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[quote=Anonymous][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'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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Jesus - you're put off because the presentation wasn't geared to your special circumstances?  Well, aren't you the self-centered little tiger mom.  News flash, honey - the vast majority of families in DC are NOT bilingual chinese, so the presentation was geared towards them.  Now, the administration not being able to answer basic questions aboput the school surely is a problem, but that's hardly specific to your situation, is it?  Oh, wait, I forgot - EVERYTHING is about you.   And as for you'd "rather have a free option in the district" that caters to your specific circumstances - wouldn't we all.

Finally, your condescending comments about "poor minority children" are really revealing.  Those "with exceptional language learning capabilities" are welcome; other might detract from the experience, or worse yet, might deprive your kid of what you believe is your right by ancestry to a slot.  Good grief.  One more time - it's not a magnet school, it's a public charter school.  Its mission isn't to cater to pre-existing bilingual students and those fortunate poor kids "with exceptional language learning capabilities" - it's to educate, as best it can, DC children, more than 25% of whom live in poverty.  Sorry if that interferes with what you believe is your right to tailor a program to suit your needs, but life's tough that way.[/quote]

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