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[quote=Anonymous]Okay, let me get this straight.  It is "bad" for kids to learn formal Chinese?  It is "bad" for kids to work towards having understanding in multiple languages?

About 25% of the Asian/pacific islander population of the US is Chinese, so let's extrapolate this to the DC population.  Of the 114,000 kids in DC, 3,467 are API.  If  25% Chinese = 877 Chinese kids in the city (give or take distribution curves). The PP is getting her panties in a knot and making blanket statements about the ABCs who are going to "all band together".  Unfortunately for her position, there will be more kids in Yu Ying in three years than the total DC population of ABCs.  
I can understand the desire to tear down something that may change the flavor of your (or your children's) immediate cultural identity.   It is a sacred space, but in our world it is a fluid one.  Please understand that is most unlikely that anything of quality will come from creating a tiny, isolated cultural enclave for your kids.  
Will the Yu Ying kids have a weird accent? Yes.  The tones are twangy (but they tend to be less flat than the ABCs I teach in high school).  Is Yu Ying a threat to Chinese culture and a reason to rally your collective wagons and peak out from the curtains?  That seems pretty nihilistic to me.[/quote]

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