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[quote=Anonymous]"Dialect support" to learn Mandarin could be something as simple as a teacher who speaks yours offering focused help w/pronunciation.  True that dialect speakers need to start learning Mandarin young to avoid a pronounced accent (like the heavy "th" of the Cantonese speakers), and that strong accents aren't appreciated in northern China.  But dialect speakers can't avoid a Mandarin accent altogether.  I'm a Lafayette parent who speaks Shanghai'ese to my child.  I got in to YY but it didn't seem worth the trek when the school's agnostic on the subject of bilingual kids attending.  It is what it is.  We like our heritage Mandarin class at a private oufit in Silver Spring.  A teacher speaks our dialect and the Mandarin standard in the advanced classes for elementary is higher than at YY.   I'm not going to call our situation representative, but know other ABCs with similar stories at Brent, Janney etc.   For my tax dollars, I'd like YY to at least start tracking how many bilingual families go in the lottery, and why some don't attend even if they could. [/quote]

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