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Yu Ying hasn't yet graduated a class of 5th graders.  The one we have didn't come up through the school, they entered at 1st or even 2nd.  There's no way our community would stand for allowing those students to not be proficient in their native language.

To use another metaphor, for staffing, you're fishing in a sea, we're fishing in a backyard water-feature, so I'm surprised you can't understand the difference between the orders of magnitude.  If that is still unclear, you should consider brushing up on your math.

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[b]This is such BS.  A college friend, a kick ass admin at a W. Coast Mandarin immersion school, and a dialect speaker, has responded to YY's advertisements for admins several times.   S/he has family in the MD burbs Chinese community and is eager to relocate.  S/he gets nowhere.  Just an anecdote,right, but where's the evidence that YY does its damdest to find Chinese-speaking admins, let alone an ethnic one?[/b]

As for your community not standing for students not to be proficient in their native language, you have dozens of Chinese-speaking kids with undocumented parents?  Illiterate parents?  Parents who are so poor that a dozen family members crowd into a one-bedroom apartment?  Parents who loiter in Home Depot parking lots hoping for day jobs or work as cleaning ladies?  Do you have a single bilingual FARMs kid?  The ethnic YY parents I know are lawyers, doctors, accountants and consultants who went to Ivy League schools.

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This is probably true.  YY is not interested in dialect speakers.  They are a Mandarin immersion school so unless the admin is proficient in Mandarin, they won't be interested.  Unlike the W. Coast school probably, YY has no Cantonese population to speak of (or if they do, they all speak English) so a Cantonese speaker would not be hired unless they also spoke Mandarin.[/quote]

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