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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parent of rising first grader (jumbo class). We're getting to a point in my child's YY experience where I worry that my & my husband's lack of Chinese language knowledge is hurting his educational experience. He's supposed to spend 10 minutes a night reading in Chinese. The school provides books at his level, but they just don't interest him. If I knew the language, I could find different books on the topics that interest him. But as things are, I'm not able to help him out.

We came to YY because we're very interested in bilingual education, and it's the only bilingual school where we got a spot. We had an opportunity to leave last fall for another school, and didn't take it. We're still committed to the school, but our role as parents is even harder than I'd expected.[/quote]

Same class.  I'll admit it, the expectation that parents help with Chinese homework bugs me.  I think that's completely unrealistic since most parents knows no Chinese or less than the kids.  We don't do it and so far DC is not behind in Mandarin.  I can see a day when we may have to hire tutors.  DC will be going to China for summer school from next summer onwards although the reason he is not going this year is b/c he is too scared to go:  He knows he'll have to do all the speaking/reading/etc for his mother who knows zero Mandarin.

YY does have Chinese homework help in aftercare and on Saturdays - although I'm not familiar with the Sat. program since it's for 1st grade+.  YY is an awesome school but only if you really want your child to learn Mandarin.[/quote]

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