Washington Yu Ying feedback

[Anonymous]

Did you see the latest City Paper? Their cover story is a nice article on Yu Ying:


http://washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=36480

[Anonymous]

My ds is in kindergarten and I can't even begin to say enough good things about Yu Ying. The teachers are fantastic, the staff is wonderful, the curriculum is great, and my son loves it. He can actually write more characters in Chinese now than he can English words from memory!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My ds is in kindergarten and I can't even begin to say enough good things about Yu Ying.

Then please, for the love of it all, please stop being a sock puppet for this school. We know, it's a lovely, small, school in Brookland and you're all VERY, VERY HAPPY. We get it.

[Anonymous]

Do you people even know what sock puppets are? If you say you're a parent from the school, and you promote the school, then you're not a sock puppet. (A shill, maybe, but not a sock puppet). There's no intent to falsely claim objectivity or neutrality here. It's explicit partisanship, not sock puppetry.

[Anonymous]

@ 12:15,

I'm not the PP, but it IS a Yu Ying thread after all. I wonder where you think 12:00 should have posted her message? Or should she not speak up at all?

Obviously YOU are allowed to express an opinion (after all you just did) but it would be beyond the pale for all these other parents to do so - even on their own thread.

Might I suggest that if you don't want to read about Yu Ying, then perhaps instead of complaining - you should simply avoid clicking on what is pretty obviously a Yu Ying thread?

Just a thought, respectfully submitted...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you people even know what sock puppets are? If you say you're a parent from the school, and you promote the school, then you're not a sock puppet.

Unless you do so repeatedly in the hope of convincing others that many people love the school, not just lonely old you.

There's a fine line between positive feedback and sock puppeting, and it's probably not always applied fairly. I've posted positively about my child's school more than once and have not always identified myself as a repeat poster, so I'm vulnerable to sock puppet charges myself.

But I think one of the reasons for the negative reaction to some of the Yu Ying posts is the perception that at least one poster has started threads that are not ostensibly about Yu Ying in order to jump in with praise of the school. Also, the tone of many of these posts is very rah, rah. Providing more concrete information about the program and a more measured perspective of its strengths and weaknesses might actually do more to get people's attention.

[Anonymous]

(Also some of the posts sound weirdly alike: 13:31, 21:42, 12:00.)

[Anonymous]

I am 10:27 but not any of the three above so there are at least two of us...

[Anonymous]

Wow! A small group of parents with Kindergarten children (who would probably be in the same class) learning Chinese at age 5 (so they're probably acquiring the same skills!) post to the same thread because they're proud of their school. You know what else? I'll bet if you went to their PTA meetings you'd hear them saying similar things too! That's got to be very unusual among parents of children in the same cohort at the same school.

No doubt about it - you have uncovered a vast Yu Ying conspiracy.

Seriously, I can only speak for the second 12:27 poster above (myself) and it looks to me like you've got a chip on your shoulder.

I'm no rocket scientist, but if *I* didn't want to read about Yu Ying then I would not choose to deliberately click on,
read, and then post to (multiple times!) a Yu Ying thread.

But that (as the cool kids say) is just me.

[Anonymous]

You're taking up valuable real estate on the Recent Postings board. Collect your things and go home children.

[Anonymous]

If it were vast, that would speak well to the school. Tiny pretending to be vast is another matter.

And have you considered that people who are actually interested in the school may be put off by apparent sock-puppetry?

[Anonymous]

Yes. Everyone knows the only schools that multiple parents can post about are Mann, Murch, Lafayette, and Janney. (I hope I didn't forget anyone!) Any other schools with strong support must be sock puppets.

signed,

12:27 & 13:05 (so there must be at least 3 or 4 of us now!)

P.S. I can't help but wonder at the logic of someone who comes to someone else's thread and tells everyone else to be quiet and stop posting. You're only extending the stay on "valuable real estate."

Why not lead by example, instead?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You're taking up valuable real estate on the Recent Postings board. Collect your things and go home children.

Oh yes--you need that space to discuss where the Obama's are going to school don't you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. Everyone knows the only schools that multiple parents can post about are Mann, Murch, Lafayette, and Janney. (I hope I didn't forget anyone!) Any other schools with strong support must be sock puppets.

signed,

12:27 & 13:05 (so there must be at least 3 or 4 of us now!)

P.S. I can't help but wonder at the logic of someone who comes to someone else's thread and tells everyone else to be quiet and stop posting. You're only extending the stay on "valuable real estate."

Why not lead by example, instead?

Your posts and excessive use of emoticons are getting increasingly annoying. Hey, I have a great mascot for your school. You could be called the "Yu Ying Gnats." Give me a little while and I'll come up with your fight song! Then your kindergardener can translate it into Chinese symbols!! Bonus homework--in CHINESE. YAY!

[Anonymous]

For someone who's getting increasingly annoyed, you're doing a terrific job of hanging on my every word and scribble! That hook is in tight, eh old fish? I can tug just a little bit and you just POP up out of the ether gasping and sputtering with more impotent rage. And yet how tame: you don't even try to swim away.