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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My friend who works at the MA school, very near where I went to college, assures me that none of the admissions rules are set in stone.  Because she does community outreach in Cantonese, Toisanese and Mandarin in W. Mass, and the parent community welcomes native speakers of all dialects to support the school's mission, community resistance is not a factor in recruiting native-speaking kids (there are hardly any in W. MA anyway).  The feel of the school is very different from YY, however the MA charter law is written.

The school is in MA, the state performing best on the NAEP 4th and 8th grade assessments, where the politics of race and class are of course not nearly as combative as in DC.  We have visited to pick up copies of Cantonese academic materials they've developed for young children to help them make the transition to Mandarin, in partnership with a private Cantonese school in Newton MA.  Cantonese-speaking administrators welcome us, and shake their heads in disbelief when we tell them that nobody running YY is a native speaker of any dialect.

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Well, glad to hear that!  Western MA is lovely and a very welcoming place in general and we can't wait to go back.  I also went to one of the five colleges.[/quote]

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