on immersion threads, I see a lot of fair points in a school system that's a whole lot better at pretending to promote excellence than actually doing it. Can't wait to see those IB Diploma scores for the many YY families with the million dollar houses on Cap Hill, in Brookland etc. Yea, some of them could attain Singapore IB Diploma heights if they bothered to put nose to the grindstone.

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Well, you won't know until 2020 when the very first DCI class graduates, so I hope you're not holding your breath.[/quote]

No problem waiting. As a parent who earned the IB Diploma, taught in an IB World School, and bailed on YY, I can say with confidence that DCI scores are going to hit high SES families hard for many years. BASIS isn't pretending in the same way, they're meticulously building their AP success.  Their facilities are weak, but their planning prowess and work ethic merits a little respect. Washington Latin, too. Kids can't go on to score in the 30s and 40s on IB exams on the strength of DCI feeder and DCI academics unless perhaps parents supplement like mad for a lot of dough.[/quote]

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