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[quote=Anonymous]Not the above poster. I can tell you that coming out of DC charter immersion program into a MoCo immersion program was a shock to the system. MoCo hardly seems to care about diversity in these programs - they're all about outputs, about positioning kids with an ear for language acquisition to score high on standardized test down the track (SATs, APs, IB Diploma, whatever). At YY, we were often told that our kid's Chinese was "excellent." Here, he's average and we have to work a lot harder to keep up (eliminating English cartoons for him etc.) Some classmates have two parents who immigrated from the Mainland as adults (unlike us), and really only speak Chinese at home. It's not unusual for kids to attend weekend heritage programs as well at College Gardens. Keeping up is a good challenge for us, but it's very hard work. The program culture is very different than YY's. You want to think hard about how committed you are before jumping in. [/quote]
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