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It's just wasn't a lot of fun to be approached by[b] one parent after another [/b]who wanted to draw on our cultural knowledge when we turned up at our kid's school, and often got defensive about the fact that so few other bilingual kids were there.  We found the scene tiring and strange, but surely wouldn't have if we weren't Chinese.  Being around parents who think that they know a good deal about Chinese culture, generally because they spent several weeks in China picking up an adopted baby girl, got old for us.   
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Oh helllllll, no! Those parents must have pretty unrealistic expectations. You can't borrow a culture. You have to live it yourself. It's one thing if you, as in PP, voluntarily offer to share your experiences. But really it's the school's job to maximize culture and language learning. I'm  a transracial adoptee and now multilingual parent at an immersion school. Not at YY, but I get how tiring the token thing can be. My child definitely disappointed a few parents when he spoke English during playdates and not his second (my 3rd and very rusty) language.

As to lotteries, English only speaking parents might want to lookf for immersion programs in DC that do give preference to or hold separate lottery for a non-English language. Not ethnic or racial preference, just target language ability like LAMB or Oyster.[/quote]

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