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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The neighborhood is fantastic except for parking. The OA parent community is active. Not sure that math and science are strong enough in the middle school, as we left for 6th grade. Friends who stayed now have kids fluent in Mndarin as well. The middle school building is small, minimal outdoor space, so limited sports. I think there was afterschool swimming at Marie Reed though, intermittently. Looked at WIS and loved it, kids felt it was too small, especially given the difficulty in recruiting new, local, bilingual kids in upper grades.[/quote]

Are you saying that your friends' kids have become fluent in Mandarin by simply taking Mandarin classes at Oyster in middle school?  If so, that's quite remarkable.[/quote]Well, it's daily classes from 6th to 8th, in a school which specializes in languages. Not sure of the written part of it, I imagine that takes longer to gain competency. Kids who have deficits in English or Spanish do make-up lessons in those areas, they don't do Mandarin. Sometimes I wish we'd stayed, but decided the math was more important to our family.[/quote]

Wow--that's great to hear!  I'm looking forward to seeing how our children's Mandarin progresses while at Oyster.  Btw, I'm confident that the  middle  school will offer even more math  differentiation under the new principal--she has stated that it's one of her priorities.  She even hired a male AP who has an educational background/speciality in math.  Another great source for math prodigies at Oyster is Johns Hopkins CTY program. [/quote]

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