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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s just not true that all the families who bail from YuYing weren’t serious about Mandarin. In fact, some of the YY families who hosted Chinese Au pairs for many years left for BASIS or Latin 1. If you were at YY all along with the current 5th grade cohort, you know who I mean.[/quote]

Oh come on.  It’s a well known fact that kids are not going to be fluent or strong in Chinese at YY.  Just because a family has an au pair so kids can do better at YY doesn’t mean they are expecting fluency.  Best is kids may be able to communicate.

Here’s what really happens at YY.  Families choose the school not for Chinese but for test scores.  Most have no interest in fluency in Chinese from the beginning.  They are happy if kids can do some basic communication and write. The Chinese is not the reason they pick’YY.
The majority of these families then move on.

Even if some of these kids go to DCI, they are not the ones going for the IB diploma.  It’s the Spanish track kids.

BTW, every thread on DCI doesn’t need to get taken hostage by the crazy YY mom who keeps on posting.  OP is asking about continuing Spanish at Oyster or DCI and the better choice for that is DCI.[/quote]

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