Yu Ying parents, what are the school pros and cons?

[Anonymous]

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Pros: Mandarin, warm nurturing environment, caring wonderful teachers and staff, great community.

Cons: difficult to get in.

[Anonymous]

Pro: great building and environment, IB curriculum, Chinese immersion opportunity.

Con: lots of work for kids and adults (Chinese resources, Chinese reading nightly), very young and relatively inexperienced teachers.

[Anonymous]

OP here. Many thanks for your responses. I read a post from a supposed YY parent in Great Schools that says that there is bullying in the school. It is that true?

[Anonymous]

Pros: Great location, diverse population, Chinese curriculum, great test scores
Cons: The belief that I'm doing right by my child by exposing him to Chinese. Which, I struggle with the fact that he may never use it outside of those 4 walls. And I can't really help him learn or really know what he is saying. The sinking feeling that you drank the Kool-aid. You also never feel welcome in the school also.

Signed,

A parent ready to jump ship

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Many thanks for your responses. I read a post from a supposed YY parent in Great Schools that says that there is bullying in the school. It is that true?

None that we've experienced and my kid has an IEP and diagnosed social issues. Everyone is really nice and the school will address anything remotely like bullying immediately.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pros: Great location, diverse population, Chinese curriculum, great test scores
Cons: The belief that I'm doing right by my child by exposing him to Chinese. Which, I struggle with the fact that he may never use it outside of those 4 walls. And I can't really help him learn or really know what he is saying. The sinking feeling that you drank the Kool-aid. You also never feel welcome in the school also.

Signed,

A parent ready to jump ship

Can you tell us more about this poster? What do you mean about the kool aid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pros: Great location, diverse population, Chinese curriculum, great test scores
Cons: The belief that I'm doing right by my child by exposing him to Chinese. Which, I struggle with the fact that he may never use it outside of those 4 walls. And I can't really help him learn or really know what he is saying. The sinking feeling that you drank the Kool-aid. You also never feel welcome in the school also.

Signed,

A parent ready to jump ship

+1. At LAMB in my case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pros: Great location, diverse population, Chinese curriculum, great test scores
Cons: The belief that I'm doing right by my child by exposing him to Chinese. Which, I struggle with the fact that he may never use it outside of those 4 walls. And I can't really help him learn or really know what he is saying. The sinking feeling that you drank the Kool-aid. You also never feel welcome in the school also.

Signed,

A parent ready to jump ship

+1. At LAMB in my case.

Interesting. But there is just no way Chinese and Spanish are comparable in this respect. Half of this country speaks Spanish; knowing it is always useful, even if not always in a professional context. You cannot say the same of Chinese.

[Anonymous]

It's language immersion school so if you don't development some connection and enthusiasm about your child learning Mandarin, you are never going to be happy... and learning Mandarin is hard work.

My DC is grades ahead in English but struggles in Mandarin. Life will be a lot easier if he only had to learn in English but we slug through with tutors (we know zero Mandarin) bc we think learning Mandarin is worth it. Drank the Kool-Aid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's language immersion school so if you don't development some connection and enthusiasm about your child learning Mandarin, you are never going to be happy... and learning Mandarin is hard work.

My DC is grades ahead in English but struggles in Mandarin. Life will be a lot easier if he only had to learn in English but we slug through with tutors (we know zero Mandarin) bc we think learning Mandarin is worth it. Drank the Kool-Aid.

Curious why you think it is worth it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's language immersion school so if you don't development some connection and enthusiasm about your child learning Mandarin, you are never going to be happy... and learning Mandarin is hard work.

My DC is grades ahead in English but struggles in Mandarin. Life will be a lot easier if he only had to learn in English but we slug through with tutors (we know zero Mandarin) bc we think learning Mandarin is worth it. Drank the Kool-Aid.

Curious why you think it is worth it?

For our kid, Mandarin will be more useful. We have family in Asia (not Chinese) and DS may want to work there someday.

[Anonymous]

My worry about immersion when the household does not speak the language is that it seems families end up needing to pay for tutors - which is really not something we can afford to take on. This worries me if the only way to be supportive is to try toay for something we can't afford. Anyone have an opinion on whether it really is necessary to pay for tutors if your household does not speak Chinese and it would be difficult to provide thT exposure on a constant and regular basis outside of school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My worry about immersion when the household does not speak the language is that it seems families end up needing to pay for tutors - which is really not something we can afford to take on. This worries me if the only way to be supportive is to try toay for something we can't afford. Anyone have an opinion on whether it really is necessary to pay for tutors if your household does not speak Chinese and it would be difficult to provide thT exposure on a constant and regular basis outside of school?

Really depends on the kid. Some kids do well without outside support. I'm the pp who is slugging it and we didn't get a tutor until this year, second grade, when DS slid below benchmarks. Apparently, DS's expressive language is way below receptive in Mandarin. I'm bilingual and know that this is very common when kids are learning a language but didn't want to wait and see if his expressive language in Mandarin will catch up.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't do it if I knew for a fact we could not afford a tutor.