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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Boiled down for the case of Yu Ying:  Because you now don't have a chance to spend as much time (but still substantial time) learning to read and write in Chinese, you are in a structure that will hold you back?[/quote]

Yes.  Putting all of the students who are struggling in one classroom is tracking and this is a structure that will create inequality.  The gap between those doing the full immersion and those doing less than will grow with each passing moment.  And, that gap that is created at the young age of 8 years old sets them on a downward trajectory.  It is nearly impossible to catch up once you've been labeled and placed in the lower track. [b]Why doesn't that makes sense to you, I just don't know.   [/b] [/quote]

Perhaps because you clearly don't know what you are talking about, and appear intent on demonstrating exactly that, over and over?  The whole point of the separate class is to IMPROVE English/reading skills by eliminating a perceived impediment (Chinese immersion).  So the Chinese language knowledge might suffer, but English/reading will improve.  I hardly think that improving English skills, at the expense of Chinese, will set these students on a downward trajectory from which they'll never recover and doom them to a life of poverty, crime and underachieving.  (And if it does, my kids are screwed, because they don't know a lick of Chinese.  Bummer.) [/quote]
Or put it another way: do you think kids in full-immersion classrooms at YY are suffering because they learn less English than those who are in non-immersion track? Racism! They will be doomed to a lifetime of poor spelling, poor reading and jail. [/quote]

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