Anonymous
Post 08/05/2014 17:34     Subject: Who do I write to to advocate that Yu Ying join the common lottery?
Yu Ying had 5 spaces for Prek3 and 9 spaces for PreK4 this year for the lottery.

They had no spaces in grades K, 1st, and 2nd so it was only the waitlist for people who applied to these grades.

Not sure if being in the common lottery will make any difference for future yrs other than getting rid of the waitlist by timestamp which will become completely random like other HRCS.
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2014 17:30     Subject: Re:Who do I write to to advocate that Yu Ying join the common lottery?
Anonymous wrote:OP, sorry that that these wankers have mangled your innocuous thread.

PS. Hope you've learned to avoid advocating a thing where YY is concerned.


Meh, OPs original assumption that the common lottery ranking takes care of YY's concern about getting parents serious about Chinese isn't really true. Common lottery computer only looks at your random assigned lottery number for the most part, not how you ranked the school until it gets to you. Parents who would rank YY #1 but got a random lottery number of 480 would NOT get in ahead of someone who ranked YY #7 but had a 200 random number, unless 200 got to one of their higher ranked choices, which might or might not happen.

We plan to apply next year and we hope they keep a separate lottery.
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2014 17:21     Subject: Re:Who do I write to to advocate that Yu Ying join the common lottery?
OP, sorry that that these wankers have mangled your innocuous thread.

PS. Hope you've learned to avoid advocating a thing where YY is concerned.
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2014 16:46     Subject: Re:Who do I write to to advocate that Yu Ying join the common lottery?
Anonymous wrote:^ Feeling defensive by any chance? Liking the look of West MoCo and NoVa middle and high schools? Worried about high SES kids peeling off between YY and DCI?



I'm a high SES YY parent. YY is the only public school we applied to. We are fortunate to have many choices, including living in Moco or Fairfax etc. We chose YY and are now incredibly excited for DCI. So, to answer your question, no, quite the opposite: we have considered all of the metro DC area options, and are very excited to have landed at YY.

Anonymous
Post 08/05/2014 16:43     Subject: Re:Who do I write to to advocate that Yu Ying join the common lottery?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:^ Feeling defensive by any chance? Liking the look of West MoCo and NoVa middle and high schools? Worried about high SES kids peeling off between YY and DCI?



Your interest in not only the running of YY but the feelings of its parents is weird.


Weird is an understatement. It's downright creepy.
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2014 16:40     Subject: Re:Who do I write to to advocate that Yu Ying join the common lottery?
Anonymous wrote:^ Feeling defensive by any chance? Liking the look of West MoCo and NoVa middle and high schools? Worried about high SES kids peeling off between YY and DCI?



Your interest in not only the running of YY but the feelings of its parents is weird.
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2014 16:39     Subject: Re:Who do I write to to advocate that Yu Ying join the common lottery?
Anonymous wrote:^ Feeling defensive by any chance? Liking the look of West MoCo and NoVa middle and high schools? Worried about high SES kids peeling off between YY and DCI?



Are u a YY parent? If not, why do you care?
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2014 16:35     Subject: Re:Who do I write to to advocate that Yu Ying join the common lottery?
^ Feeling defensive by any chance? Liking the look of West MoCo and NoVa middle and high schools? Worried about high SES kids peeling off between YY and DCI?

Anonymous
Post 08/05/2014 16:32     Subject: Re:Who do I write to to advocate that Yu Ying join the common lottery?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What's so interesting about these threads is that while some may be raising concerns truly because they just care about the quality of DC education, it's so incredibly obvious that those who commit time over and over again to slamming these specific aspects of a school like Yu Ying are doing so because they have something to prove, some personal "wrong" that they are trying to "right".

Because sane, level-headed people who truly don't have a dog in the fight understand the difference between arguing about best practice and what is preferable, and how that can be achieved under the current rules, or they talk about how to change the rules. They do not return to the same complaints thread after thread after thread and keep trying to "will into reality" rules or priorities that are either not available or not preferable to those most directly affected (the staff and families at the school).

It's not apples or organges; it's pure sour grapes. And it is so odd.


What it comes down to is that some Chinese people want an edge in admissions since the language taught is Mandarin. They feel it's an entitlement.


