Yu Yang--is the student body predominately African American, does Yu Yang have a non-Chinese track..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe this thread. It's probably started by a parent trying to get their child in for next year and playing headgames with the competition.

FYI, we love the school and sooooo happy our child goes there.

PK parent.

To be clear, I started this thread and I am not interested in sending my child to a school where my child could receive the message that he/she is deficit. Yes, there are many schools that track, but that does not make it ok. In fact that policy was band decades ago. And, it is certainly not ok for a charter whose mission is to immerse their students in chinese language and culture to make exceptions when it suits their needs in the name of helping struggling students.

I was hoping the rumor was not true.

That being said, as a tax payer I have every right to ask questions. I think all taxpayers and concerned citizens have the right to know
how students, all students, are being educated. I thank the parents and community members who have contributed to this thread. If you look past the obnoxious comments and the defensiveness, there are some real insights. Hopefully, the parents can help the school rethink this policy because these students are not being served academically or otherwise.

[Anonymous]

Folks --- Ignore the troll. Please.

[Anonymous]

So you are looking at schools for your DC? Which ones are you considering and what grade? Obviously you have very high standards so would love to know which school in DC has met your exacting standards. Do share

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Folks --- Ignore the troll. Please.

Agreed. Enough with the Yo Yang room already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe this thread. It's probably started by a parent trying to get their child in for next year and playing headgames with the competition.

FYI, we love the school and sooooo happy our child goes there.

PK parent.

To be clear, I started this thread and I am not interested in sending my child to a school where my child could receive the message that he/she is deficit. Yes, there are many schools that track, but that does not make it ok. In fact that policy was band decades ago. And, it is certainly not ok for a charter whose mission is to immerse their students in chinese language and culture to make exceptions when it suits their needs in the name of helping struggling students.

I was hoping the rumor was not true.

That being said, as a tax payer I have every right to ask questions. I think all taxpayers and concerned citizens have the right to know
how students, all students, are being educated. I thank the parents and community members who have contributed to this thread. If you look past the obnoxious comments and the defensiveness, there are some real insights. Hopefully, the parents can help the school rethink this policy because these students are not being served academically or otherwise.

Your kid is deficit and you should be band.

[Anonymous]

LOL!

[Anonymous]

Obviously below grade level in English and not tracked...

[Anonymous]

Another AA parent made the same point recently in a thread on Wilson Academies, vs. general school. Because most of the AA students are in the lower performing academies, she preferred to send her child to a private school. Rather than a place where AA = lower track, lower academic expectations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

To be clear, I started this thread and I am not interested in sending my child to a school where my child could receive the message that he/she is deficit. Yes, there are many schools that track, but that does not make it ok. In fact that policy was band decades ago. And, it is certainly not ok for a charter whose mission is to immerse their students in chinese language and culture to make exceptions when it suits their needs in the name of helping struggling students.

I was hoping the rumor was not true.

That being said, as a tax payer I have every right to ask questions. I think all taxpayers and concerned citizens have the right to know
how students, all students, are being educated. I thank the parents and community members who have contributed to this thread. If you look past the obnoxious comments and the defensiveness, there are some real insights. Hopefully, the parents can help the school rethink this policy because these students are not being served academically or otherwise.

Your kid is deficit and you should be band.

Just a sock puppeting troll in need of remedial English. Definitely, not tracked...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where do you get experienced Chinese speaking teachers skilled in differentiation?

Well, that's precisely the point. You put the money into high quality professional development for the teachers. It sounds like they already have dedicated teachers who know Chinese and know how to teach Chinese. Now, you train them in the areas where they need help...differentiation. It CAN be done. It works at many schools in this area. You have to believe that all the children can learn and deserve an equal opportunity to learn in a high quality setting.

Not true at all. Most of the Chinese teachers are freshly out of graduate schools or recent graduates and certainly don't have any or much experience teaching. As a matter of fact, for most this is their first job, in a foreign country and have to deal with parents who are so different from Chinese parents in China. Culturally they are not prepared. These teachers need training and I dont't think YY is giving them the kind of training they need to succeed. In addition, the Chinese language coordinator at YY doesn't really understand the job and apparently not advocating for these young teachers either. She is NOT making life easy for them. She has managed to turn her friend -- the longest serving Chinese teacher at YY who got YY to hire her straight from China -- into foe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, trying experienced English teachers has not been done consistently.

The 3rd grade teacher last year had zero experience in elementary instruction. The 4th grade teacher this year has zero experience running her own class (one year as an assistant). The teacher for the DCC was a Teach for America last year.

The research is clear, first and second year teachers are not effective. Yu Ying hires ineffective teachers for many of it's classes and then people wonder why the students aren't achieving?

The DCCAS scores for last year speak volumes about the quality of the English instruction at this school.

Totally agree!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Folks --- Ignore the troll. Please.

I wish this particular YY admin or one of its minions could expand the vocabulary a little. You give yourself away by using "troll" and some of the same old names over and over.

[Anonymous]

???
"Troll" is a ubiquitous message board term and no names have been mentioned.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:
Your kid is deficit and you should be band.

Is it really necessary to bad-mouth the poster's child?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another AA parent made the same point recently in a thread on Wilson Academies, vs. general school. Because most of the AA students are in the lower performing academies, she preferred to send her child to a private school. Rather than a place where AA = lower track, lower academic expectations.

As many posters have pointed out this is not the case however at Yu Ying. The DCC class is 100% AA but the regular immersion classes are also majority AA and have a greater number of AA kids in them (like 2:1 ratio) than the DCC class. So DCC class has 12 kids out of a total of 80 kids in the 3rd and 4th grades- Numerically speaking the remaining 68 kids still are majority AA.