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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For Yu Ying:

All students:  51% ELA/59% Math

3rd Grade:  31/46
4th Grade:  69/68
5th Grade:  69/73

What is going on with 3rd grade which is the current 4th?!?[/quote]
Two things:
1. Re ELA, the current 4th are the first cohort to receive 100% Chinese instruction in PK4. Previous years used the day of Chinese/day of English model. One year less of English instruction = lessened English proficiency.  
2. This is the bubble class--6 (now 5) classes in the grade rather than 4 (as for all other grades K & above). This means that at least two classes each year are getting teachers who didn't teach that grade the previous year. Again, it's easy to imagine that these kids with less-experienced teachers learned less. 
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We're in a younger grade at YY and I agree with this. Less English instruction makes a difference - but it tends to even out later, research shows.

[b]Also, this is the year for which YY went through its entire waitlist (hard to imagine at this point, I know). So there's less self-selectivity.[/b]

I don't know how third grade does in general with such tests (are they usually worse than older grades). Have a current third grader who is not terribly proficient with mice (used to iPads). [/quote]

Do you hear yourself? Yuk.[/qu

Seriously.  As a parent in this cohorts class I find that statement ridiculous and offensive. [/quote]

And untrue.  When the testing kids in 4th and 5th grades applied to Yu Ying, everyone who wanted to get in got accepted into Yu Ying and their scores are higher than the bubble class scores.  So the self selectivity factor is moot for the testing grades 3, 4 and 5.  The only difference between the bubble 3rd grade class and the 4th and 5th grades is that the bubble class preK was 100%  Mandarin while the 4th and 5th grade got 50% English/50% Mandarin in preK4...  And that YY had to scramble for teachers for the bubble class.

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