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[quote=Anonymous]My kid just completed 3rd.

I'd like to see more Asian kids, with Asian parents, for one key reason - they're among the brightest and most disciplined students.  True for English, true for math in both languages.  There's a reason that the student bodies of so many top universities (e.g. Berkeley and UCLA, we're from Cal) are heavily Asian and it's not because these parents and kids lack drive.

I feel like the English instruction at YY works reasonably well as much because so many of the parents are well-educated and on top of things more than because the teachers are.  Too many teachers are young and inexperienced, but they're not lazy or lacking in creativity.  The kids do some fun projects and the emphasis on writing is good. But ongoing discipline problems tend to get swept under the rug.

English at YY is a mixed bag but overall more positive than negative.  If your IB alternatives aren't great, as a parent, you're more likely to make the best of the instruction than not.  We stay mainly because of the Mandarin--we have a Chinese au pair--although our IB option isn't bad.

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