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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At least the scores reinforce our decision to go private by third grade.[/quote]

Scores (statistics) can always reinforce what you want to hear.[/quote]

Yeah, especially poor scores like these.[/quote]

Well, they are not all poor.[/quote]

It's all relative.  Our HRCS scores are not very good and it's actually on the list for top ten.  While that kind of scores are acceptable when DC is in the early grades, it's not acceptable when your kid is approaching upper elementary.  Much as we love the school and school community, just looking at the scores makes leaving much easier.[/quote]

These are my thoughts as well, but we can't afford private.[/quote]

It is all relative, but it makes me feel good, not bad.  Our HRCS is at the bottom of the top 10 charters (hello YY!), and I gotta say, given that the students spend 50% of the school year learning in Mandarin, I'm actually really optimistic.  Of course I want to see the school's scores go up - up a lot - but it actually feels like quite an accomplishment that even with half of the learning time in a language with a different alphabet and so many families that are not speaking Mandarin at home, and the testing grades are still relatively new (isn't YY only 6 yrs old?), the overall score is still 79% proficient.

For that school it makes me hopeful, not want to leave.  I want to stay and keep working as a parent on improving those scores.[/quote]

The scores are from kids who started at YY in preK so we've been waiting for that big "bump up" from previous years where the "excuse" was that the kids started in K, 1st, etc.  Looks like this is about the best the school can achieve and frankly it's a disappointment since we chose YY over private schools for the Mandarin.  Also, getting tired of all the turnover in staff:  Wouldn't be surprise if the coming yrs scores actually fell due to staff turnover.  Compared to other Mandarin immersion schools in other parts of the country, YY's scores in English and Math are not impressive.[/quote]

You chose a public Mandarin school over a private and you're surprised at the result?  *rolls eyes*[/quote]

My kid can read, write and speak Mandarin with perfect tones so it's been worth it (and free  :)   He also reads four grades above grade level in English but he would be doing the same if he went to private school...  But it's still disappointing that the current scores are probably about the best it's going to get.  We were always planning on private for middle school anyway but we may switch a [i]little[/i] sooner.  That's all.  Yu Ying is a great school for what it offers.[/quote]

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