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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is true. Also true that many older YY students (and now DCI Chinese track students), can hardly speak Chinese and know little about Chinese culture (they get a Disney version from YY).

These are the main reason that most of us in this city who speak Chinese at home with kids decided to ignore YY some years back.

No point in paying attention.[/quote]

[b]Ignore? Based on this thread, you seem downright obsessed[/b].[/quote]

This.  Bizarre behavior.  Instead of just saying “This school is trash” once and stating why like most “normal” DCUM posters (lol), he comes back to address every. single. positive post.  He says basically slightly different iterations of the same thing.  Yes, obsessed seems fair to say.[/quote]
NP and a YY mom. You seem to be the most obsessed.

What I'm hearing here is that [b]most native speakers could care less what happens at YY these days[/b], different than 4-5 years ago. What I read here mirrors the sense you get at the school. [b]There's been an uptick in the # of kids whose parents speak Chinese enrolling over the years[/b], but a really modest one (1-2 kids per class in early childhood classes an d K).  We haven't been thrilled with Chinese instruction at YY.  We're moving on to a private next year w/a strong (stronger?)all around program.

[b]Give it a rest arleady.[/b]

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PP here.  Not at all obsessed and have only responded a couple times here--I'm just someone who's been watching this thread with incredulity.  I don't think the thread was even geared to native speakers who could not care less about YY, but to people who have kids learning Mandarin as a second language, and what they could expect in terms of fluency/general experience.

Also, I'd point out that your assertion that these days most native speakers could not care less about YY seems in direct contradiction to your observation that there has been a modest uptick in native speaking families over the years at YY.

As for private, good luck.  We recently moved a kid to private from a Deal feeder, and while we're happy, it's not all a bed of roses.[/quote]

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