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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's strange because our DC's Chinese teacher last year taught at another US school before moving to Yu Ying. You sure about that?

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Same here, PP.  My DC's Chinese teacher came to YY from MoCo.  I think the complaining PP is "Heritage Mom" who is perpetually angry that her Cantonese-speaking family didn't get language preference - and so she blames the school for it.[/quote]

Oh right, blame one probably fictious parent who's supposedly angry not getting a non-existant language preference for shoddy hiring practices that lead to one lead admin after another not reading or speaking Chinese, let alone as a native speaker.

YY clearly prefers that its teachers to come on one-year visas, rendering them virtually powerless in the hierarchy.  But to some extent, the joke is on the admins.   Ever seen the sentences praising "President" Mao teachers have kids copy down (in characters).  Laugh or cry.  [/quote]

Honey you clearly know NOT of what you speak!  Heritage Mom is as real as they get... she has provided pages and pages of "interesting" reading on almost every thread about YY since she didn't get in the first time.  Also, for those of us who actually have kids there, your version of what's happening with the teachers doesn't match parent experience.  And at the end of the day, anonymous people can complain and criticize all they want on the internet; it doesn't change the reality that, warts and all, YY is a great school and an amazing opportunity for the DC families lucky enough to get in.

Have you ever thought of taking all your vitriol about how things are done there and starting your own Mandarin bilingual school in DC that is run the way you think it should be run?  Having an opinion and criticizing is one thing.  But those who go on and on about the Administration at a school that has actually pulled off a lot come across as bitter, petty and kinda psycho because this is the Administration that has brought this school to where it is today.  Are there still improvements to be made?  Of course.  But choosing between what is clearly working for the most part and ditching the current Administration in the name of hiring someone unknown because they are a native Mandarin speaker is crazy talk.

You don't like how it's run, you don't like who they've hired... go start your own school.  If parents way back when hadn't put in the work and put in place the vision they had, YY wouldn't exist for you to be so bitter about.  You can do it better?  Cool.  There are a lot of DC parents who would love the chance to go to such a school.[/quote]

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