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[quote=Anonymous]My DD has a classmate whose family did this with their 3 kids. They joined her private school in preschool, K, and 2nd grade. The kids are shin-issei and spoke only Japanese. They had one parent who had grown up Nisei but returned to Japan for university, so that parent was familiar with both countries and educational systems. Our school is fairly structured and has small class sizes, and minimal homework until later grades. The siblings learned English relatively quickly. They go to Saturday school and they have a lot of homework from Saturday school. We try to schedule social and Girl Scout activities around their Saturday school commitment. I think you want to consider a school with a light homework load and think about how to fit extracurriculars in if you plan to do Saturday school, because otherwise it would be hard to socialize and participate in activities that would help them settle in.[/quote]
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