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[quote=Anonymous]OP, if you aren't set on living in DC, have you considered the MoCo ES Mandarin immersion programs at College Gardens and Potomac?  In MoCo, common sense and language immersion admissions policies enjoy a closer relationship than in DC.  The two programs do their best to balance native speakers and non-native speakers around 40/60, and provide substantial dialect transition support, with pullout groups for particular speakers.  They allow kids who speak Chinese decently to test into upper grades when spots open.  And they provide strong support to low-income non-Chinese kids, keeping numbers small enough to afford summer immersion camps for them, so no need for a non-immersion second track like YY's.

These schools would view your family as an asset - no name calling by parents fighting for spots so as to avoid awful IB schools.  Overall, the kids speak somewhat better Mandarin than at YY; having many bilngual kids and parents involved pays off.  Some complain that native speakers dominate these programs, but somebody's always complaining about somethin'.  Visit at any rate, might buck you up.

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