Anonymous
Post 02/02/2021 09:15     Subject: Re:Anyone pulling their kid from YY for this hybrid fiasco
Anonymous wrote:Parents were asked to complete multiple surveys to indicate whether their family preferred DL or hybrid so that the school knew how many students to account for. There was at least one, if not two, later occasions where the school told parents they could change their preference by a certain date (as I recall the deadline was late December) because the cohorts were being finalized. They specifically pointed out that it would be easier to change from hybrid to DL than it would be to change from DL to hybrid (which makes sense).

I'm not casting blame on the parents who are upset, nor am I suggesting that YY has handled everything perfectly this last year. I am just pointing out additional facts that haven't been mentioned yet.



Not YY family but they asked and if families who wanted hybrid got it, then I don’t understand why everyone is upset.

I mean it’s logical that with this change there might be some re-arrangement of teachers.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2021 09:02     Subject: Re:Anyone pulling their kid from YY for this hybrid fiasco
Parents were asked to complete multiple surveys to indicate whether their family preferred DL or hybrid so that the school knew how many students to account for. There was at least one, if not two, later occasions where the school told parents they could change their preference by a certain date (as I recall the deadline was late December) because the cohorts were being finalized. They specifically pointed out that it would be easier to change from hybrid to DL than it would be to change from DL to hybrid (which makes sense).

I'm not casting blame on the parents who are upset, nor am I suggesting that YY has handled everything perfectly this last year. I am just pointing out additional facts that haven't been mentioned yet.

Anonymous
Post 02/02/2021 08:28     Subject: Re:Anyone pulling their kid from YY for this hybrid fiasco
Anonymous wrote:This has zero effect on how YY has rolled out their DL/ hybrid model. We have a child at this school and have had no complaints. In fact, we have commented on the amount of communication from our teachers and the administration.


If half the parents didn't know in October that they were opting out of hybrid for the whole year, communication is not good.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2021 08:27     Subject: Re:Anyone pulling their kid from YY for this hybrid fiasco
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The head of school's inability to speak Chinese and connect with the Chinese community has made DL so much more difficult than it would have been otherwise.


I am so surprised the head of a bilingual education school does not speak both languages.
You must be brand new YY threads,PP. The Mandarin is really just to scare poor minority kids away. It works great, all most of the parents really care about. The like the head, don’t give a hoot that her Mandarin is atrocious, or that nothing comes home to families in Chinese. That’s been true all along and some bilingual families have left over the issue. Not every Chinese speaking family that has tried YY could cope with 100% English communication.


MoCo immersion schools do not have dual language principals. YY has a hard enough time getting teachers. The point of these programs is to immerse native english speakers in a foreign language. The vast majority of YY parents are happy for what it is.
What is your basis for making this claim? A survey result you can share. This YY patent isn’t buying it. Many of us would like to see the head move on for many reasons. We’d also like to see the school improve on many levels. We have not been impressed with upper grades DL at YY.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2021 08:26     Subject: Re:Anyone pulling their kid from YY for this hybrid fiasco
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The head of school's inability to speak Chinese and connect with the Chinese community has made DL so much more difficult than it would have been otherwise.


I am so surprised the head of a bilingual education school does not speak both languages.
You must be brand new YY threads,PP. The Mandarin is really just to scare poor minority kids away. It works great, all most of the parents really care about. The like the head, don’t give a hoot that her Mandarin is atrocious, or that nothing comes home to families in Chinese. That’s been true all along and some bilingual families have left over the issue. Not every Chinese speaking family that has tried YY could cope with 100% English communication.


YY threads always devolve into the samesamesame discussion of how the school never reaches out to the community and the Chinese is terrible. Nothing actually useful ever comes of posting about YY.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2021 08:23     Subject: Re:Anyone pulling their kid from YY for this hybrid fiasco
Anonymous wrote:This has zero effect on how YY has rolled out their DL/ hybrid model. We have a child at this school and have had no complaints. In fact, we have commented on the amount of communication from our teachers and the administration.


Was your child selected for hybrid?
It seems like the only happy parents are the ones with kids going to hybrid.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2021 08:19     Subject: Re:Anyone pulling their kid from YY for this hybrid fiasco
Anonymous wrote:Why not supplement OP? Outschool, talkboxmom, library books. So much good, fun curricula and subscriotion boxes out there. Let the school do whatbthey can, you do what you can. Its just a year.


