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[quote=Anonymous]Good to hear from another non-Chinese parent who see the value in having two lotteries.  Perhaps Yu Ying could learn from the experience of public/charter Chinese immersion schools not just in the DC burbs but around the country-in Utah, Minnesota, California, Massachusetts and New York--in this regard.  Stop by their web sites and get a feel for how hard they work to recruit Chinese-speaking kids and Chinese-speaking parent volunteers to advance their schools' goals.  I'm not convinced that the DCPCSB or the City Council would object to amending the law in the near future to accomodate language immersion schools if IF Yu Ying's administration and PA made a strong case for doing so.  But I can't see that happening because the administrators, and the great majority of the parents, seem comfortable with the concept of a Chinese immersion school in which only a tiny fraction of the students speak Chinese at home.   Bringing in a lot of Chinese-speaking kids would be far beyond Yu Ying's comfort zone.  Those tiger parents are not what we're used to, at least not en mass, or we wouldn't be calling them names here.  At what point do we move beyond racial politics and into the realm of keeping up with our nimble public school competition at home and abroad?  [/quote]

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