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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]

No, it doesn't have the requisite population.  Posters keep mentioning NYC - Flushing, Chinatown; San Fran; Vancouver; Sydney, etc.  DC has a population just over 600,000.  The population of Queens, NY - only one of the boroughs, not NYC - is over 2 million.  The Chinese population in DC is less than 1%, under 6,000 people most of whom are not 4/5 yr olds - entry yr for YY, and most of them are not bilingual Mandarin speakers.

I think let's give Cantonese speakers preference pp will do better trying to improve Thompson...  but it looks like they don't want to do anything at all except bitch about YY on DCUM.[/quote]

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