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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hate to break it to you, but most of the kids we met at YY 8 or 9 years ago and keep up with now no longer study Chinese as teens.  They're at schools that don't teach appropriately advanced Chinese, or don't teach Chinese at all, like BASIS, the original Latin, private schools or out of the DC area.  Most are not at DCI and if they are at DCI, they're in pre-AP Chinese classes w/out peers who speak good Chinese. If they do study Chinese, they're spoken Mandarin doesn't seem to have advanced much past the YY 5th grade level. We know DC kids who speak good Mandarin, but they're not YY grads. These kids either grew up in the homes of native speakers or attend pricey Chinese immersion camps in the summers, e.g. Concordia in MN ($6,000/month) the DCI crowd doesn't bother with. Knowing all this, I'm no longer convinced that the YY and DCI 1-way immersion model, where kids only learn Chinese from teachers, is the right way to go. If you like YY for other reasons, go for it. You might want to process this info right now, OP.  [/quote]

From best I can tell the average YY parent was more concerned about avoiding their neighborhood DCPS school than raising a Mandarin fluent child. Now if their kid ended up speaking Chinese, that’s a bonus, but it was never the primary reason. [/quote]

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