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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Chinese at DCI deserves to be on life support. The academics at both YY and DCI are lackluster, including the Mandarin. When most of the parents jump on board YY more for a school with an at-risk participation in the single digits than for the language immersion, what can we expect 8-12 years later at DCI?  Great results and many kids still on board?  Obviously not.[/quote]

If YY gets the two middle school feeds, Latin Cooper will accrue the benefit.  Sounds like win-win.[/quote]

Its not fair to kids NOT in the YY feeder to get a shot at Latin.  Why should kids get a select few slots into YY, then slide into Latin if they were never serious about chinese to begin with.[/quote]

Because the arrangement would be great for both YY and Latin, co-located on the same campus in the future.  No need for the DCPCSB to cut off its nose to spite its face on this one. DC hasn't been serious about Chinese to begin with. Parents can't be blamed.  YY's leadership asked the city for a preference for native speakers way back in 2009. They were denied. With hardly any native speakers, Chinese at YY can't work well. [/quote]
[b]This is nonsense. The whole reason YY requested a charter for DCI was for kids to continue their Chinese studies. They can’t suddenly pivot and say we don’t care about Chinese[/b]. [/quote]

The reality is that's what at least half of them already do.  They leave for BASIS or the Latins after 4th grade or other middle schools not teaching partial immersion Chinese.  [/quote]

As a YY parent with a 10th grader and 7th grader at DCI, and a 5th grader at YY, you are fully full of BS to say "at least half of YY students leave for BASIS or Latin in 5th grade".  WAY MORE THAN HALF of YY's graduating 5th graders go on to DCI.

YES, some families absolutely leave YY for BASIS and Latin, but WAY more than half actually go on to DCI for 6th grade.

Post your data and sources on this supposed mass migration away from DCI, or since you can't because it's not true, take your lies somewhere else.

Also, it's astonishing how long this BS narrative about "Chinese not working at YY" or the lack of a significant # of native speaking students means the rest of the students aren't learning Mandarin. YY has worked it's institutional butt off to have native speaking TEACHERS and guess what? When you spend 100% of PK3 & PK4 class time learning in Mandarin from native speakers, and then you spend 50% of class time in all subjects learning and speaking, reading and writing in Mandarin from K-5, YOU LEARN MANDARIN. Is it perfect, are you fluent, and can you speak, read and write equally well? Usually NO.  But you do speak, understand, and usually read and write it, and most YY parents (including the ones with no outside Mandarin supports for their kids) hear over and over from native Mandarin speakers who have nothing to do with YY that their kid's Mandarin is very good if not excellent.

DCI only exists because of YY founders starting the conversation to develop a MS and HS language-focused pathway in DC for kids, including Mandarin.  Arguments for YY parents not caring about Mandarin or Mandarin being canceled from DCI are ridiculous.[/quote]

Give it up. These issues have been thrashed out in countless other DCUM threads over the years.

Dig a little. Find out how the DCI seniors who have been taking "advanced" Chinese have scored on their IB Chinese exams from Geneva HQ. I've tutored several DCI students prepare for the speaking component of the exams. These kids earned top grades in the most advanced Mandarin offered at DCI. I've encouraged their parents to send the kids to immersion Mandarin sleepaway summer camps but they've always had other plans. Several of these teens took IBD Chinese exams last June. How did they score? Dismally. On a bright note, I'm told that two of them scored high on AP Chinese, where little speaking is required.

Magical thinking only gets you so far with IBD language exams. Maybe you need a wake-up call at the bitter end to get it. [/quote]

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