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Point taken.  "lets recruit more Mandarin speakers" happy.  YY is a Mandarin school.  While I admire your tenacity about giving dialect speakers preference, it simply is not going to happen.[/quote]

A friend teaching at the Mandarin immmersion charter in Amherst MA tells me that her principal scours W. Mass communities for any dialect speaker she can find willing to consider putting their kid's name in the hat.  "Giving preference" is even older than "bad IB schools".  Try enabling the school to achieve significantly higher standards in Chinese.  Not going to happen is right, you've got me there, not enough logic, East Asia area knowledge, or ambition at any level to support the initative in this particular city.

Incidentally, at any given time, we know pretty much all the Chinese au pairs hosted by YY families.  Most are Cantonese-speakers and, unbeknownst to their white host parents, their little charges break out in Cantonese all the time.  They gather at our place at the invitation of our latest au pair and tell us how they went from whatever dialect to full immersion Mandarin in kindergarten without difficulty.  The transition is made by tens of millions of little kids in China annually, but can't happen at YY.

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