This Taiwanese-American mom wants white people to stop putting their kids in Chinese immersion programs
The system is truly a lottery, you fill out a form, list the schools you want in order and then spend the next two months gnawing at your fingernails.
Hey White Parents Who Enroll Their Kids In Chinese School: STOP
It only takes three generations to lose a language, they say.
My mother, who came to the U.S. in her late twenties, tried to get my siblings and me to speak Chinese. For a while she attempted it at home, until our refusal to answer in the language wore her down. Then we did the Saturday school thing, where we’d get up at the crack of dawn to drive an hour each way so we could congregate with the other second-generation non-speakers to be shamed by the teachers about our lack of fluency. It just wouldn’t stick; we were too American — a culture that neither values nor teaches its children to be bilingual.
Read more here.
Mandarin Immersion Parents Council 
This looks like it will wind people up. The solution when everyone wants a slice of the pie, is to bake more pie. FWIW, research shows that language learning is not a lost cause after early childhood either. In fact, middle childhood appears to be “better.” Humans have been bilingual since before we had formal education, somehow we did it :).
Eeeeeek!