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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]LAMB and Yu Ying are the schools that have cachet and accomplishment.[/b]

I dunno, I've been dipping into the "Sp vs. Ch" thread, with over 300 posts, examining issues related to why YY's student body is only around 2% ethnic bilingual, vs. 1/3-1/2 for the other charter immersion schools.  YY is belatedly getting heat because the DC Chinese community has rejected the school from the get go.  The thread is full of appalling comments by YY parents who don't want native speakers in class with their kids and dislike Chinese culture for being racist, snotty etc.  They don't want ethnic Chinese adminstrators either (there aren't any).  I was surprised and disgusted.  Sounds like only a matter of time before the press has fun with the story.

LAMB, with its grandfathered lottery for native speakers and great relations with city Hispanics, sounds like it has earned the cachet.

Perhaps we should be taking YY's "accomplishment" with a grain of salt, if not a bag.  The immersion schools take a lot of middle-class kids whose parents have simply found a path to flee a low-performing IB school, so they're not necessarily the most outward-looking group committed to international studies for teens.  I'm skeptical that DCI will get the majority, or suffer if it doesn't...

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I would like to point out that LAMB does not have any grandfathered lottery and that such a thing does not exist. [b]They were finally forced to remove language questions from their application.[/b] The rest of your information about Yu Ying is so off base and not based in fact or reality that I cannot take you seriously. You sound like the parent of a kid who got expelled from Yu Ying.  [/quote]

Please cite your source on this.[/quote]

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