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[quote=Anonymous]This subject has been discussed, and the school basically advised parents that to change the lottery system would take changing the law--something that the school didn't have prioritized in its first years given the other minor things like, oh, finding a building or trying to build a 'Chinese program.  
I am another parent who thinks the lottery can and should change--but I agree with the other posters who state that Yu Ying is doing it cautiously as it will be a minefield--first charter school to have two lotteries based on language which will be dicey because of DC's racial politics.  I also appreciate the advice of the ABC families who have commented that Yu Ying is not for them because it is not Chinese enough.  Of course the balance the school has to strike is working with the kids its got (and their parents) while striving to improve. That said, I would be happy in Yu Ying with more Chinese peers, but in other countries that start studying language early, that always doesn't happen either.  My personal goal for my child at Yu Ying is to study as much as possible through the school and then spend time in China etc. as a high school or college student to actual get better fluency.[/quote]

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