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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]YY tried outreach in those areas, but they have been snubbed so they gave up. [/quote]

[b][u]It's what happens when no school or parent leader speaks the principle dialect of the North American Chinese immigrant community.[/u][/b] By the same token local community has given up on YY, feeling snubbed. I'm guessing that the issue will be revisited thoughtfully eventually, after several years of DCI IB Diploma Chinese examination scores have become common knowledge, and a college admissions track record has been established. Things could change if a new principal spoke good English, Mandarin and Cantonese. There would be no shortage of qualified applicants if a serious search was done, particularly from Canada. As you may know, the excellent Maury principal of six years is Canadian/Quebecois, and the former head of the Fairfax Co. French immersion ES. [/quote]

NP: If your bolded statement is true, that right there is a huge problem.  This is a public charter school in DC with a Head of School and a Board that, by all accounts, has done an INCREDIBLE job with all the most basic and important parts of developing a school: getting space, developing a curriculum, figuring out the dual language model, figuring out the IB model as applied to their focus on Mandarin, hiring native speaking staff... and so much more.  The school is considered a model for dual language Mandarin instruction in a public setting, and yet SOLELY because the Principal is not Chinese, there are community partners that want nothing to do with the school.  There were absolutely Mandarin and Cantonese-speaking parents at the time Yu Ying were first doing their outreach to DC's Chinese community, so don't say there were no parents who could speak to community members.

It's actually a miracle YY has done as well as it has, given the blatant prejudices so many have about the Head of School who has opened doors for the school and run the school in a way that has kept it's standards high, kept the instruction going and apparently of good quality (even if it doesn't meet the "MoCo is better at all of this" poster's standards here), and yet there were community members who didn't want to collaborate with the school just because the Head of School (who was one among many reaching out) didn't speak the language(s) (even though others did).

The community members you speak of gave up? Yeah, I bet they did, if the only way for YY to appease them was to fire the Head of School and bring on someone they approved of, they probably did get tired of waiting.  Still, YY continues to survive and thrive.  I hope my kids literally win the lottery when they're old enough (which will be next year for the oldest) to apply.  We've been focused on Mandarin as our 1st choice of language since pregnant with the oldest.  Would really love to be part of this school community that has accomplished so much in the face of so much resistance and animosity.[/quote]

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