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[quote=Anonymous]No worries; we will surely stay away unless the DC law on charter schools is amended a third time, this time to allow individual schools to develop unique admissions criteria (and it may, the DC City Council plans to consider the issue next year)  and Yu Ying welcomes us.  The former seems increasingly likely, while the latter is clearly very unlikely.   The problem is that kids learn languages best when they're taught not only be instructors but by peers - Columbia Teachers College in NYC has sponsored several good studies on the subject in the last decade, which can be found easily.  Our Chinese au pair is friendly with au pairs who care for Yu Ying kids from non ABC families, enabling us to meet parents with similar concerns.   The Chinese au pairs like to joke that the Yu Ying kids speak Mandarin very formally for young children because they aren't learning "kid talk" from classmates.   The parents tell us that not having more than a handful of bilingual kids enrolled, and Chinese parents involved in the institution, is a serious problem that is well known but seldom discussed at PTA meetings in a PC environment.  Our kids will learn to speak Chinese well, and without foreign accents, regardless.  It's the Yu Ying kids, and the DC taxpayer, who could be better served.

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