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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ Because the Asian kids in DC basically have the same background/socioeconomic level as the White kids in DC.  Hard to find a FARM White kid in DC at any school:  Are there FARM Asian kids in DC?  I wouldn't be surprised if really low to nonexistent given the # of Chinese in DC.[/quote]

Yes, they go to Thomson. They live with their grandparents in the Wah Luck house in Chinatown while their parents work multiple jobs. YY focuses strictly on "embassy" Chinese and pretends these children don't exist. The parents of these children find the academics (both English and Mandarin) at Yu Ying to be weak, not to mention the attitude of the administration.[/quote]
I think you are mistaken to think that YY focuses on any Chinese at all.  YY does not aspire to becoming a destination school for the Chinese-origin DC residents, a home away from home, so to speak.  It aspires to catch DC's growing ranks of middle-class parents who want decent schooling for their kids.  Currently bilingualism is a fashionable trend in the concept of decent schooling. [b]That this language is Mandarin is irrelevant. It may as well be Portuguese.[/b]  The underlying frustration you see in YY-focused threads is that Chinese-origin families come to this school with an expectation of finding somewhat of a "home", a special place for the Chinese, and the school was never designed to be that. That's the only reason you see these threads.[/quote]

Speak for yourself, outsider.  My family is interested in Mandarin.  Not Portuguese, Mandarin.[/quote]

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