Creative Minds Families - thoughts, comments?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean- there are plenty of high income families with ding dong children- I grew up with plenty of them. So I don't know that it's all the school, and all the teachers. Would those kids be making top scores at another highly rated school? Who is to know. I wouldn't say I'm determined to make anything work- our inbound school is a truly bad DCPS that is NOT an option, and Creative Minds is the only school we met with. No one that I've ever met in DC thus far has stayed at the same schools from prek-5, 8th, 12th etc so not really a big deal.

You sound nice

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I mean- there are plenty of high income families with ding dong children- I grew up with plenty of them. So I don't know that it's all the school, and all the teachers. Would those kids be making top scores at another highly rated school? Who is to know. I wouldn't say I'm determined to make anything work- our inbound school is a truly bad DCPS that is NOT an option, and Creative Minds is the only school we met with. No one that I've ever met in DC thus far has stayed at the same schools from prek-5, 8th, 12th etc so not really a big deal.

You sound nice

Sure but why would CMI have more ding dong children than other similar schools?

What are you doing to "make anything work"?

[Anonymous]

We've been at the school for 3 years. The teachers are really wonderful, but the administration is really awful. I thought it would have been better once Golnar left but I now realize that the challenges are systemic and embedded into the culture of the school. There is a culture of misrepresentation, so the school will always say that everything is fabulous even when you know (and they know) there are serious problems.

We had a really scary, very serious, very dangerous situation with our child at CMI and I really am astonished that the administration is in charge of children's lives safety. I'm still processing all of it, fairly traumatized. I'm working on exit plans for my kids.

It's shame too. We originally got into ITS years ago and we picked CMI when we got off the waitlist. We regret that decision.

[Anonymous]

i'm very sorry to hear that. Do you mind sharing details? For example, was it a dangerous situation because of another child and your child, or teachers not watching properly etc?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i'm very sorry to hear that. Do you mind sharing details? For example, was it a dangerous situation because of another child and your child, or teachers not watching properly etc?

Yes, please elaborate... was it related to facilities, by chance?

[Anonymous]

DCPS is not doing a good job of educating this year. And because of "EQUITY" they're not going to try - it's unfair to try to educate children with computers when others don't have them. So, even if your child COULD be learning, they don't get to. Because it's unfair to those who can't.

DCPS's way of closing the education gap is to drag down the top, not raise the bottom.

With that in mind, I'd pick a charter that has a plan to educate during a crisis. This situation may last a while. Does your child'd education have to suffer in the meantime any more than necessary?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCPS is not doing a good job of educating this year. And because of "EQUITY" they're not going to try - it's unfair to try to educate children with computers when others don't have them. So, even if your child COULD be learning, they don't get to. Because it's unfair to those who can't.

DCPS's way of closing the education gap is to drag down the top, not raise the bottom.

With that in mind, I'd pick a charter that has a plan to educate during a crisis. This situation may last a while. Does your child'd education have to suffer in the meantime any more than necessary?

I think this thread is about Creative Minds, specifically...