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No horse in this race at all, but there is a lot of yu ying haters out there, mostly from Rockville. Honestly I think they're bothered that nonchinese kids are speaking Chinese and spend an awful lot of time trashing YY here. Take their advice with a grain of salt. [/quote]

[b]Oh come on, those of us who speak Chinese and have a connection to the Rockville native-speaking community don't hate Yu Ying.  We just can't take a Chinese immersion school without Chinese-speaking admins or students seriously, and aren't very impressed with the results.[/b]

OP, I suggest that you hook up with one of the weekend programs in MoCo for native speakers, e.g. Cantonese School of Greater Washington if your family is from the south.  You get great morale support from these communities to speak Chinese at home, and enjoy holiday celebrations where everybody in the room is either from Chinese immigrant/bilingual family or married into one.

If you want my two cents worth, ignore your kids if they reply in English.  We do that consistently, so they rarely try English on us.   Also, don't let them watch kids entertainment in English. We only allow cartoons from Direct TV channels from China and a big stash of DVDs of classic and current kids' movies dubbed into Chinese (easy to find in NYC Chinatown, on-line, through family members shopping in HK, Taiwan and on the mainland).   We also arrange regular play dates with native-speaking kids, and have them tutored by Chinese graduate students who can teach traditional characters.  Good luck!

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#1 - Charter law does not allow for selection based on language preference.  (This is a good thing, otherwise children who don't speak beautiful and grammatically correct ENGLISH could be sorted out).

#2 - There are over 500 students currently enrolled at Yu Ying.  You do not know a statistically valid sample from which to form an intelligent opinion.

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