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If it's that difficult to learn, maybe no children should be learning it, outside of those who are exposed to the culture outside of school. Really, this obsession that if my child doesn't learn "Mandarin" they won't be successful in the 21st century is ridiculous. Only time will tell, but perhaps some of these anxious parents are holding their children back by making them struggle with this difficult language in the early years at the detriment of other core subjects. Do the Finns do this, there children are not even in school?[/quote]

The point of my post was that to teach a language to young kids that is not commonly spoken in the US you need an immersion school.  And that in all likelihood, the kids who can test-in to the higher grades like 3, 4, 5 are native speakers from China not the children of kids whose parents are all gung-ho about their kids knowing Mandarin and supplemented with tutors and what-not.[/quote]

Kids raised with a native speaking nanny develop amazing proficiency if they have that nanny from infancy through younger grades of elementary.  I realize most families don't have such resources but there are PLENTY of families in DC with money and live-in childcare.  I've met many families with Spanish-speaking nannies, a few with Mandarin-speaking nannies, and one with a Dutch nanny (because the mom is Dutch and wants to not be only one speaking Dutch with her kid).  Since we're only talking about a few slots anyway at YY, with the nanny and classes and time in China(which some families do anyway), it's entirely possible that such families could have a child who tests proficient in the upper grades.  [/quote]

So the kid has the proficiency to test-in to 3, 4th, 5th grades which are currently left empty when someone leaves.  Taking such families who are obviously very much vested in having their kid learn Mandarin (as well as native speakers and families like OP whose kid attends another Mandarin immersion school in another city) is a [b]bad thing [/b]because ???  Oh that's right, not fair to kids who DON'T KNOW ANY MANDARIN.... Only in DC  :roll: [/quote]

If you can convince someone to change the law to allow test-in proficiency, the YY community will thank you.[/quote]

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