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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can't believe how low standards are around here for monolingual schools. These kids speak and write English no better (and mostly significantly worse) than mine -- who spend half of their schooldays in Chinese classrooms. It's just appalling.

(The point I'm actually making is that it's silly to condemn Yu Ying or other language immersion schools soley because most of their students don't achieve fluency. If those students aren't giving up anything in English, math, or anywhere else, and still are achieving dramatically more proficient foreign language abilities than they would have in monolingual elementary schools, isn't that success? Or at least something better than abject failure?)[/quote]\

As native speakers of Chinese, we can't believe how low standards are at YY for spoken Chinese.  The dozen kids on our block who've spent half their schooldays in Chinese classrooms for 6 or 7 years speak no better than our own children did as 3 year olds.  If you're looking for abject failure, find it at YY for spoken Chinese, the "immersion" program without Chinese-speaking admins where native-speaking DC residents don't bother with their lottery. It's just appalling. It's hard to imagine most of the YY kids running with their Chinese as teens or adults.

You're painting with much too broad a brush. The PTA at our monolingual DCPS pays more than 200K a year to hire teachers aides, partly to beef up writing instruction. My eldest scored a 5 on the ELS PARCC, like most of her friends.  YY's ELA scores don't impress us, considering that our DCPS and YY have comparable FARMs rates.[/quote]

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