Yu Ying

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We thought we were golden at YY until we moved on to a top DC private for 6th grade. The school made our kid take a remedial English course the summer before enrolling (although he got 5s on the PARCC for ELA) and wasn't impressed with his Chinese either. They interviewed him partially in Mandarin.

We're AA and don't speak Chinese at home. Wish things were different.

Assuming you stayed with YY, what do you wish you had done differently? Tutoring?

Moved to a 4-bedroom place, large enough to host a Chinese au pair for the entire time we were at YY, and made the 15-18K/yr investment, period.

The private we're at takes Chinese instruction more seriously than YY/DCI, even though it's not technically an immersion program. The kids in advanced classes can really speak and there are more native speakers/competition. It was a shock to the system at first, now we love it (but not the tuition).

Don't get sucked into YY ELA + Mandarin "the cognitive boost is what we value most" La-La land if you're serious about bilingualism. They're decent on math though, no issues there at the private.

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Anonymous wrote:PP again. From this thread it seems like the challenge with YY is learning English rather than Chinese, and parents should supplement with English.

The research is pretty clear that bilingual education improves learning in the native language. There are literally hundreds of peer reviewed studies proving this.

Could YY in particular improve ELA instruction? Probably . The PP whose kid went from YY to a top private and needed added writing instruction would probably have had the same problem coming out of Murch. The one advantage privates have over publics is that the small class sizes let teachers assign and grade a lot more essays.

Agree with this and would just add that I believe the research shows that there is often an initial lag in language development for kids who start out with two languages, but then the kids typically catch up and even surpass monolingual counterparts.

YY parents love to claim this, citing studies. My inconvenient question is, who's your competition?

At our JKLM, ELA instruction has been a lot stronger than what we got at YY, and so is the Chinese instruction at our MD heritage program. It can be difficult to justify the need to "catch up" when many of the YY kids never progress beyond what amounts to kindergarten spoken Chinese. Yea, you don't want to hear this as a parent, not when you love the warm and welcoming program, lovely campus etc.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PP again. From this thread it seems like the challenge with YY is learning English rather than Chinese, and parents should supplement with English.

The research is pretty clear that bilingual education improves learning in the native language. There are literally hundreds of peer reviewed studies proving this.

Could YY in particular improve ELA instruction? Probably . The PP whose kid went from YY to a top private and needed added writing instruction would probably have had the same problem coming out of Murch. The one advantage privates have over publics is that the small class sizes let teachers assign and grade a lot more essays.

Agree with this and would just add that I believe the research shows that there is often an initial lag in language development for kids who start out with two languages, but then the kids typically catch up and even surpass monolingual counterparts.

YY parents love to claim this, citing studies. My inconvenient question is, who's your competition?

At our JKLM, ELA instruction has been a lot stronger than what we got at YY, and so is the Chinese instruction at our MD heritage program. It can be difficult to justify the need to "catch up" when many of the YY kids never progress beyond what amounts to kindergarten spoken Chinese. Yea, you don't want to hear this as a parent, not when you love the warm and welcoming program, lovely campus etc.

PP here. Not a YY parent (at another immersion school). Notice I mentioned bilinguals vs. monolinguals. Obviously if your kids attend a strong English school and attend Saturday school, that's awesome, but not the comparison I was making.

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Anonymous wrote:Can current parents give insight on how much before and aftercare is? For someone who won’t qualify for any vouchers or assistance

It's very expensive

How much specifically?

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Yu Ying versus North Arlington public elementary school. Go!

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Yu Ying versus North Arlington public elementary school. Go!

Just evaluating schools? YY.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can current parents give insight on how much before and aftercare is? For someone who won’t qualify for any vouchers or assistance

It's very expensive

How much specifically?

https://www.washingtonyuying.org/community/

Yu Ying’s REEF program is Monday-Thursday from 3:30-5:45 p.m. and Friday 1:00-5:45 p.m. Registration for REEF begins approximately two weeks before the start of the new sessions. Yu Ying offers three sessions per year during fall, winter, and spring. The payment schedule for REEF is flexible and based on a student’s’ level of participation. For example, a drop-in rate is $22 per day per child (M-Th) and the monthly full program rate is $450 per month per child. Yu Ying offers a reduced rate for families who qualify as well as sibling discounts. Yu Ying offers before school care as well from 7:30 a.m. to 8:10 a.m. Monday through Friday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Yu Ying versus North Arlington public elementary school. Go!

