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[quote=Anonymous]The playground issue is endemic.  I spend lots of time with bilingual kids, Korean and English.  It is nearly impossible to get young children to speak English when they are in Korea and Korean when they are in the U.S. and these children already speak both languages. They will naturally prefer to speak the language of the prevailing culture.  So unless you want them to learn a language like Spanish where there are large numbers of speakers everywhere or want to congregate in an ethnic enclave like Chinatown, it really isn't fair to judge a school like Yu Ying by what the kids choose to speak in the playground.

Show me any child under 7 who are native speakers in Chinese and I will guarantee you within a year of living in the U.S. they will want to and prefer speaking English.  That's what Yu Ying is fighting and I will also guarantee that these ABC kids with native born/speaking Chinese parents will also be speaking English and prefer to speak English.

Unless you want to recruit young children from China or kids who live in Chinatown (does DC Chinese population even live there and speak Mandarin?) and keep them in a bubble here, stop being so arrogant.  Learning Chinese is hard.  If you want the cultural support and such, let your child learn Spanish.[/quote]

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