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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks for the concern, really, but YY kids are fine. They can all read and write, and [b]many are conversant in Chinese [/b]by the time they graduate. There are many international families who speak other languages at home, who know a thing or two about language acquisition and still choose YY. Come by at pickup and you will hear French, Italian, Russian, Amharic, Japanese and more. They are not all crazy or delusional negligent parents.

All YY graduates that we know (we've had three kids there so quite a few) have gone on to do well at DCI, private schools, and other middle and high schools in DC and the suburbs. It's okay. Peace out, folks.[/quote]

You know that these kids are "conversant" because you're what, fluent?

We're native speakers who left YY just last year. The truth is that only a small number YY students speak passable Chinese by the time they leave. These are the kids whose families have hosted au pairs for years, and/or have a native-speaking parent who's worked hard to require the kids to answer Chinese w/Chinese through the years.  The % of these kids is in the single digits.  The % of intl families who really speak other languages at home also in the single digits.

More than 80% of YY students, speak what I can only describe as hopeless Chinese by the time they graduate for all those years of immersion. I wish that the program were the success you describe, but it's not.  If it were, we'd have stayed. [b]But, yes, many of the kids turn out "fine" anyway for the simple reason that they're being raised by highly educated, affluent parents[/b].[/quote]

Yes, we are mostly highly educated and affluent. So I'm not sure why you come coming back here to concern troll us about how clueless we are.[/quote]

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