Why wouldn't you pick immersion?

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Anonymous wrote:PP, do you use the Hope school or some other outside source to assist you in Chinese language instruction, or do you do it all yourself? We are interested in YY and don't live near a JKLM or comparable school, but if we don't get a slot, we'd like to know what others like you are doing to teach Mandarin anyway.

I can't imagine raising a child who speaks both Chinese and English well without being native speakers receiving lots of help from the extended family. We haven't been impressed with the Chinese of the older YY kids we speak Mandarin with, other than those whose families have hosted Chinese au pairs for years. We have headed to the same Rockville Sunday afternoon program (3 Hours) since our kids were 3 years old. All the students are from Immigrant families. Can't beat it. YY Seems pretty cruise by comparison, the emphasis being on inclusion/diversity vs, high standards. Good luck.

Interesting that you can't imagine it. I can't imagine a child who spends all of their PS/PK years learning nothing but Mandarin, then their entire school career from K - 5th grade learning literally half of their classwork in Mandarin NOT learning an astonishing amount. I don't really know what non-native Chinese parents expect their kids to pass as natives in the way they speak Mandarin, but I do know an entire school-ful of parents who know that their kids will graduate reading, speaking, and understanding a tremendous amount, hopefully on grade-level and beyond, and that in and of itself is amazing.

To say YY has an emphasis on "inclusion and diversity vs. high standards" when it's a public charter school that gets its students through a lottery is the most ridiculous and uninformed comment I've read about YY in ages. You don't understand a lot of things about the school, it's mission, what it seeks to achieve, or it's population, yet you are passing whole busloads of judgement on it. I guess in the end all is right in the world, because you don't like it and your kids don't go. We love it and feel incredibly lucky that our kids do go. Win-win, good note to end Mother's Day on!

Wow not a YY parent but also stunned by the sheer racism from Rockville Chinese school Parent. Please consider moving to Rockville full time you disgusting racist pig. Glad you did not get your kids into YY. What bothers you most, that black/white/Hispanic kids are speaking Chinese, or that they're doing so with your tax dollars. YY is excellent and I'm proud to have it in DC.

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I totally agree PP ^^. Rockville-sending parent barely stopped short of saying "All those kids of color speaking Mandarin... no thanks". You're not impressed Rockville parent? No one here is impressed with you either so guess we're even.

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I didn't read Rockville Sun school parent's post as racist. Just sounds like his/her kids have a head start since mom/dad use the language at home and in their community. It's natural that they may be more critical of the language acquisition level as a result of their own knowledge of it.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn't read Rockville Sun school parent's post as racist. Just sounds like his/her kids have a head start since mom/dad use the language at home and in their community. It's natural that they may be more critical of the language acquisition level as a result of their own knowledge of it.

You either missed or are choosing to ignore the "YY values inclusion and diversion over high standards". You don't recognize "inclusion and diversion" characterized as contrary to "hig standards" = racist? Must be nice in your tower.

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I guess so because I don't understand what the relevance is to race.

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Anonymous wrote:I guess so because I don't understand what the relevance is to race.

She's not talking about inclusion in Bridges terms dear.

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Doesn't make sense. First, what would be the need to disguise it with innuendo in this forum? Second, how could YY place a value on that when the student body is randomly chosen by lottery?

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Anonymous wrote:Doesn't make sense. First, what would be the need to disguise it with innuendo in this forum? Second, how could YY place a value on that when the student body is randomly chosen by lottery?

You're funny PP, now I get the joke: no innuendo ever on DCUM, no siree! Just here, minding our "always forthright" business... wink wink!

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I just shared this on the Lee vs. Stokes thread but thought I'd post here too...

I choose montessori over immersion because i think creating good learning and work habits first is more important that becoming bilingual. I was not raised in a bilingual environment or with Spanish until high school, and after a few years of living abroad and traveling I am now fluent in Spanish.

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Why wouldn't you pick expeditionary learning? That's a true gift that you can give your child.

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I would love expeditionary learning through K. After that, though, I would prefer a traditional curriculum.

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Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn't you pick expeditionary learning? That's a true gift that you can give your child.

So trite. I am sick of people saying "Why wouldn't you pick [insert specialized curriculum--Montessori, Reggio, expeditionary learning, IB, and most frequently dual language]." If it works for your kid, great, but are you really saying that you can't see that others might have different priorities for their children?

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Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn't you pick expeditionary learning? That's a true gift that you can give your child.

So trite. I am sick of people saying "Why wouldn't you pick [insert specialized curriculum--Montessori, Reggio, expeditionary learning, IB, and most frequently dual language]." If it works for your kid, great, but are you really saying that you can't see that others might have different priorities for their children?

It was sarcasm... mocking both the expeditionary learning and dual language cults. Apologies in advance to the whole-child-learning-model kool-aid drinkers. I think you're nuts too.

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Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn't you pick expeditionary learning? That's a true gift that you can give your child.

So trite. I am sick of people saying "Why wouldn't you pick [insert specialized curriculum--Montessori, Reggio, expeditionary learning, IB, and most frequently dual language]." If it works for your kid, great, but are you really saying that you can't see that others might have different priorities for their children?

It was sarcasm... mocking both the expeditionary learning and dual language cults. Apologies in advance to the whole-child-learning-model kool-aid drinkers. I think you're nuts too.

Sorry that I missed the sarcasm!

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Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn't you pick expeditionary learning? That's a true gift that you can give your child.

So trite. I am sick of people saying "Why wouldn't you pick [insert specialized curriculum--Montessori, Reggio, expeditionary learning, IB, and most frequently dual language]." If it works for your kid, great, but are you really saying that you can't see that others might have different priorities for their children?

It was sarcasm... mocking both the expeditionary learning and dual language cults. Apologies in advance to the whole-child-learning-model kool-aid drinkers. I think you're nuts too.

Sorry that I missed the sarcasm!

Sadly, there are people that are serious about stuff like that.