Chinese Immersion school

[Anonymous]

I may be moving to DC and, for family reasons, want to enroll my children into Chinese immersion school. I believe the only in the area is YuYing and schools in Rockville. I likely prefer living in DC, but after looking at the charter game and desirability of YuYing, think its probably impossible. We will find out if we move in the winter, and I have a 4 year old that would be in her last year of Pre-K this coming fall. Is it pointless to consider DC if I consider this a priority? Are there any other Chiense immersion schools in DC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I may be moving to DC and, for family reasons, want to enroll my children into Chinese immersion school. I believe the only in the area is YuYing and schools in Rockville. I likely prefer living in DC, but after looking at the charter game and desirability of YuYing, think its probably impossible. We will find out if we move in the winter, and I have a 4 year old that would be in her last year of Pre-K this coming fall. Is it pointless to consider DC if I consider this a priority? Are there any other Chiense immersion schools in DC?

In DC proper- not counting the Virginia and Maryland suburbs? No, no other Chinese immersion schools. And haven't heard of any in the suburbs other than the Rockville options, although I don't follow those areas closely at all.

[Anonymous]

Thomson DCPS offers Mandarin. You'd have to live inbounds to attend.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your responses!

[Anonymous]

Miner Elementary is trying to add a Mandarian Immersion option.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thomson DCPS offers Mandarin. You'd have to live inbounds to attend.

Sorry to have posted wrong information above about no other Chinese immersion programs other than Yu Ying. Didn't know about Thomson's program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thomson DCPS offers Mandarin. You'd have to live inbounds to attend.

Sorry to have posted wrong information above about no other Chinese immersion programs other than Yu Ying. Didn't know about Thomson's program.

I think it had Chinese language, not immersion, correct? Not that that is so bad. I'll definitely look into it. I found a 2014 thread on that school:
http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/356029.page

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thomson DCPS offers Mandarin. You'd have to live inbounds to attend.

Same goes for Maury ES (Capitol Hill). Nice Chinese language (Mandarin) and cultural exposure program but by no means immersion.

[Anonymous]

Thomson most certainly does not have immersion. In fact its Chinese program has become very weak.

[Anonymous]

Do you speak Chinese at home? Some of us pass on "immersion" at YY (not entering the lottery), but speak dialects and teach characters at home. Our kids attend rigorous heritage language schools in MoCo on weekends (normally several hours on a Sat or Sun afternoon, including calligraphy class). There are four or five native-speaking DC families in our particular weekend program, none at YY. Our kids all speak Chinese well, albeit slangy Chinese...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you speak Chinese at home? Some of us pass on "immersion" at YY (not entering the lottery), but speak dialects and teach characters at home. Our kids attend rigorous heritage language schools in MoCo on weekends (normally several hours on a Sat or Sun afternoon, including calligraphy class). There are four or five native-speaking DC families in our particular weekend program, none at YY. Our kids all speak Chinese well, albeit slangy Chinese...

this is not true at all. There are two in our class of 18 alone! More in the school overall obviously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Miner Elementary is trying to add a Mandarian Immersion option.

That's not happening any time soon.

[Anonymous]

At Creative Minds kids have Mandarin twice a week... More for exposure than rigorous learning but still.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you speak Chinese at home? Some of us pass on "immersion" at YY (not entering the lottery), but speak dialects and teach characters at home. Our kids attend rigorous heritage language schools in MoCo on weekends (normally several hours on a Sat or Sun afternoon, including calligraphy class). There are four or five native-speaking DC families in our particular weekend program, none at YY. Our kids all speak Chinese well, albeit slangy Chinese...

this is not true at all. There are two in our class of 18 alone! More in the school overall obviously.

I belive PP meant none of the families in her heritage program attend YY.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you speak Chinese at home? Some of us pass on "immersion" at YY (not entering the lottery), but speak dialects and teach characters at home. Our kids attend rigorous heritage language schools in MoCo on weekends (normally several hours on a Sat or Sun afternoon, including calligraphy class). There are four or five native-speaking DC families in our particular weekend program, none at YY. Our kids all speak Chinese well, albeit slangy Chinese...

this is not true at all. There are two in our class of 18 alone! More in the school overall obviously.

I belive PP meant none of the families in her heritage program attend YY.

Well obviously they would not feel the need to go to a Saturday school when they're in the program Monday-Friday. I also send my child to a Saturday language school to learn both culture and language. If our heritage language was offered as an immersion school I would never waste my time bothering with our Saturday school either. I think the only benefit to a weekend heritage program is that very few if any outsiders attend. This means that there is a heavy-duty cultural aspect that may be de-emphasized in immersion schools. Otherwise I would prefer that my children attend a free charter school that does a wonderful job teaching my kids our heritage language. PP is either bitter or foolish.