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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You rock, PP. It's a no brainer - Congress needs to wake up and amend the charter law to accommodate dual language lotteries to help low-income bilingual families, and DC needs to change tweak LEA arrangements for charters to the same end.  Otherwise, DC will be stuck with these predominantly high SES skim milk immersion charters indefinitely.

The same would be true for French and Chinese, since both languages are spoken at home by cohorts of low-income DC residents.  There are Haitian and West African immigrant communities in DC speaking French in the home.  American-Born Chinese, the type who seek out YY and feel comfortable there, rarely teach their children to speak their family dialects in this generation.   It's primarily low-income DC Chinese, mainly in the restaurant community, who still speak Chinese at home.  We know two low-SES Chinese immigrant families who lasted less than a school year at YY from our volunteer work with the Chinese Benevolent Association in Chinatown.  The parents felt out of place in the school community, where admins and other parents had no clue about their situations/dialects.[/quote]

Totally agree PP. [/quote]

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