Mandarin Immersion Parents Council

http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/17-10/st_best

In this month’s issue of Wired magazine, number six on the list of  “The 10 Best Things We’ll Say to Our Grandkids” is

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(“English used to be the dominant language. Crazy, huh?”)

And a couple of years ago in a Wired feature article on the costs of raising a world-dominating child, the only school suggested was the Chinese American International School, so as to have little Johnny be fluent in Mandarin. Of course that was before there were dozens of Mandarin immersion public schools around the nation.

Not that we’re out after world-dominating children, merely happily bilingual ones. But we’re clearly more and more part of the Zeitgeist, or at least one of them.