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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow. My DH is chinese american. We send our kids to YYand are very happy with the progress they are making. Disagree that you need to have a certain # of chinese kids in order to have a successful immersion program.  Immersion programs should be open for all who are interested in learning the language, not those who are already speak chinese.[/quote]

I'm far from convinced.  Visit the playground at Oyster.  You hear as many Spanish conversations taking place as English.  Then visit the YY playground - almost every conversation that doesn't involve a teacher in English.  Not sure what you consider a succesful program, but how could it hurt to have, borrowing language offered by another PP, a critical mass of bilingual kids modeling the language and culture for the others?

Of course you don't want all the kids speaking the language of immersion at a US ES, but I'd wager that 1/3 or 1/2 would work a lot better than whatever YY's doing (a mystery since, as the snippy head likes to point out, no data on the number of bilingual kids being collected!). There are a number of good, recent academic studies on bilingual education from Canada, since the country does so much of it (mainly French-English), proving that English-speaking kids in immersion programs accrue great benefit from having many bilingual peers.[/quote]

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