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Haha. I applied to Yu Ying, EL Haynes, Lamb, DC Bilingual, Stokes, and Tyler Spanish Immersion for my DC.  DC got off YYs wait list, and no other.  so he is a student at YY.  It was our last choice, but only option to avoid an atrocious IB school. Nope, there was no love for acquiring the Mandarin language, but DC speaks Mandarin beautifully. Oh, and it's not free daycare. I pay between $450-$510  a month for aftercare.   The families who so desperately want Hebrew for their child does not get special points in their lottery quest. [/quote]

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Right on.  YY would have been our first choice if it had been the first choice of most of the parents there, more for pull factors than push factors. We speak Chinese at home (as Chinese immigants), but like most other bilingual DC Chinese with tiny tots, we don't see the point of leaving our decent IB school for a charter mostly attracting random families with no connection to Chinese or China.  So we aren't going to apply.  YY parents rarely seem to want to admit that they arrive via the above process, but lots do.  We talk to YY parents in our Capitol Hill neighborhood who don't seem to know that Mandarin is just one dialect of Chinese, and probably couldn't find any of China's major cities on a map.  What a silly admissions process.

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