What's this about protests at Mundo Verde?

[Anonymous]

I think what the parents were trying to say is that their daughter had read about MLK and wanted to take an action like he did when he felt something was wrong. I don't believe they meant to indicate they thought their child was Rosa Parks. I think the child was jus inspired by those who speak up.

[Anonymous]

Good for them! What an important lesson is civil disobedience and standing up to bullying. I hope MV does the right thing and doesn't sweep this under the rug.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good for them! What an important lesson is civil disobedience and standing up to bullying. I hope MV does the right thing and doesn't sweep this under the rug.

In theory. But there are plenty of parents who are more interested in their own voices being heard than their 7 year old's. There are plenty of living legends and ordinary folk from the national Civil Rights Movement and immigrant and Latino rights movement of the 80s-90s right here in DC. Reading a picture book about MLK or Rosa Parks or Cesar Chavez is great, but without a broader context and deeper exploration then little kids often think of them as superheroes more than real people.

Hopefully the student involved won't be the subject of even more unwanted attention as a result of something adults decided to do.

[Anonymous]

Is this the other site OP was referring to? Anonymous parent reviews that kind of sound like the protesters themselves.

http://www.greatschools.org/washington-dc/washington/874-Mundo-Verde-Bilingual-PCS/?tab=reviews

[Anonymous]

Here's what the critical GS post said - no one was identified by name, but there is no privacy issue, but the picture that is painted is of a dysfunctional school that sweeps bullying under the rug.

"I am trying not to start this review by saying that this is the worst program in DC, because I want this to be a helpful review. It is nearly four months into the school year and the staff are still unaware of my child's academic ability. In addition, we had multiple bullying incidents that have been minimized and met with denial and strict adherence to a policy of keeping her in the class (despite her discomfort and now the teacher's discomfort in dealing with us. We had just moved to DC and had such high aspirations for this school to work for our daughter. We are sad and disheartened by this experience. Moreover, we are beside ourselves trying to find a new and more permanent school for her. It has been validating talking to other parents who are experiencing the same thing. Perhaps the school will fold after a few years, like so many other charters. My hope is that they get better teaching and administrative staff, but that is probably not going to happen, since their tactic is one of closing ranks and ignoring problems."

[Anonymous]

oh brother. sounds like the whole thing is about helicopter parents making a school miserable.

[Anonymous]

This is the school that's in it's 2nd yr old of existence? Oh brother... The parents should go to an established school if they don't want to work through it's growing pains.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like they are from NY

[Anonymous]

That makes no sense.

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like they are from NY

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That makes no sense.

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like they are from NY

They are new to dc. Must be from somewhere

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is the school that's in it's 2nd yr old of existence? Oh brother... The parents should go to an established school if they don't want to work through it's growing pains.

^This. I'm not an MV parent, but that's obviously just a spiteful and vengeful blurb on Greatschools. Of course, nobody with common sense actually places much value on individual crank comments on GS, any more than we do on Yelp or Amazon or DCUM. In a forum where any yahoo can express her opinion, only the die-hards actually do so. IOW, the happy, satisfied customers speak up, as do the pissed-off ones. The vast majority in the middle go unheard. Everyone gets this intuitively, which is why individual bitch-comments don't matter.

[Anonymous]

I am so happy these people left!

[Anonymous]

does anyone know where they landed?

[Anonymous]

Were they Spanish speakers? Maybe they had unrealistic expectations about immersion. Wouldn't be the first time parents of "G&T at Age 3" kids complain about schools underestimating their wunderkind.

Did they mean the child had special needs that were overlooked? Which is obviously a problem. What was the nature of the bullying? Racial? SES? Paranoia? What grade?

Normally I don't ask such personal details, but since the purported parent posted about it online and protested in public, they clearly want attention on the situation and must have assumed they could be outed.

[Anonymous]

First grade. Although they said it escalated, they cited as an example, accusations of gender inferiority by other first graders.