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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You know these two slights can't be true simultaneously, right? (For the curious, the second one is much closer to the mark.) [quote=Anonymous]No, the YY ELA PARCC scores aren't good, not for the demographic.[/quote] [quote=Anonymous]The elephant in the room is that they can't afford homes in Upper NW, or the Brent or Maury Districts.[/quote] [/quote] Not the PP who wrote this, but they actually can be true. Plenty of white, highly educated parents whose kids should be doing well on PARCC regardless, who are living outside the zones for those schools because they work in the public or nonprofit sector. [/quote] meh, some of both. There are plenty of YY parents who own million-dollar homes in Brookland, Crestwood, Capitol Hill, and elsewhere. I own a home in upper NW that I rent out. I know YY kids who are zoned for Brent, Lafayette, Janney, Ludlow Taylor, Key and Hyde off the top of my head. Some parents are choosing to buy in 16th Street heights, Shepard Park or Takoma to be closer to DCI. We like that there are an interesting mix of professional families--plenty of lawyers and IT folks but also teachers, non-profits, government employees and other do-gooders. Lots of racial and religious diversity that we might not see in all the JKLM schools. We are not worried about our children's English skills, though they are still too young for PARCC. YMMV.[/quote] Come on, there are one or two longtime YY families from each JKLM district, and one or two from Brent. As a former YY parent whose first language is Mandarin, I can tell you that these kids don't really speak Chinese. The diversity at YY is terrific, not the Chinese, or the math or ELA instruction. The PA isn't that great either, because people have trouble commuting to meetings. To speak good Chinese, you need to spend a lot of time around people who speak it and who speak it to you, not just teachers and tutors. My college roommate who isn't a native speaker grew up in San Fran Chinatown. His Chinese is a lot better than that of most of my ABC friends. OP's question was do non native YY kids actually speak Chinese. Answer, not really unless the families have hosted Chinese speaking au pairs for many years, and insisted that the kids not answer the au pairs in English. There are only a dozen YY families in that category. [/quote] I was responding to the person who claimed YY families couldn't afford to live in JKLM. We are aware of your family story because you have shared it at least 25 times on this forum.[/quote] Let me revise the claim. Hardly any YY families can afford to live in JKLM or Brent.[/quote] Okay. Makes me wonder how many years ago you had kids at YY because you are pretty out of touch. Makes sense since your kids have taken multiple PARCC tests. Glad they're doing well and you are happy.[/quote]
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