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[quote=Anonymous]+100. Lord Hear our Prayer. Cantonese speaker, offered YY spot early on, didn't bite, stayed IB. Guessed that we wouldn't be able to speak freely, that they wouldn't get us, that we'd feel out of place. Lost sleep over concept of extended family strenuously objecting to our heading to school w/admins who don't speak Chinese. Though, seriously, if the principal had broken out in beautiful Mandarin to YeYe and MaMa (grandpa & grandma) I'm confident I could have won them over on the AA issue, employing shaming tactics. Whatever the case. Enjoyed big Chinese New Year party at MoCo heritage school with DC families as per usual.

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DC at YY and we're happy although of course things can always be improved.  I do wish that there were more native speakers but am a bit taken aback (well, not very as this has come up on other threads before) by the sense of entitlement that some of the Asian-Americans/dialect speaking posters.  There is a Chinese outreach committee that is part of the Parent Teacher Association but honestly having read this thread (and all of the previous hugely long one), I think it would be almost impossible to satisfy these dialect speakers.  They want to be courted, given preference, have an administrator who speaks that dialect... I think it would be impossible to satisfy all their demands.  And it was truly disturbing to read some of the outright blatant racist remarks.  The school will always be too diverse, too English-speaking, not enough Chinese-speaking admins for them... As I said on a previous thread, charters are started by interested individuals so the dialect speaking parents can band together to consider starting another one - YY is oversubscribed and there is definitely room for another.[/quote]

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