Yu Ying - Transferring to Yu Ying from another state
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Anonymous
| It is federal law, but only applies to the District of Columbia. We are at Congress's whim. |
Anonymous
So we who have lived in DC should have less of a chance then you who have lived in Bismark or San New whatever? Play the lottery like the rest of us. |
Anonymous
If you are seriously going to move here, you might want to spend about 5 min googling the District of Columbia. What country are you from? |
Anonymous
Complaining? I don't recall complaining, I questioned the law. I am grateful to know that I can remove Yu Ying from my list and pursue other Mandarin Immersion options. Mandarin Immersion schools are scarce in most cities, and any parent who has invested time, money and other resources in an immersion language is eager to find a school that will accept transfers. I would think that anyone would see the benefit of being able to enroll their child into an immersion school in higher grades as space becomes available. All schools loose students each year for many reasons, and it would seem beneficial to fill those spots. |
Anonymous
Well from what I have read here, the lottery is NOT available past 2nd grade, so I that is not an option. If your child is proficient in the target language, then your child should have the ability to apply for places in upper grades. |
Anonymous
| OP, any chance we can convince you not to move to DC? We have quite a lot of self-entitled, officious douchebags here already. No need to add to the count, especially someone who would be at the head of the list. |
Anonymous
Sure, we'd all like that, but it's not a fair system and DC charter lotteries are about being fair and equalizing the playing field. Allowing someone who has language proficiency to gain easy access to a school as reputable as Yu Ying (note: I am not a YY parent, but am a charter school parent) OVER a student who is not gives advantage to the proficient student when entry at every other point in every other school at every other grade is purely random (other than sibling preference). If you have the money, let's say, to enroll your child in private Mandarin lessons to reach proficiency, even though that's not your case, I realize, you really think that should allow you access to a school over a child from a family in DC who really wants their child to have a great education but may not have the money for such extras? Welcome to DC and welcome to DCUM. |
Anonymous
I suggest you go back and look at the law, go back and look at the history and testimonies from 1995. The primary purpose of the DC charter system has never had anything to do with vulnerability or who was served, the purpose was to spur INNOVATION in DC's educational system. It doesn't "siphon off resources" as charters receive less funding per student than DCPS schools do - that is pure fiction. And additionally, to suggest students who aren't in charters are "underserved" is no knock against charters - in fact it exposes the sad reality that it is DCPS who is underserving those kids in the first place. |
Anonymous
No, that is you point of you because it benefits you. |
Anonymous
And that is exactly my point: DC is not a county in MD or a county in VA. It's DC. You sound like someone who has done a lot of good research, but because you questioned Yu Ying as if they were refusing to do something that other "DC area" schools are doing according to you, it sounds like you don't realize that DC is on its own. That's important for you to understand. |
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Anonymous
| Yu Ying is out for you now, but if you do end up IN DC (not "near DC"), you should google DC International IB school. DCI will be a middle and high school in DC and Yu Ying is a feeder school to DCI, and even though you still have to enter the lottery to apply and still won't test in for proficiency, IF your child did get in and had continued learning Mandarin in the meantime, they could do upper level Mandarin through 12th grade at DCI. DCI founders estimate 6th through 12th graders focusing on Mandarin will spend a minimum of 35% of each week learning subjects in Mandarin. |
Anonymous
P.s. I say "focusing on Mandarin" because the 4 other feeder schools all teach Spanish and one of those Spanish schools also teaches French. So DCI will have dual language tracks in all 3 languages and also expect each student to learn a 3rd language (after the terget language and English). |
Anonymous
+2 |
Anonymous
May I suggest McLean? You sound like you'd fit in nicely there. |