YY

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can current parents give insight on how much before and aftercare is? For someone who won’t qualify for any vouchers or assistance

It's very expensive

How much specifically?

https://www.washingtonyuying.org/community/

Yu Ying’s REEF program is Monday-Thursday from 3:30-5:45 p.m. and Friday 1:00-5:45 p.m. Registration for REEF begins approximately two weeks before the start of the new sessions. Yu Ying offers three sessions per year during fall, winter, and spring. The payment schedule for REEF is flexible and based on a student’s’ level of participation. For example, a drop-in rate is $22 per day per child (M-Th) and the monthly full program rate is $450 per month per child. Yu Ying offers a reduced rate for families who qualify as well as sibling discounts. Yu Ying offers before school care as well from 7:30 a.m. to 8:10 a.m. Monday through Friday.

I saw that. Is there a fee for before care?

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Do any current YY families know if they host a tour for PK matchee's, or should we contact the school to arrange an individual one? Only one of us took the tour before the lottery, so now that we matched would like spouse to get a feel for it too.

Separately, its nice hearing there are other PK4 new arrivals who will be starting fresh with us - its a bit intimidating starting language immersion joining kids who have already been doing it, I am glad there will be other newbies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PP again. From this thread it seems like the challenge with YY is learning English rather than Chinese, and parents should supplement with English.

The research is pretty clear that bilingual education improves learning in the native language. There are literally hundreds of peer reviewed studies proving this.

Could YY in particular improve ELA instruction? Probably . The PP whose kid went from YY to a top private and needed added writing instruction would probably have had the same problem coming out of Murch. The one advantage privates have over publics is that the small class sizes let teachers assign and grade a lot more essays.

Agree with this and would just add that I believe the research shows that there is often an initial lag in language development for kids who start out with two languages, but then the kids typically catch up and even surpass monolingual counterparts.

YY parents love to claim this, citing studies. My inconvenient question is, who's your competition?

At our JKLM, ELA instruction has been a lot stronger than what we got at YY, and so is the Chinese instruction at our MD heritage program. It can be difficult to justify the need to "catch up" when many of the YY kids never progress beyond what amounts to kindergarten spoken Chinese. Yea, you don't want to hear this as a parent, not when you love the warm and welcoming program, lovely campus etc.

It is very upsetting to pay north of a million dollars for an ugly unrenovated bungalow in Far Northwest. And you did it for the schools! And then you discover the cute little kid down the block got into Yu Ying via the lottery. Stupid, silly, crazy little aberation! She's going to destroy your child's education - not to mention your property value!

Yeah, your property value depends upon your access to Janney and YOU VISCERALLY HATE schools like Yu Ying and LAMB and Mundo Verde.

You better hurry up and slam them on DCUM! GO! Go hate! Go!

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Anonymous wrote:OP here - This is for PK4. Will learning to write suffer? How do they teach English writing if its Chinese only in PK level?

They shouldn't be teaching writing in PK anyway, it's not developmentally appropriate.

[Anonymous]

It is so easy to parody the Ward 3 parents who wish they got into Yu Ying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do any current YY families know if they host a tour for PK matchee's, or should we contact the school to arrange an individual one? Only one of us took the tour before the lottery, so now that we matched would like spouse to get a feel for it too.

Separately, its nice hearing there are other PK4 new arrivals who will be starting fresh with us - its a bit intimidating starting language immersion joining kids who have already been doing it, I am glad there will be other newbies.

Ditto! I’m gonna enroll my baby girl this Friday. Hope to see you

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Anyone know how many spots they had for prek3 and prek4?