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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]

College friend has blue chip MA in East Asian studies.  Perfect Mandarin, learned from a young age and years of experience in China.  Also speaks a dialect and has lovely personality, could do outreach locally.  No chance of being hired at in-bred YY.

[b]Why won't YY parents admit that you don't want dialect speaking little kids who can pick up Mandarin much faster than yours, and model the culture for the others?[/b]   Why continue to claim this when it's clear that hardly anybody wants more bilingual families involved?  Ech, I quit.  Amen for MV  (and I speak both Spanish and Mandarin).

Perhaps because we have no issue whatsoever with dialect-speaking little kids, that's why.   :roll:

You're going to find this hard to believe, seeing as how you seem to expect the world to do everything exactly the way you want it, but YY parents have no control over school policy.  And YY administrators have no control over charter law.

Since you're so accomplished, perhaps you can get right on that, and have the law changed?  Thanks, love.

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