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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What you're describing is the same story with the YY leadership since the get go.  We aren't continuing on to DCI because we've had more than enough.[/quote]

+1. This is why we wouldn't send our kid to DCI. In retrospect, we wish we had bailed on YY sooner. [/quote]

Same here.  Our kid always earned top grades across the board at YY.  When we switched to a private in the upper grades where we were told that the kid's Chinese wasn't too hot for a child who'd been in 50% immersion for years, he needed remedial ELA, and his math barely cut it.  He's caught up by now, but getting there was work, money and time we weren't planning to spend.  [/quote]

Same here. Grades were good, but then in middle school (we opted against DCI), we were seeing that ELA was abysmal (still catching up). Math was fine because we did tutoring. However, now kid is in advanced math with the proper teaching, and no longer needs tutoring. We feel cheated because we expected fluency in Chinese, and DC's 5th grade class ranges from barely speaking any Chinese to speaking some Chinese. The idea of bilingualism is a joke at YY. We gave up so much and didn't get the level of Chinese we were promised.

Once people found out we were going to DCI, parents came out of the woodwork to discuss their concerns with YY and DCI. Some others had similar experiences to what you're describing after going to privates, Latin, Basis, and Deal. Then of course there are the boosters who got angry when we opted against DCI. One of them even texted me disparaging the school path we chose and crying about how we won't have bilingualism. I resisted telling her her kids won't get bilingualism either from YY and DCI. Parents can get very upset when you don't want the schools they chose for their own kids. Many of them don't have better options or don't want to give up commute etc. so they can get pretty nasty if you choose differently. [/quote]

What we couldn't take about YY was the lack of transparency in the way the school was run and outcomes.  DCI seemed like more of the same. Weak test scores in ELA were excused by the immersion construct, when the immersion was half baked.  There was no forum for parents to raise the issues, or lobby for change.  The PA was just an ATM machine without power.  If you spoke up to politely challenge with teachers, admins, the YY board or the DCPCS board, you were told that the school wasn't a good fit for your family.  We've kept up with Chinese on weekends at a heritage language school in the burbs that rocks -  high standards, better teaching, bilingual classmates  We will plan to send him to Mandarin immersion camps (e.g. Concordia and in China) when he's older, once that's possible again after Covid dies down.  I don't feel like we've lost anything but some money by jumping off the DCI path. [/quote]

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