Yu Ying Lottery on Apr 7, anyone attend?

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the heads up. I am sure it's going to be pretty challenging in the beginning! We are signing up for summer school now and will be attending 2nd grade at Yu Ying. I would like to speak with other moms who have kids in the same grade to learn more insights per se please email me at [e-mail]. I would really like to get in touch. I read there is also a Yu Ying google group but I could not find how to join. Thank you. K.

[Anonymous]

You would get more responses if you emailed the school and asked for permission to register on the Yu Ying portal group. This group is for Yu Ying families only. Once you are registered, post your question there. Welcome!

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know how much the after care program at Yu Ying costs? Thanks

[Anonymous]

$145 / month before care 7:30 - 8:30 am

$365 / month after care 3:30 - 6 pm Mon - Thurs, 1 pm - 6 pm Fri

Options exist for fewer days, Friday only, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:16:38 -- I hope so, I hope the test scores are good. But the DC CAS assumes total instruction time on English (reading, comprehension, vocabulary, etc.) and math (a LOT of story problems and English terms ["degree" "percentage" "angle" "perpendicular"]), not characters and phonetics in a language unrelated to English. YOU might be surprised at the DC CAS scores for your school. It's terribly depressing to have your children (and their cohort) evaluated only on 50% of what they are learning in school as if it were 100% of what they are learning. It makes the bilingual aspect of their education so undervalued.

If your kid is getting a good education, who cares what the CAS scores say?

Because if your charter does not make AYP, it's threatened with closure, for one thing. For another, it drops a "tier" in status-- the best (and monolingual schools) all make AYP year after year.

And you'll see, you'll want your child to at least be proficient in English reading and math, in comparison with kids in monolingual programs. Even if you "don't care" on the whole about standardized tests, if your particular child doesn't score at least at the proficient level and the grade/school as a whole, on the DC CAS, you will find yourself caring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP--How could the Mandarin speakers in Potomac, Arlington, Rockville, etc. "seek out Yu Ying's program". It is only for DC residents--it would seem to me incredibly dumb to move to DC just so you could play the very poor odds of Yu Ying's lottery.

I agree with you about the academics though--they are unproven. I have a child at Yu Ying and contrary to a previous poster, the school has never made it clear to me what they will do with students who can't keep up in Chinese--start failing them? Counsel them out? Yu Ying has a broad group of middle and upper class parents at the school, so I am guessing that test scores will be good for those groups. It also serves a significant population of low income children and I am unclear how Yu Ying will do in making sure those children are successful.

I don't think there is large population of low income students at Yu Ying. I hope you are not assuming this because of the number of AA children that attend the school. There is large number of Professional AA parents at Yu Ying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:16:38 -- I hope so, I hope the test scores are good. But the DC CAS assumes total instruction time on English (reading, comprehension, vocabulary, etc.) and math (a LOT of story problems and English terms ["degree" "percentage" "angle" "perpendicular"]), not characters and phonetics in a language unrelated to English. YOU might be surprised at the DC CAS scores for your school. It's terribly depressing to have your children (and their cohort) evaluated only on 50% of what they are learning in school as if it were 100% of what they are learning. It makes the bilingual aspect of their education so undervalued.

If your kid is getting a good education, who cares what the CAS scores say?

Because if your charter does not make AYP, it's threatened with closure, for one thing. For another, it drops a "tier" in status-- the best (and monolingual schools) all make AYP year after year.

And you'll see, you'll want your child to at least be proficient in English reading and math, in comparison with kids in monolingual programs. Even if you "don't care" on the whole about standardized tests, if your particular child doesn't score at least at the proficient level and the grade/school as a whole, on the DC CAS, you will find yourself caring.

Not true at all. Hardly any DC public schools - DCPS or charter made AYP this year. The vast majority failed, for whatever reason. In fact, considering how many failed and how supposedly high-quality (JKLM? Cap City & Haynes?) the schools were, it might actually honestly speak to the test this year. We'll see what next year looks like. In any case, this has nothing to do with Yu Ying, which didn't have students old enough to take the test.

[Anonymous]

The "whatever reason" is that the targets went up from 60.5% of kids testing proficient in reading and 55.2% testing proficient in math. The new targets for 2010 to make AYP are 73.7% for Reading and 70.1% for Math. If the targets had been left at the same level as 2008 and 2009, most schools that usually do well would have made AYP in both Math and Reading.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:16:38 -- I hope so, I hope the test scores are good. But the DC CAS assumes total instruction time on English (reading, comprehension, vocabulary, etc.) and math (a LOT of story problems and English terms ["degree" "percentage" "angle" "perpendicular"]), not characters and phonetics in a language unrelated to English. YOU might be surprised at the DC CAS scores for your school. It's terribly depressing to have your children (and their cohort) evaluated only on 50% of what they are learning in school as if it were 100% of what they are learning. It makes the bilingual aspect of their education so undervalued.

If your kid is getting a good education, who cares what the CAS scores say?

Because if your charter does not make AYP, it's threatened with closure, for one thing. For another, it drops a "tier" in status-- the best (and monolingual schools) all make AYP year after year.

And you'll see, you'll want your child to at least be proficient in English reading and math, in comparison with kids in monolingual programs. Even if you "don't care" on the whole about standardized tests, if your particular child doesn't score at least at the proficient level and the grade/school as a whole, on the DC CAS, you will find yourself caring.

Not true at all. Hardly any DC public schools - DCPS or charter made AYP this year. The vast majority failed, for whatever reason. In fact, considering how many failed and how supposedly high-quality (JKLM? Cap City & Haynes?) the schools were, it might actually honestly speak to the test this year. We'll see what next year looks like. In any case, this has nothing to do with Yu Ying, which didn't have students old enough to take the test.

Let's see what that looks like as time goes by. It's hardly a secret that bilinguals outperform monolinguals even in their native language once they've mastered a certain degree of fluency in the target language.