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Has anyone left an immersion school for a tradtional school?
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Anonymous
Families do leave YY and Lamb, just not in the numbers you see at the other immersion charters. We switched from YY to a MoCo immersion program in Rockville, where we're happier. We know other families who switched to Sidwell for their strong Chinese program. We like being on track for very strong instruction in Chinese, as well as English, math etc., in MS and HS, all the way to small Higher Level International Baccalaureate 11th-12th grade Mandarin classes at Richard Montgomery HS or Bethesda Chevy Chase. |
Anonymous
Meh. DCI has a permanent space under construction, an actual IB Diploma, and the ability to avoid the hooligans who ride the metro to Deal/Wilson. |
Anonymous
Do they have magical anti-hooligan force field? |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
Not at all. Most of my Shepherd neighbors are at Big 3 privates or Lowell or private Jewish schools (some at language charters). Not an indictment of the quality of Shepherd. They would be at those schools no matter where they lived. Even if it is a haven (a la Hardy) what's wrong with that? Doesn't make it a bad school because people OOB desire the vacant spots left by private going families. |
Anonymous
1. "Meh"?? Are you 12? 2. I know a parent of a DCI student (last year) and she had first-hand experience with discipline problems among DCI students. It's no magical unicorn land of happiness and awesome behavior. |
Anonymous
Was it hard to get into College Gardens and how does it compare? We're at LAMB in the lower grades and will be moving to either Maryland or Virginia and hopefully to an immersion. LAMB is not the Shangrila people like to perpetrate on here. The program and teachers are amazing, however, the peer group leaves a lot to be desired. I can't experiment on my son and hope it works out, so away we go. |
Anonymous
DCI has it's share of hooligans. One attempted to bully my son at school. Until he realized that my son was willing and able to defend himself. Then he backed off like bullies tend to do. |
Anonymous
I doubt this is a lamb parent only because their peer group would be the same one since PK4, right? This makes no sense to me. It reminds me of my friend who would bash mundo verse on here to increase the chances her kids would get in. Maybe if she persuaded one kid not to list MV she'd improve her kids' chances by a little bit. |
Anonymous
Yet, the Mann and Key catchment areas are at least as wealthy as Shepherd, and they attend their neighborhood ES. Why the difference? |
Anonymous
Let's not look at objective data on school performance. Let's follow others like lemmings.
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Anonymous
No, get with it: https://meh.com/ |
Anonymous
? KIPP has objectively high school performance data. That doesn't mean it's right for everyone. |
Anonymous
It's not about wealth so much as 1) Jewish population (Mann and Key do not have same %) and 2) historical wealthy black SP residents that have never trusted or had faith in DCPS and have always sent their kids to private. If you don't get it's that's fine but no need to continue the argument as SP has always been unique in this way. More and more families with young kids are moving into the neighborhood (only about 10-15 homes a year sell in the small neighborhood). That coupled with the new PK3 program, this is steadily changing. Again, it's not a worrisome thing for me or my neighbors as we welcome the devoted OOB families that come to Shepherd. |
Anonymous
Sigh. We've been over and over this but I'll explain again, slowly for you: 1. Many of the children who live in Sheperd Park are Jewish children whose Jewish parents chose that neighborhood so their families could walk to synagogue. They send their children to private Jewish schools like JPDS and they were never, ever going to choose a public school, Sheperd, YY, or otherwise. 2. A lot of homeownvers in SP are long-time, older owners who do not have small children. Census stats bear this out. When they don't have kids in the local school, that frees up more spots for OOB kids. Unlike, say, AU Park and CCDC, where most households have kids < age of 18 |