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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree wholeheartedly. Not Chinese but I'm concerned about PC notions of love, harmony, equality etc. trumping actual learning a lot in public schools these days, at our economic peril. China's a rising superpower in large part because their national, provincial and city governments, while not democratically elected, are fundamentally practical.

Our city ed leaders can't handle making tough ed policy decisions. 2-way immersion works best but the city doesn't bother with it for any language but Spanish. The charter immersion programs could have been DCPS or charter-DCPS hybrids with dual lotteries, like Oyster, but DC public generally can't be bothered to do things right. [b]Bilingual American Born Chinese are seen as a threat on these boards by the jealous, pure and simple[/b].[/quote]

I've seen this statement made before in other threads and I do not understand this.  Who here expressed anything that could be construed as jealously of American Born Chinese? And how could they be considered a threat? This makes no sense especially in the context of this thread. [/quote]

It's not jealousy.  It's resentment that the Chinese-heritage people have the temerity to judge YY and find it lacking.  All the responses by YY parents or supporters I read are about "how dare you say my DS/DD speaks worse Chinese than she/he should have by now." It's like they are afraid to ask for higher standards. [/quote]

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