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[quote=Anonymous]LOL yourself.  If only it were funny that Yu Ying's student population includes but a handful of Chinese-speaking kids.  Our son has been there since K and we're pulling out after 2nd grade, next summer, for our neighborhood school in Ward 5.  You've attacked this mom with gusto although she made logical points privately echoed by more than a few Yu Ying parents.  Our kid seems to speak only English to his peers at the school, unlike the children of friends who attend Oyster.  There, droves of Spanish-speaking kids coach and gently correct the English speakers and vice versa.  Moreover, as a general rule, the kids in his class tend to have a hard time understanding their Chinese teachers, making for a chaotic classroom environment too much of the time.  We're concerned that neither his English nor his Chinese skills are what they should be, and that, yes, aspects of the cultural experience the school provides seemed more than a little canned.  I've attended school events and wondered where the Chinese parents were myself.  I, and some of the other Yu Ying parents I talk to, would love if it the school ran two lotteries, as the mom suggests, to draw in far more bilingual kids, and their parents.  We wouldn't necessarily care how the kids learned Chinese (from a Chinese nanny?  from living in Beijing as expatriates?), but would be thrilled if as many as half the kids in his class were bilingual.  She's right that it's PC goofiness for families with no connection to China to have the same chance of enrolling their kids as families with strong ties.  If some of you would be threatened by the presence of more Chinese speakers on the parents association and in the classroom, please deal with it rather than taking pot shots at a mom who provides a coherent description of bona fide problems at Yu Ying.  She may only have secondhand knowledge of the issues, and gets details wrong, but she's on the money.   If I didn't think that the school could do a lot better for what it's spending per pupil, I'd stay.

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