That is really what this whole conversation about changing Principals and not recruiting native language speakers boils down to. People who want in but couldn't get in and will raise every point they can, every opportunity they can, to try to discredit the school. The school they are so pissed their kids don't attend. Crazy.


It's telling that most if not all of the criticisms of YY comes from people who do NOT send their kids there.

Maybe if they were more involved at the school that their kid actually attends, they wouldn't have so much time to critique a school that they have nothing to do with.


Yes, this. I find many threads on other schools interesting, but I would never in a million years waste my time huffing and puffing over choices another school makes if my kids don't attend and will likely never attend. Who has that kind of time? Several people, apparently.
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2014 16:26     Subject: Re:Who do I write to to advocate that Yu Ying join the common lottery?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:

It's telling that most if not all of the criticisms of YY comes from people who do NOT send their kids there.

Maybe if they were more involved at the school that their kid actually attends, they wouldn't have so much time to critique a school that they have nothing to do with.


Are you sure?


DP, but for those of us who've been reading these threads forever, it's clear that most critics are not speaking from an actual YY parent perspective. Just like today, there are usually so many inaccuracies and mis-statements, it's clear people are going on 3rd hand knowledge or what they imagine to be true, not on what happens day to day.

That's not to say parents currently in the school don't have opinions about the Administration or admissions - there have been those opinions raised on DCUM too. But the most vocal critical posters today, yes we're sure they aren't parents. It's cool if you don't believe that. But usually it's more than obvious.
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2014 16:22     Subject: Re:Who do I write to to advocate that Yu Ying join the common lottery?
There are plenty of critics on this thread who gladly identify as non-YY parents, yes.
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2014 16:22     Subject: Re:Who do I write to to advocate that Yu Ying join the common lottery?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:

It's telling that most if not all of the criticisms of YY comes from people who do NOT send their kids there.

Maybe if they were more involved at the school that their kid actually attends, they wouldn't have so much time to critique a school that they have nothing to do with.


Are you sure?
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2014 16:22     Subject: Re:Who do I write to to advocate that Yu Ying join the common lottery?
Anonymous wrote:I'm reluctant to believe that the kids you mention speak Chinese well. We used to believe such claims, until we got into the habit ot trying to talk to YY kids being called native speakers (we speak several major dialects between us). Since YY doesn't test Chinese-speaking kids for fluency or placement, and very few of the parents speak any dialect of Chinese, the claim is all too easy to make.


And the fact that you don't believe it matters to the rest of us... why?
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2014 16:20     Subject: Re:Who do I write to to advocate that Yu Ying join the common lottery?
Anonymous wrote:

It's telling that most if not all of the criticisms of YY comes from people who do NOT send their kids there.

Maybe if they were more involved at the school that their kid actually attends, they wouldn't have so much time to critique a school that they have nothing to do with.


Are you sure?
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2014 16:13     Subject: Re:Who do I write to to advocate that Yu Ying join the common lottery?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What's so interesting about these threads is that while some may be raising concerns truly because they just care about the quality of DC education, it's so incredibly obvious that those who commit time over and over again to slamming these specific aspects of a school like Yu Ying are doing so because they have something to prove, some personal "wrong" that they are trying to "right".

Because sane, level-headed people who truly don't have a dog in the fight understand the difference between arguing about best practice and what is preferable, and how that can be achieved under the current rules, or they talk about how to change the rules. They do not return to the same complaints thread after thread after thread and keep trying to "will into reality" rules or priorities that are either not available or not preferable to those most directly affected (the staff and families at the school).

It's not apples or organges; it's pure sour grapes. And it is so odd.


What it comes down to is that some Chinese people want an edge in admissions since the language taught is Mandarin. They feel it's an entitlement.


That is really what this whole conversation about changing Principals and not recruiting native language speakers boils down to. People who want in but couldn't get in and will raise every point they can, every opportunity they can, to try to discredit the school. The school they are so pissed their kids don't attend. Crazy.


It's telling that most if not all of the criticisms of YY comes from people who do NOT send their kids there.

Maybe if they were more involved at the school that their kid actually attends, they wouldn't have so much time to critique a school that they have nothing to do with.