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[quote=Anonymous]The ethnic Chinese community in DC, if you want to call it that, isn't largely Taiwanese, and the entire pre 1968 community hasn't decamped to the burbs. Like other DC "gentrifiers," most of us moved to DC in our 20s and stayed. We're scattered around the city, and hail from all over the place, Singapore, Hong Kong, NYC, San Fran, LA, Toronto etc. Our ranks are growing year on year. We don't connect easily with YY families on the language learning front, because most of those we meet are either Chinese who are so assimilated that they really don't consider themselves immigrants or ABCs, or parents without much of a connection to Chinese (language, culture, populations).

As for the PP who opines that YY is the country's top public Chinese immersion school. What's the criteria? Size? Length of waiting list?  There are half a dozen strong public programs in the Bay Area, several teaching Cantonese to all the littlest kids as a sharp marketing strategy. These programs do what they can to draw in dialect speakers to raise standards for Mandarin learning. They don't just do it by offering an admissions preference; they do it by offering structure and programming native speakers are looking for.

We get it: DCPC, DC and Congress don't see value in offering native speakers preference in charters admissions in any language. But something's gotta give eventually because, all things being equal, dual immersion constitutes best educational practices in language instruction for poor kids (and others), and by a long shot. Maybe DCPS and DCPC will merge in a generation, with the standards boosting preference coming in as a by-product.

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