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[quote=Anonymous][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]
Did you read the last message on this board before you posted?  Yu Ying (probably) would love to have the selective admission option that Oyster has, but it doesn't.  Bummer, but you should be slamming the City Council, not the school.[/quote]

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