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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]

Oyster is a DCPS school which was given special permission for the lottery. LAMB's practice of two lotteries were grandfathered. Since the change in charter laws, none of the other bilingual schools can have two separate lotteries. YY is not alone. Just like Basis cannot have a lottery based on the highest test scores, immersion schools cannot have lotteries based on a child's ability to speak a chosen language fluently.

Btw. What makes any of you think that simply because a child's parents speak a language, that child would be fluent in the language. I have Chinese friends whose children refused to learn the language.  In my dating days, I dated guys who could not speak an ounce of spa sig, yet their parents spoke the language.

Finally, there are Chinese American parents at YY. Some speak no Chinese, some speak cantonese and no mandarin, and some speak mandarin. All the CHinese instructors are from China, Taiwan, or Hong Kong. I do agree that it would be nice if one of the head administrators, such as Exec director, principal, or vice principal spoke fluent Mandarin. [/quote]

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