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Reply to "Who do I write to to advocate that Yu Ying join the common lottery?"
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[quote=Anonymous]It is greener in MoCo. The principals speak excellent Chinese, and the teachers, who are paid and trained well, tend to stick around for years. Most teachers are ABCs with strong ties to the local ethnic community, which is very involved in the programs. Standards are considerably higher--for math, English and, yes, Mandarin--and there isn't a non-immersion track. Roughly one-quarter of the kids mainly speak Chinese at home (far more in 5th grade than K, because bilingual children test in to replace drop-outs). Best of all, parents aren't driven to these programs to escape low-performing neighborhood elementary schools, so no there's almost no admissions rate race. You don't meet many MoCo immersion parents who don't know basics about the US Chinese immigrant experience, and China itself, like you do at YY. [/quote]
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