Anonymous wrote:Do any current YY families know if they host a tour for PK matchee's, or should we contact the school to arrange an individual one? Only one of us took the tour before the lottery, so now that we matched would like spouse to get a feel for it too.

Separately, its nice hearing there are other PK4 new arrivals who will be starting fresh with us - its a bit intimidating starting language immersion joining kids who have already been doing it, I am glad there will be other newbies.

Anonymous wrote:OP here - This is for PK4. Will learning to write suffer? How do they teach English writing if its Chinese only in PK level?

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Anonymous wrote:PP again. From this thread it seems like the challenge with YY is learning English rather than Chinese, and parents should supplement with English.

The research is pretty clear that bilingual education improves learning in the native language. There are literally hundreds of peer reviewed studies proving this.

Could YY in particular improve ELA instruction? Probably . The PP whose kid went from YY to a top private and needed added writing instruction would probably have had the same problem coming out of Murch. The one advantage privates have over publics is that the small class sizes let teachers assign and grade a lot more essays.

Agree with this and would just add that I believe the research shows that there is often an initial lag in language development for kids who start out with two languages, but then the kids typically catch up and even surpass monolingual counterparts.

YY parents love to claim this, citing studies. My inconvenient question is, who's your competition?

At our JKLM, ELA instruction has been a lot stronger than what we got at YY, and so is the Chinese instruction at our MD heritage program. It can be difficult to justify the need to "catch up" when many of the YY kids never progress beyond what amounts to kindergarten spoken Chinese. Yea, you don't want to hear this as a parent, not when you love the warm and welcoming program, lovely campus etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Can current parents give insight on how much before and aftercare is? For someone who won’t qualify for any vouchers or assistance

It's very expensive

How much specifically?

https://www.washingtonyuying.org/community/

Yu Ying’s REEF program is Monday-Thursday from 3:30-5:45 p.m. and Friday 1:00-5:45 p.m. Registration for REEF begins approximately two weeks before the start of the new sessions. Yu Ying offers three sessions per year during fall, winter, and spring. The payment schedule for REEF is flexible and based on a student’s’ level of participation. For example, a drop-in rate is $22 per day per child (M-Th) and the monthly full program rate is $450 per month per child. Yu Ying offers a reduced rate for families who qualify as well as sibling discounts. Yu Ying offers before school care as well from 7:30 a.m. to 8:10 a.m. Monday through Friday.

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Yu Ying versus North Arlington public elementary school. Go!

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Anonymous wrote:Can current parents give insight on how much before and aftercare is? For someone who won’t qualify for any vouchers or assistance

It's very expensive

How much specifically?

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Yu Ying versus North Arlington public elementary school. Go!

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Anonymous wrote:Can current parents give insight on how much before and aftercare is? For someone who won’t qualify for any vouchers or assistance

It's very expensive

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Anonymous wrote:PP again. From this thread it seems like the challenge with YY is learning English rather than Chinese, and parents should supplement with English.

The research is pretty clear that bilingual education improves learning in the native language. There are literally hundreds of peer reviewed studies proving this.

Could YY in particular improve ELA instruction? Probably . The PP whose kid went from YY to a top private and needed added writing instruction would probably have had the same problem coming out of Murch. The one advantage privates have over publics is that the small class sizes let teachers assign and grade a lot more essays.

Agree with this and would just add that I believe the research shows that there is often an initial lag in language development for kids who start out with two languages, but then the kids typically catch up and even surpass monolingual counterparts.

YY parents love to claim this, citing studies. My inconvenient question is, who's your competition?

At our JKLM, ELA instruction has been a lot stronger than what we got at YY, and so is the Chinese instruction at our MD heritage program. It can be difficult to justify the need to "catch up" when many of the YY kids never progress beyond what amounts to kindergarten spoken Chinese. Yea, you don't want to hear this as a parent, not when you love the warm and welcoming program, lovely campus etc.

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Anonymous wrote:PP again. From this thread it seems like the challenge with YY is learning English rather than Chinese, and parents should supplement with English.

The research is pretty clear that bilingual education improves learning in the native language. There are literally hundreds of peer reviewed studies proving this.

Could YY in particular improve ELA instruction? Probably . The PP whose kid went from YY to a top private and needed added writing instruction would probably have had the same problem coming out of Murch. The one advantage privates have over publics is that the small class sizes let teachers assign and grade a lot more essays.

Agree with this and would just add that I believe the research shows that there is often an initial lag in language development for kids who start out with two languages, but then the kids typically catch up and even surpass monolingual counterparts.

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Anonymous wrote:We thought we were golden at YY until we moved on to a top DC private for 6th grade. The school made our kid take a remedial English course the summer before enrolling (although he got 5s on the PARCC for ELA) and wasn't impressed with his Chinese either. They interviewed him partially in Mandarin.

We're AA and don't speak Chinese at home. Wish things were different.

Assuming you stayed with YY, what do you wish you had done differently? Tutoring?