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[quote=Anonymous]The reason you would come to Yu Ying is for the Chinese immersion. If you're happy where you are, and have no interest in Chinese immersion, I don't see why you would make the change.

If you got into YY, do you have other options? You must have gotten a good lottery number and would likely get in elsewhere as slots shift, or was YY your top choice?

As for the support and the support you would need to provide, YY is a very warm environment in my experience. However, in talking to another parent who is new to PK4 this year, their child was having some difficulty with some of the other students picking on them. On the other hand, I noticed when we started with our older child, within a week, it seemed all the other students in the school knew the names of all the new PK kids.

As for supporting your child's studies, we don't do a lot to support their Chinese language learning. We don't have an au pair, tutor, babysitter or anything and they seem to be picking things up well. We'll sometimes show them Youtube videos or get CD's from the library with music.

Do I expect our kids to be at Chinese school equivalent grade level with their Chinese? No. I do expect that at the end of their time at YY that they have a fairly strong foundation in formal school taught Chinese. Yes. They are alternating between Chinese and English every other day, so of course they are not going to be perfectly fluent, but they will, and do, speak a lot more than likely anyone with a year of college level Chinese. So they seem to be doing fine without any supplemental instruction or assistance from parents.

YY is a very good school for elementary education even without the Chinese so I can see how it would be attractive even if you have no interest in Chinese, but I just can't see why you would want to send your child to a school that does alternate every other day between Chinese and English if you have no interest in them learning the language.[/quote]

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