Bilingual PK schools with green spaces (NW DC)

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Anonymous wrote:Mundo Verde Calle Ocho and Yu Ying have pretty nice green spaces- those were our top choices for bilingual. YY would not be a heinous commute.

MVC8 doesn’t have any green space. They have a blacktop where kids sometimes play, and a mulched area next to the school with some tables. There’s a lovely fenced in green space across the street, not owned by the school, that children can’t access. It’s a shame! The kids walk to nearby parks for recess.

They're building one for next school year. The PK-Kinder classes will be the closest to the playground

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Anonymous wrote:Lamb is absolutely fantastic for primary. Anything beyond that gets worse every year. Few upper el parents are happy.

Upper El parent here and highly disagree.

Upper el parent here and strongly agree.

Take a look at the declining test scores, the amount of teacher turnover, and the dismal track record of lamb kids at dci. Not good, sorry.

Have a child in 3rd grade and have been really happy but agree I am wary about 4-5th. Let’s see what happens.

That being said our experience to date has been SO wonderful, that I still unequivocally recommend LAMB to prek3 families.

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If only Haricot Vert had come to fruition (vegetablition?).

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DC Bilingual has some of the best green space and play space of any school in the city, Bilingual or not.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lamb is absolutely fantastic for primary. Anything beyond that gets worse every year. Few upper el parents are happy.

Upper El parent here and highly disagree.

Upper el parent here and strongly agree.

Take a look at the declining test scores, the amount of teacher turnover, and the dismal track record of lamb kids at dci. Not good, sorry.

Have a child in 3rd grade and have been really happy but agree I am wary about 4-5th. Let’s see what happens.

That being said our experience to date has been SO wonderful, that I still unequivocally recommend LAMB to prek3 families.

Lamb is so great for Pk3-K.

1-3 depends entirely on your teacher. We weren’t lucky.

4-5 is not good, dismal depending on your teacher (or lack of one, in our case).

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Anonymous wrote:DC Bilingual has some of the best green space and play space of any school in the city, Bilingual or not.

DCB does the best with the space they have, despite the extreme amount of car exhaust in the air. But you need to get out of Ward 4 if you think it’s some of the best outdoor space in the city.

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Another upper L parent here and fairly pleased with upper L

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On the OP's original question: Communikids in Cathedral Heights is bilingual and uses the Newark playground/garden (which is less than a block away) every day, as I understood the tour. The actual facilities don't have green space, though.

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If you are considering lamb know that today, Friday Jan 31, lamb announced to parents that they were closing the school on Monday. The parentsquare title just says “a day without immigrants”. Thankfully I read the message since I strongly support the cause. I cannot believe that this was (1) so poorly communicated to parents and (2) there is only a half day to find care.

Lamb is very much the type of place that makes last minute decisions that seriously affect parents without letting them know ahead of time.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are considering lamb know that today, Friday Jan 31, lamb announced to parents that they were closing the school on Monday. The parentsquare title just says “a day without immigrants”. Thankfully I read the message since I strongly support the cause. I cannot believe that this was (1) so poorly communicated to parents and (2) there is only a half day to find care.

Lamb is very much the type of place that makes last minute decisions that seriously affect parents without letting them know ahead of time.

For what it's worth, that's a very Latin American cultural thing to do.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are considering lamb know that today, Friday Jan 31, lamb announced to parents that they were closing the school on Monday. The parentsquare title just says “a day without immigrants”. Thankfully I read the message since I strongly support the cause. I cannot believe that this was (1) so poorly communicated to parents and (2) there is only a half day to find care.

Lamb is very much the type of place that makes last minute decisions that seriously affect parents without letting them know ahead of time.

For what it's worth, that's a very Latin American cultural thing to do.

Yet the white non immigrant teachers were the happiest to jump on the bandwagon and “stand in solidarity” with their immigrant brothers and sisters. Why didn’t they work that day and offer a half day of childcare? Parents could have donated money to fundraise for affected immigrants?

FWIW, I have found that the Latin American teachers at lamb have been the very best.

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You want Cleveland Elementary. As you walk by there is a tarmac space with all the playground equipment, and on the side of the school is the garden that varying teachers use to varying degrees. Most of these improvements were made after my kids grew out of the space so I hope someone enjoys them. It’s a tiny school with lots of love and hugs. Good blend of diversity between professional classes and earnest hard-working working class. Do not know the current principle.

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OP here - thanks for the recommendations! Our IB is Bruce Monroe and looking at the stats, we have zero chance. Better chance with the bilingual charters. Fingers crossed we get in somewhere on our list but I’m well aware of the stats.