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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All that terrific diversity in preK can seem much less wonderful by 3rd or 4th grades, when so many of the students providing it are struggling.  You definitely aren't going to attract a lot more bilingual kids, who wouldn't struggle, without Chinese administrators or a parallel lottery, no matter what sort of outreach you might do.  Truly, YY might have worked better as a magnet, leaving it in a position to screen applicants for suitability.  Some children, regardless of family background, have exceptional language aquisition apptitude; others don't.  If the school were in a position to test, identify and bring in droves of language gifted kids, and bilingual kids, its prospects would be brighter.  Romance language learners don't face the same hurdles, because, as has been pointed out, Chinese is a whole lot harder.  My ABC spouse often has his usage in dialect corrected by his immigrant parents, and he spoke nothing but Chinese until age 5.  DCPCSB and the city council need a reality check on the "luck as sole entrance criterion" approach, and fast.   [/quote]

Whatever...  go start a MAGNET Chinese school to your liking.  [/quote]

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