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[quote=Anonymous]Yu Ying could certainly have "the cultural support" if it reached out to the small local Chinese community (yes, there are some Mandarin-speaking kids living in Chinatown, but more Cantonese speakers) by admitting as many Chinese-speaking children who reside in the District as it could attract.  A leader of the little Chinese cultural center in Chinatown tells me that, by his estimates, no more than several hundred "non-diplomat or international organization Chinese anything" (American Born Chinese, Chinese immigrant, Chinese-European etc.) kids being raised bilingual in DC, yet most whose names go in the Yu Ying lottery are not being selected in the absence of special lottery for Chinese-speakers.  Kids don't just miss out on a measure of language acquisition when the ethnic group whose tongue is being celebrated is largely absent from a school community; they miss out on insight into a culture.  Only one child in my son's class is a Chinese speaker at home.  So, in all likelihood, only one grew up with a family tradition of celebrating the Moon Festival, Spring Festival etc.  Why so many Yu Ying parent association members are adamant that no special allowance be made for Chinese speakers in admission to Yu Ying in the future is beyond me.  The many girls adopted from China, through no fault of their own, generally aren't in a great position to help classmates learn about the culture.  At first, I was impressed with how many "Chinese" kids there were in the school, until I realized that all but a handful were being raised in non-Chinese families.   Call it arrogance, on my part, but I'm sticking to my guns in asserting that there's an uncessarily fake feel to too much of what the school is doing on the taxpayer's dime.  [/quote]

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