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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Asian can mean japanese, korean, indian, etc.  Asia is a large continent.  Also, just b/c someone is of Chinese or mixed Chinese descent does not mean the person speaks or knows any Mandarin.

Yu Ying like all charters cannot screen/test-in for language or anything else.

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Yes, thanks for the explanation of US census categories. That's why I wrote "in this context". Doubt there are too many Indians seeking YY enrollment, but who knows.

Is there a YY parent who can guesstimate the % of YY kids who speak chinese at home with at least one native speaker?

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There are Indians, Koreans, Japanese, Malay, etc.  Asians value Mandarin, good schools in general, and there are not any immersion schools around here that are Japanese,  Korean, Hindi, etc.

My kid is one of the Asian/White kids there and the Asian is not Chinese...  and I am a native speaker and born in another country.

I would estimate lots of mixed Chinese kids at YY but most of their parents are NOT native speakers and are English dominant.  Maybe there are 1 or 2 kids per grade at most with a native Mandarin speaker parents but from the ones I know, these kids are not any better in Mandarin than their classmates whose parents don't know any Mandarin.[/quote]

We're in PreK at YY, and without trying hard I can think of 7 children of at least one native Chinese-speaking parent (in the grade, not just our class).  It's also not true that their Mandarin is no better than their classmates.  Many of them (the ones in our class) walked in understanding Mandarin way way better obviously than all the students who'd never heard it.  And 2 of them could speak it before YY but didn't as much, and now can carry on every conversation in either Mandarin or English just as well as the other language.  So at least in PreK, it's much more than 1 or 2 of native speaking parents.[/quote]

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