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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are a family of one Chinese speaker at home. My kid is still young but we are determined to send her to YY, provided that we won the lottery. [b]We would like her to feel proud of her background and minimize the identity issue growing up.[/b] This is the main reason we decided to stay in DC and try for YY, and this is more important than the math score to me.

I see a few one parent Chinese family here in this post, and if we are all interested helping the kids learn Chinese better, anybody interested in a wechat supporting group? Not too many Chinese parents in DC I'd always want to meet some.[/quote]

If you want to meet DC Chinese parents who aren't super assimilated (speak their dialect at home with their families), head to Rockville on weekends for heritage language classes. That's where your kid can feel proud of her background.

The identity issues are unlikely to be mitigated by sending your kid to a school where only a handful of families out of hundreds mainly speak Chinese at home. It's not uncommon for DC Chinese to find the experience of being a token bilingual ethnic family at YY alienating. We found that the head speaks Chinese worse than our PreK kid, and that most of the Chinese kids in the school were adopted by non-Chinese speaking whites. 
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