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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, it is not at all common to send kids to China for summer school. I know of a few families who visit there during the summer or during the school year. But I know of none who would take their child for summer school and expect them to do all of the communicating for their parents, especially a kindergartner. Is this a joke? Please tell me this is a joke.[/quote]

Grandparents live in Asia near China so we usually go there anyway.  Grandparents also read and speak Mandarin and holiday in China often so we would be going with them for part of the trip but yes, DC would be attending Mandarin camp for foreigners (kids).  It's common for kids in our country to go to China in the summer to learn Mandarin.

I don't think this is that common at Yu Ying.  [/quote]

We'll be a new YY family this fall (PK4) and we're really hoping that either formally through the Adminitration, or more informally through a YY listserv or parent group, we will get ideas from parents about how they supplement their children's Mandarin.  Neither parent in our household has a clue about Mandarin (although we were very specifically looking for a Mandarin bilingual school and are thrilled we got into YY).  We also are not in a financial or job position to spend a summer anywhere, much less in China, and we don't have family in China, so unless something changes dramatically, something like sending DC to summer school in China is not happening.

Which means, we will be anxious for ideas about supporting her here, ideas about what we can learn and do for ourselves to be better supports as well as what we can help her do.

We also aren't currently in a position to hire a Mandarin-speaking nanny (or any nanny!) so we are a bit worried that so many families who weigh in on DCUM seem to have the financial means to send their kids to Mandarin tutors or hire Mandarin-speaking childcare.  That won't be us unless there are some really affordable tutoring programs.  Hoping other current parents have ideas and that not everyone is operating at such a higher SES level than us![/quote]

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