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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree.  We plan on leaving after 2/3rd.  Simply don't know how the education will be in the later grades and not willing to risk it.[/quote]

That's funny, we've heard very flattering things about the 1st grade English teachers!  I have time to wait and watch this unroll.  I think it's very encouraging that all of the teachers and even some former teachers decided to come back for this year.  That means that not only does the school have confidence in them, but they have confidence in the school.

We'll supplement with study abroad or trips abroad or a Chinese exchange student or something.  I'm not worried.  There are bilingual schools all over the world that do an excellent job with math and science instruction.  That's why there are so many foreign students in the engineering and science programs of our best universities.  [b]Non-native students appear to better at the hard sciences than Americans.  Maybe it's the second language.[/b][/quote]

Not the second language.  I have nieces and nephews who attend school in an Asian country and their math curriculum is MUCH more rigorous and more is expected of them in subjects like math and science at all grade levels.  Sorry to say other than magnet schools like TJ, Stuy, Bronx Sci, etc. public school math and science education generally is terrible in the U.S..  Also, note that at the schools I mentioned, the majority of students are Asian.  Generally, Asian parents also expect more/better in math and science.[/quote]

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