Immersion school parent are you also sending your child to Kumon or another learning center?

[Anonymous]

We plan on sending our DD to immersion school next year but we are concerned about her be delayed in general reading and math in English. Is it common for parents to supplement with Kumon? I wish it wasn't so expensive.

[Anonymous]

Bilingual program (e.g., one day English, next day Spanish or another language) or full-day, full-year immersion?

[Anonymous]

OP, never heard this to be common but even private school parents send their kids. I would consider if my child fell behind but right now DC is advanced or on track depending on the subject. I also supplement at home using online materials and try to apply school concepts at home or when we are in the community. This may be overwhelming if you have never attempted to teach a child- some require a lot of patience! I teach college freshman so I find it not too difficult to work with my child.

[Anonymous]

We're doing full-day, full-year immersion for preK, YY obviously. We're not going to supplement but DC can sound out/read simple words in English and do addition/subtraction. Not planning on supplementing. The school day will be long enough.

[Anonymous]

DD currently enrolled in an immersion program. We will supplement with Kumon, of necessary. We will make make our decision mid-year. I agree with previous poster. The school day is long enough. Hopefully, we won't need to add Kumon, and our little one can just enjoy her evening at home visiting the park or playing with the dog.

[Anonymous]

Yu Ying's aftercare program has an English reading/writing class 2 days a week for PK students. We've enrolled our son in this; I think he's already getting sufficient math around the house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We plan on sending our DD to immersion school next year but we are concerned about her be delayed in general reading and math in English. Is it common for parents to supplement with Kumon? I wish it wasn't so expensive.

What age? Is child already delayed? If not, don't worry too much unless your child is older than 1st grade without English. Very few children in immersion programs beecome delayed in English because of immersion. Talk to school and teachers before supplementing for English. There are plenty of free resources.

[Anonymous]

My DC goes to Kumon for remedial help (and it's been a great help BTW). I've talked with a parent there who has kids at YY. She spoke highly of the immersion education. Her kid needed more practice with math, just as mine did, but the immersion wasn't named as a problem.

[Anonymous]

The math instruction (at least in the higher grades) is horrible at Yu Ying. Even if you don't have to supplement on the PreK level, you will eventually. Unless the Yu Ying admin decides to spend some money on teachers who know how to teach Every Day Math.

[Anonymous]

Wow, I love Yu Ying parents... you make the rest of us seem sane.

“The best you can say is that they’re useless,” said Alison Gopnik, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, who compared the escalation of supplemental education with Irish elk competing to see which had the biggest antlers. “The result is that they go around tottering, unable to walk, under the enormous weight of these antlers they’ve developed,” she said. “I think it’s true of American parents from high school all the way down to preschool.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/fashion/with-kumon-fast-tracking-to-kindergarten.html?pagewanted=all

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The math instruction (at least in the higher grades) is horrible at Yu Ying. Even if you don't have to supplement on the PreK level, you will eventually. Unless the Yu Ying admin decides to spend some money on teachers who know how to teach Every Day Math.

I am curious. What makes you think the math instruction in the higher grades is horrible? When I look at the range of test scores it would appear that some kids are at the highest achievement level and others are not. There is a large range, but not anything to indicate that there is a failure of the school to teach. Both of my kids at Yu Ying seem to be doing well in math, (i.e. making progress and doing as well as their peers at other schools). I don't see them as being behind or a lack of teaching. Am I missing something?

I would supplement only if a child was falling behind. I think that there are other things that are important too -- music, sports, just sitting around with a good book.

[adinaINdc]

I think it's unnecessary, honestly. If you look at kids growing up in Europe, for example, who are speaking three or four languages, I'm guessing that moms and dads there aren't supplementing education.

I'm also a Yu Ying mom and we speak another language at home. My kids are doing well in all three languages. We did have a tutor for our oldest last year for the Chinese and I imagine we'll keep her this year for both our boys, just to help them with the Chinese homework because I'm really no help at all.

I agree with the notion that if you're kids are falling behind, call in the help sooner rather than later. But until then, sit back an watch in amazement at what their little brains can soak up.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the feedback