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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After all this I think OP has probably fully embraced CMI. [/quote]

Doubt it, she sounds like the sort of parent who wants YY for the warm and diverse community, safe environment etc.  A little cultural "exposure" and Mandarin is peachy, too. Why worry that the benefits of immersion study for kids don't kick in unless it's dual immersion and lasts at least 10 years?  The research is out there.

Maybe a 1/4 of the YY families are willing and able to put out, and pay up, for decent conversational Mandarin. These are the families that will have Chinese-speaking 20-somethings.

It is what it is and won't change unless the school hires a native speaking principal (like any serious Chinese immersion program anywhere!). [/quote]

I've heard a lot of things about YY from families there, and "warm community" is not one of them.[/quote]

I am an actual YY parent, and I find the other parents to be very friendly and the kids are great. With 500+ kids, I'm sure there are lots of different experiences.[/quote]

Another YY parent with a kid going into 4th grade and we love it here.  The community is great with a sense of community and very diverse.   No one is forced to stay, you know.   The retention rate speaks for itself and the lottery waitlist a mile long.

Personally, we could care less about getting a "native speaking principal" - We like Maquita, our principal, just fine.

So face it.  Yu Ying isn't going to cater to the peanut gallery even if they are native speakers.[/quote]

So you like the principal. The Chinese teachers, not so much. They make snide remarks about her in their dialects within earshot of school community members. They use choice nicknames for her and the other admins. They point out that the diversity doesn't help the kids speak Chinese, and poke fun at wimpy US ES education, then smile and say the opposite to parents in English. The Cantonese speakers seek out Cantonese-speaking parents (all three of them) to ask many awkward questions, mostly about US education.

This is the different experience you have at YY when the dialect subtext is clear. My main take-away from YY was an appreciation for straight up communication and community openness at both our JKLM and heritage school. Good luck to the YY families.  [/quote]

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