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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

I don't get why OP would change schools either, and it was clear from the 1st post that Chinese itself was not a priority.  That said, since apparently OP doesn't really care about Chinese (and hasn't said otherwise 5 pages in), all the people saying that YY students don't end up speaking Chinese well enough may not really be an issue for OP. I don't believe with those criticisms, but in terms of the decision OP is making, sounds like OP doesn't really care so it's more why leave a place you already know you like?  And no, I'm not in the lottery, very happy with the dual language school our kids are at, so for all who are about to say "you just want OP's spot", I'm not even in the game this year.[/quote]

OP here (yes, still deciding and reading these posts, thank you!). There are a few reasons why I'm considering YY despite loving our current school.  Our current school ends at 6th grade, so the DCI feeder pattern is desirable.  I like that YY is on three wooded acres.  And the test scores are impressive. I have read a lot of positive things about the benefits of dual language.  That said, I love the Montessori school too.  I love the education, as well as the teachers, classmates, and families.  I realize I am deciding between two excellent choices, but the decision is still difficult. [/quote]

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