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[quote=Anonymous]The comment about how the info night isn't Chinese parent friendly wasn't idiotic, it was indicative - I had a similarly off putting experience.  The comment about the holidays was just an example - no part of the presentation seemed geared toward bilingual families.  I like to keep coments constructive, so maybe matters will improve if the PA knows this is an issue.  I raised my hand and asked the presenters--one was the school principal--which dialects kids at the school speak, which dialects teachers speak, and how many kids speak Chinese at home.  Normal questions a Chinese parent might ask.  The answer I got in every case was something to the effect of  "the school doesn't have this info and if it did, we couldn't give it out in a public charter school context."   They seemed annoyed by my line of inquiry and I felt out of place.  I left puzzled, without knowing how many bilingual kids are in the school.  Friends tell me that what you have to do is go up at the end of a school day, corner a Chinese teacher and ask in dialect.   With luck, they'll steer you to another teacher who speaks your dialect, and maybe even a parent.   I send my kid to weekend "heritage Mandarin" classes at Kuang Chi Chinese School in Rockville, where dialect speakers are catered to.  I'd rather have a free option in the District, but it doesn't sound like YY's lottery situation is ever going to change.  No, bilingual parents wouldn't want to weed out all the poor minority children - those with exceptional language learning capabilities and special help from the school (e.g. CDs and DVDs to use at home) surely do fine.  Kuang Chi takes some and they seem to thrive in classes in which most of the other kids are Chinese speakers.
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