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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's called being Chinese = exceedingly polite.

We get it, hardly anybody at YY cares that most of the kids speak strange, crappy Mandarin. Parents don't even care that the admins don't speak it. Parents think their kids are fluent if they hire a tutor and don't care how they will perform on international baccalaureate tests. Draw your own conclusions.
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You don't seem to get it, since you keep coming back to make your point over and over. My conclusion is that we are not tiger moms, which is not news. Your obsession with "doing it right" and worrying about high school testing for elementary students does not resonate with many American parents, who have other priorities for their kids.

You seem personally insulted by the Chinese at YY, which also seems odd. I would be thrilled if I was living in another country and met elementary students who were studying a difficult language and would never dream of calling their efforts "strange and crappy." It seems we have different concepts of "exceedingly polite."[/quote]

It sounds like immersion charter leaders nationwide should be joining forces to lobby Congress to amend federal charter law to help their programs. No possible fix, just endless angry back and forth?

I've read that research has shown that dual-immersion works a lot better than one-way immersion in teaching children to speak languages (YY case in point). So why is Congress against the creation of dual-immersion charter schools?

I'm not being snarky. If somebody who knows about the charter movement can explain this is, please tell us.[/quote]

Immersion and language schools are just one of the types of charter schools in DC.  When the charter movement originally started in DC, we were pushing for alternative program and options to the poorly run and horribly managed DCPS.  Honestly, many of us that fought so hard in the 90s for charter programming had no idea the charter school movement in DC would turn into what it has.

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