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I apologize for bringing up an ongoing rivalry. I'm hoping these issues are exaggerated in a forum setting, as they often are.  I'm just weighing all my options to see what works best for my family. Regardless, this thread has been very informative and helpful.

So I have one more question then. I have six month old. Does it make sense to try for him to get into preK, then sibling in his older sister?[/quote]

No.  YY currently takes new students up to second grade.  By the time your 6 month old is old enough and if you get lucky to lottery into prek3 which is the main entering grade at YY, your older child will be too old unless they are entering 2nd grade.  Also, there has to be attrition in the rising 2nd grade for your older child to be accepted.

There is no rivalry.  That only exists in the mind of heritage mom who moved out of DC and lives in Rockville, Maryland.[/quote]

Whenever a PP points out that few YY students speak Chinese well, or that DCI is on track to offer IB Diploma lite, because the program doesn't employ ethnic or Chinese-speaking admins, or attract native-speaking students to raise the bar for the others, a bogey woman heritage mom must be responsible. You meet native-speaking parents in the school community, but for reasons that were never clear to me, they don't speak Chinese consistently to their kids, or require them to answer in Chinese. The open houses alone are enough to turn off native-speakers- check one out. Admin presenters work on the assumption that Chinese isn't taught outside YY.

I point out that YY has many other things to recommend it, lovely building, nice playground, location accessible to much of DC, lots going on etc. But it it's Chinese fluency you're after, as well as advanced math and English, MoCo, heritage schools, home school.

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