Northwest DC Public Charter Schools

[Anonymous]

I understand that students in an immersion environment may test "behind" in the early/mid elementary years. It's not uncommon and in fact it's to be expected. There's plenty of long-term research to substantiate that in the late elementary/middle school years that immersion students not only "catch up" (if they are in fact behind, which isn't necessarily the case) but then surpass their monolingual peers in all tested subjects: math, and ALSO english language arts.

The data is so universally supportive of immersion education that it almost seems like we're depriving children of their full potential when we condemn them to growing up monolingual.

[Anonymous]

I'm looking into a few DC public charters for when my kids reach school age. So, stupid question - I hear a lot about the elementary schools, but for example, if my son got into Capital City, where would he go to middle school? High school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm looking into a few DC public charters for when my kids reach school age. So, stupid question - I hear a lot about the elementary schools, but for example, if my son got into Capital City, where would he go to middle school? High school?

If you're lucky enough to get into Cap City you can go all the way through high school. Cap City amended its charter to go all the way to 12.

[Anonymous]

Capital city has lost kids to School without Walls, Latin, Deal, privates. The upper school program is still pretty new, and kids who want a larger class size with more options, tend to move on. By larger class size, I mean a graduating class of several hundred (not class size as in kids per classroom with teacher) so that there can be a marching band, debate club, choice of several foreign languages, AP classes, sports teams, cheerleading, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Capital city has lost kids to School without Walls, Latin, Deal, privates. The upper school program is still pretty new, and kids who want a larger class size with more options, tend to move on. By larger class size, I mean a graduating class of several hundred (not class size as in kids per classroom with teacher) so that there can be a marching band, debate club, choice of several foreign languages, AP classes, sports teams, cheerleading, etc.

Funny though isn't it? After all, one of the selling points of the best private schools is small classes - even at the high school level. A class of less than 100 is a goal of top schools, in and of itself.

[Anonymous]

i assume that the private schools have more resource to support a plethora of after school and extra-curricular activities. and they have long established sports leagues and such. what do the charters do? do they play in leagues with dcps?