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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]You don't like YY?  Move on! The WL is very long and a LOT of people are clamoring to get in...[/b] [/quote]

What I find interesting here, as a parent (speaking Russian) who choose Oyster over YY is how threads about other immersion schools, whether DCPS or charer, don't talk about native speakers being alienated the way the YY ones do, not at all.

I went to a YY info night where I was put off partly by how brusquely a couple Chinese-American parents were treated when they asked how many bilingual kids (speaking any of the dialects) were in the school.  The principal bit their heads off, coldly informing them that the school doesn't collect his data.  Completely different story at Oyster, where administrators were not only upfront about roughly how many of the kids speak Spanish at home, they seemed to welcome questions along these lines.  Just see how posters with valid sounding concerns about YY get clobbered on DCUMBD.  The place didn't strike us as terribly welcoming or transparent.  Obviously many other parents disagree, but it's never a bad thing to garner impressions off these threads.  We are making fairly big decisions for our children.

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the YY principal is a head biter who does not consider parents to be an important part of the school (for example, other administrators attend the PA meetings).  Good luck with her.[/quote]
But she's no longer principal--she's moved to a role that involves far less parent contact.[/quote]

To those reading this post: The principal (and she will be the Head of School which means she is still the principal but will also have an assistant principal) is AMAZING. The problem for some people is that she does not crumble before aggressive parents and does not suffer fools gladly. She works tirelessly for the school. The teachers LOVE her and so do most of the parents. IF you want a principal that cares more about kids, curriculum, and classroom focus than on politics, then YY is for you. If you need a principal who cares more about what people think of her than about doing what is right and necessary, go somewhere else.[/quote]

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