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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you OP, if you are still out there, for a board reminding me to be thankful for LAMB!!  I honestly don't know how we get a bumper crop of native speakers in year after year, but thank heavens we do.  From these posts, you wonder why most YY parents bother with Mandarin immersion when they sound like the last people to appreciate the Chinese.  Those inbound schools must really suck.

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As a hopeful YY parent (who is realistic about the rotten odds), I am totally sick of all this "Oh, the IB schools must be really awful".  We spoke a lot to the parents who we waited in line with for HOURS about our various reasons for being interested in YY and in Mandarin, and despite the many families with no family or cultural ties to China or Mandarin, these parents were pretty much universal in specifically choosing Mandarin and YY for their child.

Of COURSE there will be parents just shooting for the best charter they can get into because, yes, their IB school sucks.  But to paint all the parents or even a majority of the parents with that brush is ridiculous.  There are a LOT of parents making an educated decision, and this is one of the choices they're going for, not just a "what the heck, if that's the best I can do I'll do it" attitude.

If the school isn't for you, cool, actually super cool (one less family we're competing with for a spot!  :twisted: )  but there are a lot of assumptions beyond simply asking good questions that are getting really really old.

By the way OP, I think you initiated a great conversation that I'm grateful for, as there are aspects of the Cantonese vs. Mandarin discussion I had no idea about and will now look into further.  And I respect any and all who have real reasons for applying or not applying.  Beyond that though, enough already with the assumptions about who is applying![/quote]

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