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[quote=Anonymous]^^ I'm not one of those parents who think speaking Chinese is a ticket to the C-suite (heck, I speak it, and it's only been so helpful career-wise), but I want my kid to learn it, because China is a big important country, because I think learning Mandarin will enrich her life in ways that are hard to predict, and because I think it's a challenging thing to do which will grow and stretch her mind.

The opportunity to learn Chinese is an incredible one. But a city like DC can likely only support one Mandarin-immersion charter school. So it needs to be placed somewhere relatively central, and it needs to pull kids from all over the city. That's the trade off you make when you have a very specialized program, vs. a neighborhood school that serves local kids.

It might be nice to have all of our neighbors go to the same school, but in a place like DC, with so much choice and so many private options, there's no guarantee that all the kids even in a good school catchment area will attend the neighborhood school. Or that all of the kids at that school will be from the neighborhood.

In practice, many of our neighbors DO attend Yu Ying-- I can count at least a dozen kids within a few blocks of here.

And I like it that my kid is in school with kids from all over the city-- it offers a level of diversity that we might not otherwise get.

So add it all up, and while you might sacrifice some things, you gain lots of other important things from the system we've got too. [/quote]

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