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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP, do you use the Hope school or some other outside source to assist you in Chinese language instruction, or do you do it all yourself? We are interested in YY and don't live near a JKLM or comparable school, but if we don't get a slot, we'd like to know what others like you are doing to teach Mandarin anyway.[/quote]I can't imagine raising a child who speaks both Chinese and English well without being native speakers receiving lots of help from the extended family. We haven't been impressed with the Chinese of the older YY kids we speak Mandarin with, other than those whose families have hosted Chinese au pairs for years. We have headed to the same Rockville Sunday afternoon program (3 Hours) since our kids were 3 years old. All the students are from Immigrant families. Can't beat it. YY Seems pretty cruise by comparison, the emphasis being on inclusion/diversity vs, high standards. Good luck.[/quote]

Interesting that you can't imagine it.  I can't imagine a child who spends all of their PS/PK years learning nothing but Mandarin, then their entire school career from K - 5th grade learning literally half of their classwork in Mandarin NOT learning an astonishing amount.  I don't really know what non-native Chinese parents expect their kids to pass as natives in the way they speak Mandarin, but I do know an entire school-ful of parents who know that their kids will graduate reading, speaking, and understanding a tremendous amount, hopefully on grade-level and beyond, and that in and of itself is amazing.

To say YY has an emphasis on "inclusion and diversity vs. high standards" when it's a public charter school that gets its students through a lottery is the most ridiculous and uninformed comment I've read about YY in ages.  You don't understand a lot of things about the school, it's mission, what it seeks to achieve, or it's population, yet you are passing whole busloads of judgement on it.  I guess in the end all is right in the world, because you don't like it and your kids don't go.  We love it and feel incredibly lucky that our kids do go.  Win-win, good note to end Mother's Day on![/quote]

Wow not a YY parent but also stunned by the sheer racism from Rockville Chinese school Parent. Please consider moving to Rockville full time you disgusting racist pig. Glad you did not get your kids into YY. What bothers you most, that black/white/Hispanic kids are speaking Chinese, or that they're doing so with your tax dollars. YY is excellent and I'm proud to have it in DC. [/quote]

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