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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We thought we were golden at YY until we moved on to a top DC private for 6th grade. The school made our kid take a remedial English course the summer before enrolling (although he got 5s on the PARCC for ELA) and wasn't impressed with his Chinese either. They interviewed him partially in Mandarin.

We're AA and don't speak Chinese at home. Wish things were different.[/quote]

Assuming you stayed with YY, what do you wish you had done differently? Tutoring? [/quote]

Moved to a 4-bedroom place, large enough to host a Chinese au pair for the entire time we were at YY, and made the 15-18K/yr investment, period.

The private we're at takes Chinese instruction more seriously than YY/DCI, even though it's not technically an immersion program. The kids in advanced classes can really speak and there are more native speakers/competition. It was a shock to the system at first, now we love it (but not the tuition).

Don't get sucked into YY ELA + Mandarin "the cognitive boost is what we value most" La-La land if you're serious about bilingualism.  They're decent on math though, no issues there at the private. [/quote]

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