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[quote=Anonymous]We've got two kids at YY.  For the record, one of us is of Chinese descent, one is not.  Both of us speak some Chinese.

I do agree with the previous poster who mentioned that experience with Chinese by at least one parent (or a pretty darn high and sustained level of interest) is essential.  The kids have homework in Chinese.  For our kids, it takes a LOT of motivation and effort on the part of us to get them to read and make sure they are doing their lessons correctly and not just pretending to.  I don't know how we'd do it if we didn't have a lot of background in the language ourselves.  We long ago decided we would "force" our kids to learn Chinese, even though they'd be happy just speaking English.

There is a good mix of students at YY, no one ethnicity seems to predominate, and there are quite a few mixed kids with at least one parent who is Chinese.  If that's what you're looking for, you'll be happy.

There seems to be high parent involvement.  We're not super involved ourselves, but the volunteer work we've done has always been well attended, and the parent association meeting have had lively discussion.

The school facilities are quite nice and getting better all the time.  The few times we have needed to talk to the principal or administration about something, they have been very responsive.

So we're very happy with the school, at least for our particular situation.  Can't speak for anyone else.

One other thing -- elementary schools tend to run the gamut from "let the kids be kids and learn to bloom and socialize" to academic meat-grinders.  YY tends toward the academic side.  There's homework in even the younger grades, and let's be frank, learning Chinese means a lot more homework and effort on the part of the  students, and parents.  So if that is what you want, YY might be fore you.[/quote]

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