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Anonymous wrote:yonster wrote:Hello helpful moms and dads,
We are heading to VA this summer in time for next school year in Fall 2015.
We have children who have been learning Mandarin regularly for the last few years and we would like to continue after we move.
I have 3 kiddos who will in the upper elementary grades. 3,5,6 grades.
My two younger ones are currently in a advance math "track"
My main question is...
Is mandarin offered in Chesterbrook or Shrevewood and the middle school enough? Did the school test the students to put them in a proper level?
Do you have supplemental outside lessons to keep up with the language?
Currenly our school has 2 - 30minutes lessons so we supplement it with 2-1 hour lessons 1:2 private lesson.
I just feel with laguage you need a lot of exposure... (ps we, the parents, do not speak mandarin)
If you are supplementing, can you let me knwo where you are taking them or who you are using?
Thanks!!!!!
Are you Chinese? What's the point of learning Mandarin in elementary schools, otherwise? It's not a very useful language unless you think your children will some day live in China...
Nope not Chinese. Korean American actually but we've been living in ASia for the past 11 years and everywhere we go we hear Chinese. EVERYWHERE. I want to give my kids the option to be whereever they want when they are in their career stage. Learning one of the most difficult language would be something that's easier to acquire at the earlier age and I don't want them to lose what they have already. It's more of a maintenance. They have an understanding of Korean and can read Korean slowly as well. Chinese is something we picked up on the side and was able to continue very cheaply so we definietly want to keep it up. As my kids are third culture kids, there's a higher chance they will roam around and not stay put in one place...
Thanks for your comment.
This is OP, Thank you for your comments and help.
So the best option for me is to choose a best school then just supplement with outside mandarin?
I feel like more exposure the better.
I'm looking around rent/buy and the area for Chesterbrook is quite small and is very limited and expensive.
I might consider other McLean schools (or even oakton/vienna) if I can get a good outside mandarin program. Can anyone recommend me?? Is the "northern virginia chinese school" the only other option other then private tutoring which I can't afford in the states ($75/hr a norm???)
Thank you all, you are all so helpful!
So the best option for me is to choose a best school then just supplement with outside mandarin?
I feel like more exposure the better.
I'm looking around rent/buy and the area for Chesterbrook is quite small and is very limited and expensive.
I might consider other McLean schools (or even oakton/vienna) if I can get a good outside mandarin program. Can anyone recommend me?? Is the "northern virginia chinese school" the only other option other then private tutoring which I can't afford in the states ($75/hr a norm???)
Thank you all, you are all so helpful!
Anonymous wrote:This was the weirdest thread ever.
1. OP's acquiantance offers to make cake pops for a party and brings them
2. OP LATER finds out said acquiantance has a business BUT never asked OP to pay.
3. OP PAYS acquiantance and then later says "hey i paid you".
AWKWARD
haha totally.
As a business woman, myself, if you don't ask, you will not receive.
We can't rely on the nicenss of our customers to pay us without letting them know that it's a service-for-fee.
You have state the price and see if they customer even wants the service for whatever price or product.
Who knows? Maybe the OP wouldn't have wanted the pops if she considered it too much for the budget!
Obviously the baker is inexperienced. but I'm sure she learned her lesson.
It WAS SUPER NICE of the OP to consider and DID MAKE THE payment when she wasn't asked to do so.
Not very smart of the baker to never mention it and it should've been a lesson to her. But thankful for the OP, she got paid.
Anyway, let's be all be nice.
Hello helpful moms and dads,
We are heading to VA this summer in time for next school year in Fall 2015.
We have children who have been learning Mandarin regularly for the last few years and we would like to continue after we move.
I have 3 kiddos who will in the upper elementary grades. 3,5,6 grades.
My two younger ones are currently in a advance math "track"
My main question is...
Is mandarin offered in Chesterbrook or Shrevewood and the middle school enough? Did the school test the students to put them in a proper level?
Do you have supplemental outside lessons to keep up with the language?
Currenly our school has 2 - 30minutes lessons so we supplement it with 2-1 hour lessons 1:2 private lesson.
I just feel with laguage you need a lot of exposure... (ps we, the parents, do not speak mandarin)
If you are supplementing, can you let me knwo where you are taking them or who you are using?
Thanks!!!!!
We are heading to VA this summer in time for next school year in Fall 2015.
We have children who have been learning Mandarin regularly for the last few years and we would like to continue after we move.
I have 3 kiddos who will in the upper elementary grades. 3,5,6 grades.
My two younger ones are currently in a advance math "track"
My main question is...
Is mandarin offered in Chesterbrook or Shrevewood and the middle school enough? Did the school test the students to put them in a proper level?
Do you have supplemental outside lessons to keep up with the language?
Currenly our school has 2 - 30minutes lessons so we supplement it with 2-1 hour lessons 1:2 private lesson.
I just feel with laguage you need a lot of exposure... (ps we, the parents, do not speak mandarin)
If you are supplementing, can you let me knwo where you are taking them or who you are using?
Thanks!!!!!