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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]how do the test scores compare for YY and the moco immersion, is there a chinese test score that can be compared?[/quote]

I have no idea of the answer to this, but from reading in the MD forum, I'd say that families where no one in the home is a native Mandarin speaker would ONLY want to be at YY, because it sounds like a) the upper grade instruction options are limited in MD, b) the instruction models leave many non-native speaking students left out (i.e. I'm guessing it's not an immersion at PS/PK, then 50/50 model.  It sounds like classes, so at most a couple hours a day as opposed to all day every other day); and c) at the higher levels the native speakers ace the tests and the non-native speakers by and large don't look so good in the tests and are actually put out of the program, which sounds just awful!

So if its' true - and I don't know that it is, it just seems that way from what I read over there - the test scores may be better in MD because it's a much MUCH higher % of native speakers taking the tests, but it doesn't mean that a non-native speaker learning in MD would test better than YY students.

I actually think it would be great to have real, actual test comparisons.  Maybe they should have a test class of MoCo, FFX, and YY students take the same test at the same grade and see how everyone performs (needless to say it should be written and oral).  I'm assuming that's never been done?[/quote]

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