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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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HCSTC Board's Message |
Dear HCS-TC parents, students and teachers:
Welcome to Hope Chinese School Tysons Corner Campus (HCS-TC). Originally founded in 1993, Hope Chinese School is a non-profit, independent school. It provides an educational setting for students to learn the modern Chinese language using Pin-Yin (phonetic writing system) and simplified characters. Our HCS Tysons Corner campus was established in 2015. We serve students from Northern Virginia and the whole Washington metropolitan area.
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Information about Fall 2024 |
The Fall, 2024 semester runs from 09/08/2024 to 12/15/2024. Weekly classes are offered every Sunday afternoon from 2pm to 5:50pm. All classes in the Fall 2024 will be in the form of in-person learning at the Marshall High School near Tysons Corner, Virginia.
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Registration for 2024 Fall Semester |
1. Registration Policy:
All registration must be completed online at http://www.hopechineseschool.org/hcstc/Logon.aspx. Due to the pandemic and shrinking pool of volunteers, our onsite registration service will be very limited. We are asking parents to update registration as soon as possible to secure your seats, as we limit the size of many of our classes to achieve a better online learning experience.
2. Tuition Payment : Tuition is due upon registration. To minimize unnecessary close personal contact, we are adding PayPal as a new payment method. Families can choose to mail a check to the School (HCS-TC, P.O. Box 9023, McLean, VA 22102) or pay by PayPal. The School will absorb the Paypal transaction costs to make it convenient to our parents.
The School requires every student to fully pay their tuitions after they register. If a class registration is full but not all students pay the tuition, the School will drop those unpaid students registrations immediately in order to make rooms for others and to be fair to everyone. On the 1st day of our school, any registered but unpaid students will be dropped from our registration system to ensure the integrity and fairness of the HCSTC, and allow others to register for the available seats in those classes.
3. Refund Policy: September 8, 2024 is the 1st day of the School. If students do not wish to continue after their 1st day of classes, they should immediately drop their classes from our registration system online and complete the process by the end of September 11th,2024. The School will refund 100% of the paid tuition and credit them back to the family accounts, however, the registration fees are not refundable. After September 11th, 2024 tuition will not be refundable. The deadline date is set to give registration team members enough time to process these requests and allow our teachers to be notified and drop these students from their classes. However, families can change their paid classes to any other classes of equal $ value that we offer at TC campus, without any additional charge during the entire semester; in case they find that their originally registered classes may not fit their needs later. This is to provide the most flexibility and convenience to our TC campus community members and lessen the workload of our volunteers.
4. Textbook Sales-Ma Liping textbook (马立平中文教科书)/ShuangShuang(新双双教材): The School will organize a school wide Ma Liping//ShuangShuang(新双双) textbooks sale on the 1st day of the school 9/8/2024 only on a first come first serve basis.
5. Textbook Sales-Jinan and Bilingual Chinese Textbook(暨南 和双语“阳阳”教科书) The School will also organize textbooks sales for JiNan, Bilingual and Kindergarten MLP classes on the 1st day of the School.
We will need volunteers to handle textbook payment and distribution on the 1st day of the fall semester. If you would like to volunteer, please email our Jinan and Bilingual textbook coordinator, Min Yao at minyao88@gmail.com.
After the 1st day, if you want to purchase any textbooks, you must email our textbook coordinator, Min Yao at minyao88@gmail.com.
Parents can also buy MLP textbooks for the school year at http://www.heritagechinese.com., ShuangShuang(新双双教材) at http://www.shuangbookstore.com.
6. Parental Consent:
In order to provide your child with the effective tools to enhance their learning, Hope Chinese School (HCS) may use online tools and applications, which would require parental permission for your child to obtain access to the internet. By registering or using such courses and applications, certain personal identifying information, including but not limited to student’s name, phone number, and email address, may be provided to the web site operators. By registering your child for any HCSTC classes, you agree to give your parental consent for our school to use such personal identifying information for your child in conducting online courses, and other online applications.
By registering any classes for your child from HCSTC, you also consent to HCSTC’s collection, use, and disclosure of information about your child through the course registration process and other manual or electronic procedures of the HCSTC and course/application providers. Also understanding that your child is attending courses which may use online tools and/or using online applications, and that the information collected is needed for these courses. Your parental consent covers all types of online tools and/or applications for our courses, included but not limited to video and web-based portion of our courses. You also understand that your child’s image may be transmitted during video portions of our courses and the information supplied to the course provider and HCSTC may include, but not be limited to: student’s name, phone number, and email address. Since the online tools/applications of our courses are web-based, content accessed from home or elsewhere outside the school could put the student in contact with objectionable materials via the internet. It is the responsibility of the parent/guardian of the student to restrict any access to materials deemed inappropriate by the parent/guardian. Again, by registering your child for any HCSTC classes, you hereby consent that all online portion of course content is copyright of HCSTC, any redistribution or reproduction of part or all of the contents in any form is prohibited including recording (either audio or video) and screenshot.
HCS has taken this necessary step in order to be in compliance with the federal legislation for child protection, including The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
(FERPA - https://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/index.html) (COPPA https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/media-resources/protecting-consumer-privacysecurity/
kids-privacy-coppa).
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New Family/Student Registration |
1. Create an Account:
If you are new to our school, you need to first create your account. Click the “sign up” link on the top of the page, enter your family profile and student information, and wait for approval before you can register classes. New accounts are usually approved in 1-2 days. Once your account is set up, you can view the class options and register.
New families are always welcome to visit our campus on Sunday afternoon for consultations when the school is in session.
2. Join School Email List:
The parent e-mail list (hcstcparents@googlegroups.com) is used by the school to send important notices. For new users, after your accounts are created and approved by the school, the HCS-TC registration team will add you to the email list and invite you to join the list. Please accept that invitation in order to receive weekly
school message.
If you haven’t received any email from the school, please follow the instructions below to add yourself to this group email list.
- Login to the online registration system and update your email address. This ensures that your data is valid and you will not be dropped from the list during a future update.
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Send a blank email to hcstcparents+subscribe@googlegroups.com from your email account and reply to the confirmation email from the list to activate your subscription. Once you join the google groups, you may also visit our parent group site for all announcements.
3. Update/change Email Address in the email List:
If you want to change your email address in the parent email list, you must send a request to make change. Changing it in your profile does not automatically change it in the email list.
To change your login ID or password, click the My Profile tab after you log in, then click the “Update Login or Password” link at the top right corner of the page.
For answers to other Frequently Asked Questions, please click “Help” at the top right corner of the page.
Volunteers Needed
We would like to thank our teachers and volunteers including teachers’ training team, registration team and textbook coordination team, who have worked tirelessly behind the scene to put together our school's schedule and teaching programs for our community, so that you all can enjoy and benefit from this fabulous learning environment. We need more volunteers to help the school to succeed. If you would like to help, please email us at hcstc@hopechineseschool.org
Best regards and look forward to seeing all of you in the new school year.
HCS-TC BOARD
泰城校区教学网
Education NET |
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