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Reply to " Yu Ying - Do/Can Non-Native Kids Actually SPEAK Chinese?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As others have said, many on this thread are not actually YY families. I am a PP with a kid studying another language at another immersion school with a sizable proportion of native speakers; I've chimed in a few times, as I've been following this thread. My only connection to YY is that a few of my neighbors' kids attend. I still think some of the YY detractors have been mean-spirited in their mocking of current families, saying the kids "speak like toddlers," etc. That is in large part what is creating the backlash--the downright pettiness from several (or one?) of the detractors. Also, some suggestions/opinions re: YY kids' language acquisition skills may indeed be reasonable, but they aren't being taken well because of some PPs' sneering, mocking delivery of this information. [b]Also, if some of you have indeed moved on after leaving YY many, many years ago, and your kids' current schools are working out well, why are you so invested in criticizing YY, to the point of posting at all hours during the workday, etc.? Seems a lot of valuable time spent on a school that should be in your rearview.[/b] [/quote] THIS x 1000. This is the odd thing about this thread and others like it. Whether or not the kids are speaking great Mandarin, WHY DO YOU CARE? Clearly you're here to trash a school for no reason, since your kids don't go there. W.T.F. [/quote] Because it's a public school subsidized by their tax dollars. I also care about Ballou and Dunbar, even though my children don't attend them.[/quote] LOL. You lie like a rug. Have yet to see a DCUM thread on Ballou, or even Eastern. Chinese parents don't seem bent about the Mandarin classes at CMI. [/quote] I'm not Chinese and neither are my children. You realize there are more than 2 people commenting here?[/quote]
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