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[quote=Anonymous]I am an Chinese immigrant with elementary school age kids, never heard of this full Saturday school thing, as far as I know, most of my friends send their kids to weekend Chinese school (including myself) just to keep our kids learning Chinese. the Chinese class usually last two hours with break in between, after Chinese class, there are options of some 50 min sports class, instruments class, dancing class, some kind of  traditional Chinese art class. It really serves as a culture center for us. The Chinese school runs by solely by parents volunteers (maybe very minimal compensate), as parents are all recent immigrants with English as second language, it is very hard for me to imaging they are there to teach kids reading and writing. there is also no need to go there for math because most of them have advanced degree in STEM and can teach kids at home if necessary.

[MCPS as a whole is not that different from the national norm but the highest performers are not equally spread out across the county. Cold Spring and its feeder schools have a disproportionate amount of high performers, You're basically an outlier on the low end of the spectrum there with a 98% and will be receiving intensive catch up services. I'm joking about the last part ..but not that much. It is unbelievable how many K show up reading years above grade level and having math skills equal to 3rd grade level. Many kids are bilingual with correct grammar in both languages. [b]Kids of immigrants go to full day Saturday school in their home language. These schools teach math, language, writing and some science [/b]without diluting them so the kids who are already very smart also get a supplemental classroom education. [/quote][/quote]

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