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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]  I'm skeptical partly because YY has a chip on its shoulder.  [/quote]

*Yup, a chip.  On that last thread, I heard Chinese trying to explain where they were coming from, with non-Chinese dismissing their concerns and experiences, although a few sounded open.  I didn't hear parents of bilingual children cheering for the school, like Sp  speakers did for theirs.  I heard non-Chinese claiming that Chinese love YY, or that ethnic bilingualism is irrelevant.

*Maybe we should keep what these immersion charters are doing in perspective.  We're talking about 2.5 days a week of language instruction when kids spend more than half their waking time out of school.

*Unless the language of immersion is spoken at home, with a firm committment on the part of adults to teaching it, maybe involving successive language-speaking au pairs (little of this w/the YY crowd), immersion ES instruction only gets a kid so far.

*We're going to see how DCI plays out, but the lack of immersion instruction there is a letdown.  When we signed up for YY, we were told that the immersion would run through MS.

*We're left wondering if we might be better off at Deal, Latin, or a private.

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