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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yu ying is now a mostly white and asian school. Was majority african american, but no longer the case with lower grades. Yu Ying "tracks" underachieving students into non-immersion track to "catch up" for the standardized tests.

All kids in the "catch-up" track are African American. They have essentially figured out a way to track the underperforming black kids away from the white and Asian middle class kids.

There is something terribly wrong with this. They found a way to track the black kids away from the white and Asian kids. If immersion is pRt of the charter, how can Yu Ying not provide immersion to these children. I smell a rat, but it's hidden behind the walls.

You smell a rat but the rat is 15:21.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yu ying is now a mostly white and asian school. Was majority african american, but no longer the case with lower grades. Yu Ying "tracks" underachieving students into non-immersion track to "catch up" for the standardized tests.

All kids in the "catch-up" track are African American. They have essentially figured out a way to track the underperforming black kids away from the white and Asian middle class kids.

I think you need to keep this all in perspective. Initially, the school was majority African American, therefore, most of the kids in the upper grades would be African American. Out of the group of underachieving kids, some kids pulled out and went to other schools ) we do not know if some of them was Asian and White. On top of that, the class contains no more than 20 kids, so most of the kids are performing on grade level. There are many African American kids performing just as well as Asian and White kids, some better!

We need to get ALL the facts before starting a witch hunt!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yu ying is now a mostly white and asian school. Was majority african american, but no longer the case with lower grades. Yu Ying "tracks" underachieving students into non-immersion track to "catch up" for the standardized tests.

All kids in the "catch-up" track are African American. They have essentially figured out a way to track the underperforming black kids away from the white and Asian middle class kids.

I think you need to keep this all in perspective. Initially, the school was majority African American, therefore, most of the kids in the upper grades would be African American. Out of the group of underachieving kids, some kids pulled out and went to other schools ) we do not know if some of them was Asian and White. On top of that, the class contains no more than 20 kids, so most of the kids are performing on grade level. There are many African American kids performing just as well as Asian and White kids, some better!

We need to get ALL the facts before starting a witch hunt!

Oops..."some of them WERE ..."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP must be a troll--surely no one who's interested in the school has not figured out its name. But if she/he is not, plese search the archives because there are multiple threads that address these questions.

I am the one who initially asked the question and I have no idea what a troll is...so your assumption is wrong. I did go back and conduct a search on Yu Yang, but since there are so many random discussions about the school I could not locate this topic. I do not have a child there; but I was concerned, as any person should be, that African Americans are being tracked in what seems to be classes of low expectation. If the school can not provide services for all children based on the mission that that they articulated and argued for, than what is the purpose? This information was quite shocking.

And for those advocating that it is a multicultural space with lots of diversity, if the school's classes are tracked based on race under the guise of "academics and struggling students" than it is not authentically multicultural environment. It is an example of a really bad message being sent to students about who has access and privilege and who doesn't.

[Anonymous]

The tracking is achievement-based and based on English proficiency. No one wanted to have kids who weren't doing well in English while spending time in immersion Chinese. That doesn't make sense, does it?

And for goodness sake, if you can't figure out the name of the school how can you expect people to take your questions seriously?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yu ying is now a mostly white and asian school. Was majority african american, but no longer the case with lower grades. Yu Ying "tracks" underachieving students into non-immersion track to "catch up" for the standardized tests.

All kids in the "catch-up" track are African American. They have essentially figured out a way to track the underperforming black kids away from the white and Asian middle class kids.

I am a parent in one of the top two grades. This is so insulting on many levels--including to other African American parents who have very high achieving kids in the top two grades. There are still more African American children that are still in the immersion model than their are white and Asian students in the top two classes. My child's regular immersion class is majority AA. The person who posted what I quoted above obviously doesn't have any first hand knowledge of the actual make up of the top two classes or he/she would know they are still majority AA and the school does not have black children that have not been "tracked" away from white and Asian middle class kids.

Really, the false information on this Board is stunning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The tracking is achievement-based and based on English proficiency. No one wanted to have kids who weren't doing well in English while spending time in immersion Chinese. That doesn't make sense, does it?

And for goodness sake, if you can't figure out the name of the school how can you expect people to take your questions seriously?

You are right; I have never really considered Yu Ying a viable option and never really bothered to learn name. Point well taken!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The tracking is achievement-based and based on English proficiency. No one wanted to have kids who weren't doing well in English while spending time in immersion Chinese. That doesn't make sense, does it?

And for goodness sake, if you can't figure out the name of the school how can you expect people to take your questions seriously?

You are right; I have never really considered Yu Ying a viable option and never really bothered to learn name. Point well taken!!!!

And guess what? Now you've learned what a troll is (yes, you've just outed yourself as a troll).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yu ying is now a mostly white and asian school. Was majority african american, but no longer the case with lower grades. Yu Ying "tracks" underachieving students into non-immersion track to "catch up" for the standardized tests.

All kids in the "catch-up" track are African American. They have essentially figured out a way to track the underperforming black kids away from the white and Asian middle class kids.

I am a parent in one of the top two grades. This is so insulting on many levels--including to other African American parents who have very high achieving kids in the top two grades. There are still more African American children that are still in the immersion model than their are white and Asian students in the top two classes. My child's regular immersion class is majority AA. The person who posted what I quoted above obviously doesn't have any first hand knowledge of the actual make up of the top two classes or he/she would know they are still majority AA and the school does not have black children that have not been "tracked" away from white and Asian middle class kids.

Really, the false information on this Board is stunning.

Your post still doesn't answer the question. Is the "differentiated curriculum class" DCC is what they call it, all black or not? I'm happy that the other class has black children in it but that doesn't answer the question on this board.

[Anonymous]

The tracking thing has always bothered me:

1) If their charter is Chinese immersion, then how are they getting away with non-Chinese immersion?
2) Many people on these boards have referenced the fact that test scores for bilingual students in general tend to be lower in the ES grades, and then these students catch up and surpass their peers in MS and HS. So YY tracking the poor performers away from Chinese seems to demonstrate a lack of faith in the bilingual model, as these kids are being deprived of the long-term benefit of a bilingual education.

It seems to me that the school is yelling "fire" too quickly.

[Anonymous]

Check the archives - lots of discussion already on the situation re the differentiated curriculum. In terms of racial breakdown, my daughter's class is approx 45 percent African-American, 45 percent white, and 10 percent Asian and Asian-American.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Check the archives - lots of discussion already on the situation re the differentiated curriculum. In terms of racial breakdown, my daughter's class is approx 45 percent African-American, 45 percent white, and 10 percent Asian and Asian-American.

Which grade?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yu ying is now a mostly white and asian school. Was majority african american, but no longer the case with lower grades. Yu Ying "tracks" underachieving students into non-immersion track to "catch up" for the standardized tests.

All kids in the "catch-up" track are African American. They have essentially figured out a way to track the underperforming black kids away from the white and Asian middle class kids.

There is something terribly wrong with this. They found a way to track the black kids away from the white and Asian kids. If immersion is pRt of the charter, how can Yu Ying not provide immersion to these children. I smell a rat, but it's hidden behind the walls.

You smell a rat but the rat is 15:21.

Can we all stop doing this stalker or reporter or lawyer's work for him/her? OP: why don't you call the school administration and ask all your questions? They'll give you all the information you want to know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It was not with the full cooperation of the parents. They were lots of angst, arguing and dissension as evidenced in the school meetings and PTA meetings. I know of at least one parent pulled her child and the child is now attending private.

I know another parent who pulled her kid and the kid is now at another DCPS.

[Anonymous]

A group of parents were talking about seeking legal action against YY for making their children go to this track.