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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So what we have concluded is that Yu Ying is incapable of providing it's charter mission to low SES students. That is also a problem. Low SES families need not apply, for your child will not, I repeat, will not, receive a dual language education. Just be happy you get a slot in the lottery. [/quote]

To me the school did a courageous thing. Instead of bowing to issues of race, class, or parent pressure, they used data to make decisions and let the chips fall where they would. As a parent of a child in the upper grade, I too, was worried about the decision to offer a different language model to some students. The school put in a lot of work (a huge document) responding to all questions (whether civil or not), held a special PA meeting, met with each identified family and student individually, and kept it color-blind. What more do people want? If the school had chosen to ignore the continued pattern of failure in both English and Chinese for these students, would they have been accused of not caring whether this group succeeded or not? Would we be yelling at them for passing kids along without doing something more before middle school? We know retention is not the answer. You can't have it both ways. These kids were all receiving special intervention before being identified for this model and are being included with their peers for all but reading and math (and of course, they get Chinese in an instructional vs. immersion method). 
C'mon people: get real about the hard choices we all have to make.[/quote]

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