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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]YY parent here who disagrees that English instruction is deficient.[/quote]

YY parent who thinks it's OK, nothing special.  My kid got a little bored in 1st and we won't stay past 2nd if he can lottery into one of the better Hill schools. We provide him with more challenge at home than YY does, particulary in math.  Reading/writing instruction is better than math by a long shot, but I've heard from MS teachers (a good friend teaches math at Latin) this is the case throughout DCPS and DC Charter, even WOP.

Because of all the time spent on the Mandarin, you really have to supplement if you don't want your kid falling behind WOP, Hill and suburban peers.  Also, there were some discipline problems in his 1st grade class that I caught onto rather late.  Basically, there were half a dozen really rowdy kids (mostly low-income but also one or two better-off kids) who the Chinese teachers tended to let act up.  Some of the kids struggle to understand these teachers, so they can get wild in class.  The English teachers are stricter, but the discipline from their end can be too little, too late.

We aren't inclined to leave because of the quality of the English instruction, but it's a contributing factor.  We ended up at YY mainly because our IB Hill school doesn't have middle-class families past pres.   We're no longer sure that the schlep to YY is worth it for school that isn't all that rigorous when the admin team isn't very user friendly and Mandarin isn't terribly important to us.   Looking ahead, I don't like how many of the families in 3rd and 4th do seem to be hiring tutors.

Good luck with your decision.  
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