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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It seems odd to me that YY is so prominently featured in this article since the school's demographics have been pretty consistent for years; i.e. it's not been affected by the gentrification that's the whole premise of the article. [/quote]

They're trying to build bridges between [b]people who want their child to learn Mandarin,[/b] and people who don't actually care. [/quote]

No sympathy.  If they want their kids to learn to speak anything approaching halfway decent Chinese during childhood, they needed to get a clue and live near a community of Mandarin speakers.

Hint: not in DC unless they're native speakers themselves.  Total joke.[/quote]

Few DC public school parents can grasp the argument. What they see is a little Mandarin at the expense of.....a lot of English being sooooooo much better than enrolling at the crappy local DCPS, or moving to the burbs for schools.

The result is that hardly anybody questions this absurd Chinese "immersion" model.  They'd much fret about low SES black disenfranchisement w/in the absurd conceit of immersion without classmates who speak the language at home. None too bright.[/quote]

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