Comments for Mandarin Immersion Parents Council http://miparentscouncil.org Parents of Kids in Mandarin Immersion Education Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:22:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Many families “don’t get” value of language immersion by Justice Smith http://miparentscouncil.org/2012/01/26/many-families-dont-get-value-of-language-immersion/#comment-1660 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:22:21 +0000 http://miparentscouncil.wordpress.com/?p=3189#comment-1660 I am a former parent at the SWISS school. First and foremost I have to say I agree with the concept of immersion education. And as my family and I departed from the school we have done so without any ill wishes to the institution or the concept. And, had I not come across this article I would have never looked back. But I have come across it and since former parents were brought up as people “who don’t get it” I feel obliged to speak directly about that. Two of the main issues at this school was the disorganized curriculum & finances. Parents were told the curriculum was based on the concepts of IB, Finnish, and Japanese curriculums only to find out that neither the teachers nor administration had backgrounds in any of those areas and were merely guessing their way through it all. Teacher & parent turnover is extremely high. Not one child since the school’s inception (besides the owners’ & director’s children) still attend this school, this should be an alarming sign to all! Administration had a surplus of funds however; they allowed the surplus to dwindle into debt in a matter of a few short months. Unfortunately, the owners & director got in the way of their own success due to overall poor management. This school will never be able to be fixed for that very sad reason. Do not put your children through this emotional roller coaster of a “school” if you do not have to.

]]> Comment on Bilingual parents are awesome! Another homework-helper blog by Fit Bit Reviews http://miparentscouncil.org/2011/10/24/bilingual-parents-are-awesome-another-homework-helper-blog/#comment-1634 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:07:26 +0000 http://miparentscouncil.org/?p=2963#comment-1634 Very insight blog post! :)

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]]> Comment on Vancouver Wash. Mandarin immersion program celebrates its first Chinese New Year by Petra Turmisov http://miparentscouncil.org/2012/01/21/vancouver-bc-mandarin-immersion-program-celebrates-its-first-chinese-new-year/#comment-1588 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:53:18 +0000 http://miparentscouncil.org/?p=3169#comment-1588 Wishing you all the best as we welcome another year of the dragon!

]]> Comment on Vancouver Wash. Mandarin immersion program celebrates its first Chinese New Year by Neal http://miparentscouncil.org/2012/01/21/vancouver-bc-mandarin-immersion-program-celebrates-its-first-chinese-new-year/#comment-1587 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:46:14 +0000 http://miparentscouncil.org/?p=3169#comment-1587 Vancouver Washington not BC! :)

]]> Comment on French still more popular than Mandarin in Vancouver, Canada by Ining Chao http://miparentscouncil.org/2012/01/18/french-still-more-popular-than-mandarin-in-vancouver-canada/#comment-1577 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:31:55 +0000 http://miparentscouncil.org/?p=3151#comment-1577 This is not surprising giving Canadian’s political and cultural reality. French is the official language. I enroll my daughters in a French school as well, even though I’m also teaching them Mandarin at home. The good news is that Canada has successfully made French education strong without sacrificing English. As a parent, I want my kids to be bilingual, not just English or French, but both. And my dream would be for them to be trilingual! To make Mandarin Immersion work, there are lots of lessons from the Canadian French Immersion model that can be applied. It will take a whole community (parents, teachers, schools and the public) to support it.

]]> Comment on Mandarin immersion charter proposed for west-of-Boston towns by cindijones5 http://miparentscouncil.org/2010/08/18/mandarin-immersion-charter-proposed-for-west-of-boston-towns/#comment-1554 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:56:14 +0000 http://miparentscouncil.org/?p=2105#comment-1554 Has this been knocked out all together or are they still trying? We live in Michigan with children currently enrolled in a Mandarin Immersion program, and will be relocating to this area in Massachusetts and would like to see this school up and running before we move:).

]]> Comment on Houston’s Mandarin immersion school to open fall of 2012 by Erlinda Song http://miparentscouncil.org/2011/12/27/houstons-mandarin-immersion-school-to-open-fall-of-2012/#comment-1522 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:50:06 +0000 http://miparentscouncil.org/?p=3080#comment-1522 Yay! Houston has a Mandarin Immersion program!

]]> Comment on Moving to Beijing – the nuts and bolts of the matter by elizabethweise http://miparentscouncil.org/2011/12/19/moving-to-beijing-the-nuts-and-bolts-of-the-matter/#comment-1496 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:35:02 +0000 http://miparentscouncil.org/?p=3076#comment-1496 Click on the word “here” in bold in the post, it takes you to her blog. I also put it in our Links list on the right hand side of this blog, as Moving to Beijing.
Contact Starr King or Jose Ortega about Mandarin immersion in San Francisco, or email the MIPC and we can set you up.

]]> Comment on Moving to Beijing – the nuts and bolts of the matter by shelli http://miparentscouncil.org/2011/12/19/moving-to-beijing-the-nuts-and-bolts-of-the-matter/#comment-1495 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:07:14 +0000 http://miparentscouncil.org/?p=3076#comment-1495 I would love to follow your journey! Is there a direct link?
We are moving from MI to San Francisco to give our 3 adopted children from China a more Chinese immersion. My husband’s new job is downtown SF (SOMA) . He will move to SF in Jan. I hope to bring everyone by spring. Any info you have on renting, schools, chinese school etc. would be greatly appreciated.

thanks-
Shelli

]]> Comment on 2011 Chinese Language Education Forum, Nov 12-13, San Francisco by leto http://miparentscouncil.org/2011/09/27/2011-chinese-language-education-forum-nov-12-13-san-francisco/#comment-1441 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:03:03 +0000 http://miparentscouncil.org/?p=2914#comment-1441 we missd this event this year, but i think it is an annual event, so i hope that we can make it next year, do you knwo the dates when it will be organized next year?

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