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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Agree. This thread has been loaded with resentment that ethnic Chinese speakers dare report that they aren't impressed with YY's Mandarin instruction. Interestingly, the complaints on the Spanish immersion threads are usually about English instruction, not Spanish. The YY parents and supporters do sound afraid to ask for better instruction. They sound like they know standards are lacking and want higher standards, but make claims to the contrary in their resentment. I'm having trouble imagining them being worse off if they took the criticism with a grain of salt, learned from it, and responded by pushing for higher standards.

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