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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hello, there's more than one native speaker who's down on YY on these threads.

Sorry, not buying that there are several fully bilingual families behind your kid's class at YY.

What we observed is that there are far more bilingual Chinese-speaking parents involved than kids. When we were enrolled in 2015, admins told us that there were at least two dozen fully bilingual kids in the school. No way, almost all of these kids only spoke a little of the family's dialect, and maybe some Mandarin.  The Chinese taught was a joke to our children.

Over the years, I've observed that DC parents whose kids speak Chinese almost never go for YY.  Not that the situation is of concern to the parents they get.

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Fact is, YY isn't a program with a system in place to serve students who arrive speaking good Chinese (including expat kids whose parents are not native speakers), and to support their language learning.

Admins won't tell you this, no, but you can find out easily enough on the native speaker grapevine around town.[/quote]

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