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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You mean in general, or just where learning Mandarin and about Chinese culture is concerned?  We've lost a bunch of neighbors to MoCo in the course of the last decade over public school quality issues.

It's actually not a bad idea for YY parents to get to open houses at the Rockville Chinese immersion programs (College Gardens and Potomoc for elementary, as well as the MS program at Robert Frost).  If you're open to learning, you can pick up ideas on how to step up your game in a way that's fun for your YY student(s).   Attrition is much lower at those programs, so most of the kids who enter in K are still in immerion classes in 8th grade.

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Hilarious. The MD folks keep coming to YY because it's doing waaaaay more than they are!!!! seriously. I was part of a parent delegation that took them through classrooms and they were awed.[/quote]

This last post made me go check out the MD school forum for threads about Chinese language study there.  All I can say is, much to my surprise, I walk away EVEN MORE GRATEFUL TO BE AT YY!!!  It sounds like the non-native speakers there have a really hard time and get tested OUT of study in upper grades, which sounds awful!  And this this conversation about "if you don't study Chinese in high school, it won't matter that your child is proficient before HS but couldn't take further classes in high school, colleges only really care about kids who took 3-4 years of Chinese IN high school"...  So grateful that the issue of either being placed out of classes or not being able to study hopefully won't be issues with DCI.

Also, SO INTERESTING that a lot of non-native speakers feel left out or excluded because their Mandarin isn't good enough (even with being at these popular MoCo bilingual schools), the teachers talk to the native speakers and Mandarin and the non-native speakers have no idea what's going on.  Right there I read that and was grateful for YY's model.

I was never concerned with what MoCo was doing re: Mandarin instruction - as far as I'm concerned, the more, the merrier.  And it is good to learn from other systems, I would hope YY never feels like they don't have anything else to learn.  But it was really eye-opening to read those threads.  Honestly, it sounds like the whole never-ended assault on Yu Ying for not having a Chinese administration might also be influential Chinese families wanting leverage for entrance that they're not getting through the current Admins who are diligent about running a fair admissions process.  That is NOT to say I don't see the huge advantages to a higher % of native speaking students, but I also believe the random admission process is more important to keep access open (if there are any non-sib spots ever again!).  But the more I read about non-native speaking students in MoCo feeling pushed out or actually being tested out because native speakers of course get better scores, the more the Emperor started to really look nekkid to me![/quote]

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