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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]  Honestly, demographics have a lot to do with it.  If you have a largely upper-middle class cohort of students, then student-driven learning is terrific.  However, those are children who don't need to have discipline and self-control taught in addition to the curriculum (that they're already a year or two behind their high-performing classmates).

I see it working well at a school like Yu Ying.  [/quote]

I don't see it working all that well at YY, where a sizeable minority of students has been bumped to a non-immersion track, almost all of them AA.  YY doesn't have a largely upper-middle class cohort of students - the student population is split between better-off kids (who don't speak Chinese at home), and poor kids (who don't speak Chinese at home).  IB PYP is really designed for private international schools serving the children of diplomats, aid workers, private sector managers etc.  It just sounds hip for DC public schools where at least half the kids are low to moderate-income.

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Oh for god's sake, get over it!! you harp constantly on this site about the differentiated curriculum model and yet less than 4% of the YY kids are receiving their language instruction this way. These kids still receive the IB PYP; their Chinese is delivered as language instruction rather than immersion. That's not a "sizeable minority". You also have no clue about whom the IB PYP is designed for: 58% of IB schools are public schools!  [/quote]

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