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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Do you know anything about this school? It has never had PK3. It just wasn't started.

While I agree from a language acquisition point of view that starting at 3 would be much better, especially with a difficult language like Chinese, I also understand there's only so much they can bite off at a time. They need to design the curriclum and hire new teachers for a new grade every year,[/quote]

Right, sorry, I misspoke about "dropping" pk3.

I am not a YY or charter parent.  I am a native speaker of a different Asian language, though and it seems to me that YY is missing, willfully, the opportunity here year after year to meet their mission of bilingual students.

Cut funds from elsewhere, shift the budget -- this can always be done although it's usually and admittedly quite painful.  ie, maybe the pk4- 4th graders need a little less art every week for a year in order to fund those 2 new pk3 teachers and put them in their own room.     Or music, or a math specialist?  I'm not looking at their operating budget so I can't make specific recommendations.   I have however managed a big budget and been a board member of a private school so I have a working knowledge of what is generally involved with priority shifting.

Catching them while they're young and within that window would seem a priority, given the schools stated mission.

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