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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Also, Yu Ying's current set-up tends to non plus us for subtle reasons unlikely to occur to non-Chinese parents.  For example, go to an information night and hear from a non-Chinese administrator how the school teaches its families how to celebrate Chinese holidays, the assumption being that those those in the audience wouldn't know how.  You think to yourself, what if these parents were being told that they'd be taught how to celebrate Thanksgiving, the 4th of July and Christmas?  [/quote]

What an idiotic comment.  If I lived in China, and my kid was in an English immersion program, I wouldn't find it all odd that the school explained how US holidays are celebrated.  The assumption that many of the families wouldn't know would be perfectly logical, despite the fact that some, including me, would know.  Why would a Chinese family in Beijing know how the US celebrates the 4th of July, or Labor Day, or Thanksgiving?
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If you're raising your kid bilingual, you tend to resent a brutal lottery in which a non-Chinese speaking child has the same shot as yours.  [/quote]

Translation - the lottery is unfair because it's hard to get in the school.  Kids whose parents are fortunate enough to be able to teach them two languages at an early age (before 4 yo!) should be given preferential treatment.

Further translation:  The PP is a horse's ass, and doesn't care who knows it.  Self-interest camouflaged as altruism.  [/quote]

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