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[quote=Anonymous]I'm no chinese wanting preference, but at open houses for half a dozen immersion charters this winter, I noticed that YY's was the only one where those in charge seemed eager to duck questions about natie speakers. Presenters and guides got defensive when parents asked how many bilingual children are in the school, and wouldn't answer. Same reaction when a mom asked which dialects the bilingual children and chinese teachers speak (she got, the law doesn't permit us to collect this data, which sounded paranoid). At Lamb, Stokes, MV etc. admins and parent volunteers answered similar questions by cheerfully offering ballpark estimates, and a little info about the communities involved (most of our Hispanic kids hail from Adams Morgan...we do outreach at these community centers). Whatever the history behind the defensiveness, for somebody new to the scene, it was odd. [/quote]
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