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Anonymous wrote:My summary of the Chinese was it was exposure to the fact that other languages exist rather an actual education in speaking it. They are in high school now and mostly remember watching Teletubby videos in Chinese. When they had Spanish originally it was a bit better.

I posted earlier that my kid hated Chinese at CGES.

I do agree your statement that I bolded. And the irony of that my statement is that, DUH, all you have to do is go out in any neighborhood in the RM cluster, including the neighborhoods that feed into CGES to realize that foreign languages exist. We would hear Russian, Chinese and Spanish regularly at the park. I still think that learning numbers & colors would have been better than the videos. At my kid's pre-school, they had a once or twice weekly Chinese "class" (where the instructor sang songs, did the core words, re-incorporated the words back into the song, etc.) and the kids were interacting and responding and all loving it. But then my same child hated CGES Chinese. (I got to observe one day at pre-school and it was fascinating how much they were learning at 4 years old.)

Its a good reminder that some things that seem great on paper are not that important in reality.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My summary of the Chinese was it was exposure to the fact that other languages exist rather an actual education in speaking it. They are in high school now and mostly remember watching Teletubby videos in Chinese. When they had Spanish originally it was a bit better.

I posted earlier that my kid hated Chinese at CGES.

I do agree your statement that I bolded. And the irony of that my statement is that, DUH, all you have to do is go out in any neighborhood in the RM cluster, including the neighborhoods that feed into CGES to realize that foreign languages exist. We would hear Russian, Chinese and Spanish regularly at the park. I still think that learning numbers & colors would have been better than the videos. At my kid's pre-school, they had a once or twice weekly Chinese "class" (where the instructor sang songs, did the core words, re-incorporated the words back into the song, etc.) and the kids were interacting and responding and all loving it. But then my same child hated CGES Chinese. (I got to observe one day at pre-school and it was fascinating how much they were learning at 4 years old.)

Anonymous wrote:My summary of the Chinese was it was exposure to the fact that other languages exist rather an actual education in speaking it. They are in high school now and mostly remember watching Teletubby videos in Chinese. When they had Spanish originally it was a bit better.

Khamy wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:College garden has foreign language class as part of the PYP program, Beall will not have that. That is the only curriculum difference I can think of.

As a former CGES parent, I can assure you that my kid got nothing from the instruction. It was randomly scheduled, nothing came home about what they were learning or doing during that 30 minutes one day a week. I always felt that they could have made it meaningful - teach colors, foods, numbers, action verbs, etc. The instructors were "on loan" from China as part of the PYP program, so they are not MCPS teachers.

Same experience.

During parents' day at school I watched a Chinese course it was really interesting but my children quickly forget what they learned as they don't practice at home.

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Khamy wrote:I never said the school was a dump I just said the building was older and seemed smaller than CG.

I don't understand why people are so touchy and so easily aggressive online maybe because it's soooo easy behind a computer or a cellphone.

Don't walk into Beall the first day remarking about what a dump it is.

I'm educated I know how to communicate and express my feelings in an appropriate way with people, thanks.

Re-read your original post... You started with a frowny face. You complained about the building and playground which you said were important to you. You then worried about parking and the curriculum. While it may not have been your intention, you were all negative.

I agree. But somehow the OP's "sad face"(as she said) is alleged to be respectful and doesn't really mean she is sad. And CG3 still has no clue that they looked awful during the Nov 16 BOE public hearing.