Yu Ying voted best elementary school in D.C.

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Anonymous wrote:Isn't that a reader's poll? Founding Farmers was voted best american restaurant three years in a row. Does anyone really believe that is true. If so, I pity this city's taste buds.

HA HA. +1000

No, just two years. Probably the "obama date night" effect.

Actually, it was four years. 2010, 2011, 2012, and now 2013. You have to scroll around to see it, it isn't always at the top.

Hmm, there's a lot there to agree with: some old favorites and some new names. Great list! Jose Andres, 2Amys, H & Pizza, Granville Moore's, WholeFoods, Community Forklift, 9:30 Club, Busboys & Poets, National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden -- lots of good company to be in!

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I'm just excited the school we're going to was a runner up. Yay IT!

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This is truly not a knock on YY, but I think it is very weird that anyone would put any value on this. All is shows is that the person doing so has no idea how to evaluate a school.

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Anonymous wrote:This is truly not a knock on YY, but I think it is very weird that anyone would put any value on this. All is shows is that the person doing so has no idea how to evaluate a school.

Lighten up Francis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OnpkDWbeJs

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Obviously a mistake. Any really objective party would agree that Mann is the best elementary by a longshot. However due to Mann's demographics no one here will ever admit that.

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Anonymous wrote:This is truly not a knock on YY, but I think it is very weird that anyone would put any value on this. All is shows is that the person doing so has no idea how to evaluate a school.

Lighten up Francis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

Possibly the worst Francis reference ever. Ever.

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Anonymous wrote:Obviously a mistake. Any really objective party would agree that Mann is the best elementary by a longshot. However due to Mann's demographics no one here will ever admit that.

It would be really REALLY hard to be a bad elementary school with Mann's demographics and the SES of it's students. Are there ANY "bad" schools in neighborhoods with 1 mil+ houses.

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I would suggest taking troll provocations down a notch. Some of his/her posts in the past have made me concerned about him/her.

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^ should I be concerned the OP troll will find out who I am and picket my house with her "YY Rocks - Suck It" sign?

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What those handing out awards don't know, or perhaps care, is that YY kids try to speak English to their Chinese teachers about half the time. Our Chinese au pair discovered this when she recently volunteered in an upper grades YY class for several days straight.

The teachers from China do their best to force them to speak Mandarin in Chinese class, but it's a tough sell with only 1 or 2 fully bilingual native-speaking kids per grade. Yea, per grade, not per class.

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Anonymous wrote:What those handing out awards don't know, or perhaps care, is that YY kids try to speak English to their Chinese teachers about half the time. Our Chinese au pair discovered this when she recently volunteered in an upper grades YY class for several days straight.

The teachers from China do their best to force them to speak Mandarin in Chinese class, but it's a tough sell with only 1 or 2 fully bilingual native-speaking kids per grade. Yea, per grade, not per class.

I think the lack of native speakers has been well-covered on these boards. The City Paper "Best of" awards are reader's choice. There is no doubt that YY parents are overall extremely happy with their school. It's lovely that your au pair is volunteering; I'm sure it's helpful to get other Chinese speakers into the classroom.

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Anonymous wrote:What those handing out awards don't know, or perhaps care, is that YY kids try to speak English to their Chinese teachers about half the time. Our Chinese au pair discovered this when she recently volunteered in an upper grades YY class for several days straight.

The teachers from China do their best to force them to speak Mandarin in Chinese class, but it's a tough sell with only 1 or 2 fully bilingual native-speaking kids per grade. Yea, per grade, not per class.

I think the lack of native speakers has been well-covered on these boards. The City Paper "Best of" awards are reader's choice. There is no doubt that YY parents are overall extremely happy with their school. It's lovely that your au pair is volunteering; I'm sure it's helpful to get other Chinese speakers into the classroom.

Agree completely. What a nice thing to do!

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Anonymous wrote:What those handing out awards don't know, or perhaps care, is that YY kids try to speak English to their Chinese teachers about half the time.

This is true in pretty much any secondary language situation. We try to use as much Japanese at home as possible with the kids, but they will much more often than not respond in English, not Japanese. That doesn't mean they don't comprehend what we said, it's just more natural to respond in English.

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Exactly. The kids in the Spanish bilingual programs who speak spanish as their dominant language try to talk to their teachers in Spanish. Wow, YY poster, can't believe you knock your own school. What a gem you are.

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Anonymous wrote:Exactly. The kids in the Spanish bilingual programs who speak spanish as their dominant language try to talk to their teachers in Spanish. Wow, YY poster, can't believe you knock your own school. What a gem you are.

Somehow I doubt that's the case.