With distance learning I've been supplementing so much it feels like homeschool. I didn't have any problem with their communications before, however, this hybrid rollout that excludes many students based on a survey in October seems chaotic. Fine, my kid doesn't get to do hybrid this time, but I'm also concerned that the distance learning, which was already weak, will be even worse.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2021 08:16     Subject: Re:Anyone pulling their kid from YY for this hybrid fiasco
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The head of school's inability to speak Chinese and connect with the Chinese community has made DL so much more difficult than it would have been otherwise.


I am so surprised the head of a bilingual education school does not speak both languages.
You must be brand new YY threads,PP. The Mandarin is really just to scare poor minority kids away. It works great, all most of the parents really care about. The like the head, don’t give a hoot that her Mandarin is atrocious, or that nothing comes home to families in Chinese. That’s been true all along and some bilingual families have left over the issue. Not every Chinese speaking family that has tried YY could cope with 100% English communication.


MoCo immersion schools do not have dual language principals. YY has a hard enough time getting teachers. The point of these programs is to immerse native english speakers in a foreign language. The vast majority of YY parents are happy for what it is.
MoCo language immersion programs always have bilingual admins. The admins for Chinese speak good Mandarin, Cantonese and English. Their immersion programs are almost always school within a school. Many qualified American Born Chinese have the skill set. Yu could hire one. PS One-way language immersion is a poor substitute for dual. Not best practices by a long shot.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2021 08:10     Subject: Re:Anyone pulling their kid from YY for this hybrid fiasco
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The head of school's inability to speak Chinese and connect with the Chinese community has made DL so much more difficult than it would have been otherwise.


I am so surprised the head of a bilingual education school does not speak both languages.
You must be brand new YY threads,PP. The Mandarin is really just to scare poor minority kids away. It works great, all most of the parents really care about. The like the head, don’t give a hoot that her Mandarin is atrocious, or that nothing comes home to families in Chinese. That’s been true all along and some bilingual families have left over the issue. Not every Chinese speaking family that has tried YY could cope with 100% English communication.


MoCo immersion schools do not have dual language principals. YY has a hard enough time getting teachers. The point of these programs is to immerse native english speakers in a foreign language. The vast majority of YY parents are happy for what it is.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2021 08:01     Subject: Re:Anyone pulling their kid from YY for this hybrid fiasco
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The head of school's inability to speak Chinese and connect with the Chinese community has made DL so much more difficult than it would have been otherwise.


I am so surprised the head of a bilingual education school does not speak both languages.


The ED of LAMB does not speak Spanish. And the school fired its bilingual principal after only a few months (and after the position had been vacant for over a year). No replacement yet. So, this issue is not unique to YY.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2021 07:39     Subject: Re:Anyone pulling their kid from YY for this hybrid fiasco
Why not supplement OP? Outschool, talkboxmom, library books. So much good, fun curricula and subscriotion boxes out there. Let the school do whatbthey can, you do what you can. Its just a year.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2021 06:12     Subject: Re:Anyone pulling their kid from YY for this hybrid fiasco
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The head of school's inability to speak Chinese and connect with the Chinese community has made DL so much more difficult than it would have been otherwise.


I am so surprised the head of a bilingual education school does not speak both languages.
You must be brand new YY threads,PP. The Mandarin is really just to scare poor minority kids away. It works great, all most of the parents really care about. The like the head, don’t give a hoot that her Mandarin is atrocious, or that nothing comes home to families in Chinese. That’s been true all along and some bilingual families have left over the issue. Not every Chinese speaking family that has tried YY could cope with 100% English communication.
Anonymous
Post 02/01/2021 22:13     Subject: Re:Anyone pulling their kid from YY for this hybrid fiasco
Anonymous wrote:This has zero effect on how YY has rolled out their DL/ hybrid model. We have a child at this school and have had no complaints. In fact, we have commented on the amount of communication from our teachers and the administration.


English must be your first language if you are applauding their communication.
Anonymous
Post 02/01/2021 22:11     Subject: Re:Anyone pulling their kid from YY for this hybrid fiasco
This has zero effect on how YY has rolled out their DL/ hybrid model. We have a child at this school and have had no complaints. In fact, we have commented on the amount of communication from our teachers and the administration.
Anonymous
Post 02/01/2021 22:04     Subject: Re:Anyone pulling their kid from YY for this hybrid fiasco
Anonymous wrote:The head of school's inability to speak Chinese and connect with the Chinese community has made DL so much more difficult than it would have been otherwise.


I am so surprised the head of a bilingual education school does not speak both languages.