International trip for 5th graders?

[Anonymous]

Almost guaranteed this trip will not occur next year and what will happen in its place will be something entirely different altogether. Listen to what the lower grade parents are saying.

YY is a great school with great parents. We won't let this trip divide us -- we will do something better in its place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

perhaps a brave soul can start a conversation on the listserve so the real discussion can move there?

The school would shut it down by making it clear that they don't want the discussion on the list serve, just like they have every time someone tries to start a dialogue. Sadly, that is why so much of the discussion is here.

In the three years I've been a part of Yu Ying, I've never seen a conversation "shut down" on the listerve. Not sure where these stories come from. And the listserve is run by the parents (PA) not the school.

[Anonymous]

Is this forum still going? Not a good advertisement for Yu Ying, ladies. You all sound like a bunch of cackling hens. Pick a little talk a little.

Find something better to do.

[Anonymous]

"In the three years I've been a part of Yu Ying, I've never seen a conversation "shut down" on the listerve. Not sure where these stories come from. And the listserve is run by the parents (PA) not the school."

This is a lie or you are blind. Cluck. Cluck. Cluck.

[Anonymous]

Things don't get shut down. Some people get offended when their ideas are not supported and they claim they have been "shut down". There is a big difference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"In the three years I've been a part of Yu Ying, I've never seen a conversation "shut down" on the listerve. Not sure where these stories come from. And the listserve is run by the parents (PA) not the school."

This is a lie or you are blind. Cluck. Cluck. Cluck.

You are ridiculous. The school does not control the listserv, it is managed by the PA. If you don't know that, then you haven't been paying attention. Imagine what else about the school you aren't paying attention to, either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Things don't get shut down. Some people get offended when their ideas are not supported and they claim they have been "shut down". There is a big difference.

^This.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Almost guaranteed this trip will not occur next year and what will happen in its place will be something entirely different altogether. Listen to what the lower grade parents are saying.

YY is a great school with great parents. We won't let this trip divide us -- we will do something better in its place.

Dream on, silly...there are a ton of kids in that class whose parents support the trip and we're going to do all we can to fundraise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Almost guaranteed this trip will not occur next year and what will happen in its place will be something entirely different altogether. Listen to what the lower grade parents are saying.

YY is a great school with great parents. We won't let this trip divide us -- we will do something better in its place.

"almost guaranteed" is like "almost pregnant" it either is or isn't.

I'm a lower grade parent and I think the trip sounds great. I fully support it, and I know a lot of other parents who do too. Did you know the PreK class has already started fundraising? For my family, it will be a financial stretch, so the time to start saving is now but we're definitely in.

[Anonymous]

Keep on cackling, you hens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Keep on cackling, you hens.

Keep on howling, you hound.

[Anonymous]

Keep on calling each other names.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dream on, silly...there are a ton of kids in that class whose parents support the trip and we're going to do all we can to fundraise.

Great! Please fund raise to your heart's content. If you get a quarter million or so, the whole class can go for free, maybe even take a parent along!

Sounds like you're really eager to do this fundraising. That's great. Because I'm going to sit back and watch. I have better things to spend my money on than $20 cookbooks and marshmallow guns

[Anonymous]

Same here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Almost guaranteed this trip will not occur next year and what will happen in its place will be something entirely different altogether. Listen to what the lower grade parents are saying.

YY is a great school with great parents. We won't let this trip divide us -- we will do something better in its place.

We hope they have a trip every year. We send DC to YY for the mandarin, not because our in bound school sucks (which it does) but our alternative to YY was private schools. Feel very fortunate that DC got in and fully expect visiting China as part and parcel of learning mandarin. Makes perfect sense. As a parent who sends DC to YY because it is a Chinese immersion school, I would be very disappointed if they stopped doing the trip for the fifth graders.