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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry, being a former volunteer does not make you a stakeholder.[/quote]

Not, it doesn't. I was asked to help circulate petitions among civil society groups in Chinatown to get YY's charter approved. I had my doubts, but helped. I regret the decision - a Chinese "immersion" school without close ties to an ethnic community doesn't feel right ten years on. The Chinatown community wouldn't have supported the initiative if we'd been told that the YY board planned to hire non Chinese-speaking admins. We believed that YY was serious about building ties with the local dialect-speaking immigrant community. Maybe under the next head. In the meantime, we head to MoCo for Higher Level IBD Chinese, 6s and 7s, hard work for the kids but within their grasp with a critical mass of native speakers in the classes.

Good luck to the rest of you at YY and DCI.  
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No dog in this fight but this smells racist. Again. Seriously i don't see the point of Chinese at all if racism is going to be used as an excuse against you no matter what.

Plus I've been to China..... No desire to live in such a poisoned place. [/quote]

Everything smells "racist" in DC when jealousy rears its ugly head (in this case, ethnic children speaking good Chinese others can't!!).

I've made this point before on a YY thread and I'll make it again.  IF a group of charter founders decided to seek a charter for a Greek immersion school, sent advocates running to my Orthodox church/Greek cultural center in NW asking for help in securing the charter, [b]then set it up without a Greek-speaking or ethnic admin (or more than a few Greek speaking kids), I'd be pissed, too. Really pissed.[/b]  [/quote]

Wow the bitter native Mandarin speaking YY critical cabal is getting slow - it took all the way to page 4 before they brought up the non-"ethnic" admin!  Usually that's in the 1st critical post, but maybe the YY trolls are catching on that that makes it even more obvious what their real issue with the school is (the non-Chinese admin and the lack of special path of admission for native speakers, especially Cantonese speakers).

This "issue" is an oldie but a goodie.  But we all know if there wasn't something good there that a lot of people want, there wouldn't be so many bitter folks out there who supposedly pulled their kids and moved on, but still lurk around DCUM for years just waiting to pounce on any YY thread and go on and on about how badly all the kids' Mandarin is and will always be.[/quote]

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