the weekend chinese schools, in addition to saturday classes, also held classes on summer weekdays and in after-school periods on other weekdays. as of 1993 the yearly tuition of a weekend chinese school for children ranged $200 to $300 (with inflation accounted for, $ to $) per person. classes were generally held from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm. some public schools in the san gabriel valley distributed foreign language credits to students of chinese schools.