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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So start one! It would be great to see in action and there would be a lot to be learned on all sides. I'm sure if the new school is up to snuff like the 4 already involved then those schools would be keen to have more speakers of Chinese (whatever dialect you chose to have for the school).[/quote]

The school would be a Mandarin immersion school, w/dialect transition support for kids like ours.  Mandarin is rapidly becoming the Chinese lingua franca for dialect speakers around the world.  There are two-way Mandarin immersion elementary schools in cities as far flung as Vancouver, Sydney and Singapore for this reason.  But I'd be really surprised if DCPS would play ball for now.  We'll almost certainly have to wait until Gray and Kaya go.  We'll ask but they'll tell us no money, little interest, we're closing schools, YY is enough.

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Does DC have the requisite population to sustain a PK-6 school in this model.  Or, will parents in MoCo who could not get into their Chinese immersion school use fake DC addresses and leases to attend this proposed chinese school.  I get Oyster as DC has a very large Latino population, so the Latino bodies are there.

In addition, why stop at such preferences for Chinese dialect.  Can we get a school that gives a 50% preference for Amharic, Arabic, French speaking Senagalese children.  [/quote]

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