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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I disagree with the poster above.  I think the IB/PYP program works very well at Yu Ying.  I have a child in 4th grade.  Last Friday they had an exhibition on their electricity unit.  It was pretty cool to see my child and the rest of the class explaining circuitry in both Chinese and English.  Their exhibition last year in third grade on influential people was pretty cool too.  They were able to get into character and explain their accomplishments in Chinese.

I do not feel that my child is behind in any subject because of either immersion or because of the IB/PYP curriculum. [/quote]

You speak Mandarin?  You have Mandarin speaking relatives, or at least close friends?  So know that your kid's Mandarin is good?  We speak Chinese fluently, as do our children, we talk to Yu Ying kids in Chinese and generally aren't terribly impressed.  It's easy to tell that they aren't learning the language from peers, Chinese-speaking parents involved at the school, or at home (other than for a handful who have Chinese-speaking friends, the pals of our Chinese au pair).  The IB/PYP program works well at the international schools we attended growing up, in Hong Kong etc.  Yu Ying does a better job than a great many schools in DC, but, objectively speaking, it's a stretch to say it's all that great.

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