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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]  In my classes,  dialect speakers kept standards high because they picked up Mandarin at two or three times the speed of the rest of us, with better pronunciation.  I had to work my tail off to keep up, a very good thing. YY's adminstrators don't seem to know much about the relationship between Mandarin and other dialects (since they speak none), so they've done nothing to educate parents about the merits of including more dialect-speaking kids.  
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I hear you, PP, had the same experience in grad school Mandarin classes at a W. Coast program loaded with Cantonese speakers.  And I hear you SELA parent, I also wish that speakers of the target languages were at least allowed to test into higher grades.  YY could offer summer Mandarin crash courses to dialect speakers and fill every empty slot.  Maybe the DCI founders will see  value in pushing that policy through DC Charter & the City Council.  It all boils down to leadership.  With YY at the helm of DCI, I'm not optimistic that the school will be all that great.  Of course you need to draw on native-speaking community resources to build a first-rate es immersion program.  If you can't even win over local native speakers, you're like a presidential candidate losing his own state.

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Grad school and college Mandarin.  Learning Mandarin as a grown up...  YY main entry yr is 4 yrs old, preK.  You are talking apples and oranges.[/quote]

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