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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think some posters here and many parents really do not understand what immersion is all about - since they seem to think it's no big deal to send a kid with no language experience into a school where his peers would have been participating in an immersion program for years.

I think some seriously think, "oh, no big deal, so they have a Mandarin class - maybe little Johnny can skip that and take something else - or if he does have to take it but isn't good at Mandarin, maybe he'll get a D in that class but everything else will be OK."   Immersion means it's not just one language class.  It means it will be coming up all throughout the schoolday.  It will show up in History class.  Science class.  And so on.  Further, language is a lifelong learning journey.  You don't master Mandarin in a semester.  A student coming in as a newbie to a room full of peers who have been working on it for years will flounder.

He'll be like that kid drowning in the deep end of the pool above.  That parent will be doing their child a huge disservice if they don't understand that.[/quote]

And I think people such as yourself hear things no one is saying.  Who in this thread is minimizing or dismissing the work it takes to help a student who doesn't start at the entry grade get up to speed in proficiency?  Quote please.[/quote]

How would you propose that student catch up on several years worth of proficiency?[/quote]
I think people are describing the rules that YY operates on, which include not admitting new students after 2nd grade.[/quote]

I'm fine with those rules.  Other posters seem insistent on being able to send kids after 2nd.[/quote]

Who are you talking about???  Everyone in this thread either thinks that once entry is cut off at 2nd grade, there should be no more entry until 6th grade when YY/DCI can accomodate a new group of "never spoke Mandarin before" students in DCI.  Because, students from Stokes, Mundo Verde, etc will not know Mandarin and will also be taking it for the first time if they so choose (and many will choose to).  The other group in this thread wants to see any spots that open up through attrition between 2nd and 6th grades to be able to be filled by testing for language proficiency.

Who is it you are seeing saying "let the no Mandarin proficiency" students in after 2nd grade (but before 6th) so they'd be in 3rd grade trying to follow along with students who've been at YY for at least a year?  No one is saying that.  Quote anyone who said anything like that.[/quote]

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