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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whoah, weaknesses in Mandarin are not "easily correctible" at any age (says the musically talented ABC who speaks two dialects and reads OK, after attending heritage schools on Fri nights from K-12). I even spent a college year at a Chinese univ in a full immersion program without emerging as fluent in either dialect. In our experience, YY only gives good or excellent grades in speaking. Admins know that, with only a handful of true native-speaking kids in the school, speaking Mandarin is tied to SES: money for Chinese au pairs (native speakers without local grandparents often host them), tutors and immersion summer camps, preferably in China. Admins tell the Chinese teachers that it's unfair to grade kids down for speaking/listening ability, so they don't.  [/quote]

Whatever...  I am the pp with the kid who is a rising fourth grader at YY.  We are happy with the Mandarin taught at YY.  I am a native speaker of another language and learned English after immigrating here.   If my kid wants to improve his Mandarin, he can always go live and work in China like I did when I came to the USA and at least in his case, he'll have some background in Mandarin unlike me.

If DS did not attend YY,  his knowledge of Mandarin will be zero.  We chose YY over a highly regarded monolingual private school for elementary school and will do it again.  DS will be going to private school for middle and high school in NYC.

So don't send your kid to YY if you think the Mandarin is inadequate.  There are plenty of people who think otherwise and hope for luck in the lottery.  Your complaints frankly sounds like sour grapes that dialect speakers are not given preference in admissions.[/quote]

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