Yu Ying voted best elementary school in D.C.

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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.

+1 My bilingual Korean kids do the same.

[Anonymous]

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.

Why do you believe Mann is the best school?

[Anonymous]

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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.

Somehow you doubt what's the case? That a parent at a school that just got some nice positive recognition would feel obliged to write something shitty? I think it's odd and makes them look like a real ick.

[Anonymous]

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.

My observation has been that they only try to speak English when they haven't yet learned the Chinese. The PreK class already speaks Chinese during their lunch hour. I've heard that in 2nd grade they speak Chinese all the time on their Chinese days, even lunch and recess but don't know yet from experience.

Something quite impressive is that not only did YY teachers and administrators attend the ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) Annual Convention and World Languages Expo (http://www.actfl.org/conventions/2012-annual-convention-and-world-languages-expo), but YY was invited to present several lectures.

Additionally, the Head of School traveled to China at the invitation of Hanban (http://english.hanban.org/) (the Confucius Institute) to evaluate potential sister schools and explore further opportunities for YY students to study abroad.

Evidently these experts on both foreign language instruction, and on China, know what they like when they see it!



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[Anonymous]

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.

Having visited Mann many times, the only thing true about your statement is that you are not a really objective party. As JKLMs go, Mann is over-rated.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Somehow you doubt what's the case? That a parent at a school that just got some nice positive recognition would feel obliged to write something shitty? I think it's odd and makes them look like a real ick.

Doubtful that it is a YY parent. The post sounds like the same insane Cantonese poster who always posts the same complaint about not getting admissions preference for Cantonese speakers. Funny the wording mentions their Mandarin speaking au pair but nothing about their kids.