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Anyone going to the Inspired Teaching lottery tomorrow night?
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Anonymous
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Anonymous
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lottery for tomorrow is they going be call by numbers or names?
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Anonymous
| Not sure about numbers vs. names, but they'll give you numbers for your kid(s) if you go. |
Anonymous
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I went. Big news is that they're going to be in the current Yu Ying space in Brookland, not the DCPS as they had announced! Deal fell through.
Waitlists for PS and PK, 1 kid on the wiatlist for K, openings in 1st and above. |
Anonymous
| How long were the ps/pk lists? |
Anonymous
| didn't make it, curious as to how many people are on the PS waitlist. any thoughts on the new space for the school? decent facilities? any more discussion on the ratios? we were surprised that the preschool class was going to have the same student:teacher ratio as 1st 2nd and 3rd grade! |
Anonymous
| Letters are supposed to go out later this week. That will probably have more information. |
Anonymous
| I thought that Potomac Lighthouse was suppose to have the whole school once Yu Ying moved out? |
Anonymous
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I am guessing there were 60-65 on the waitlist for PS, maybe 40 for PK.
As to ratios, I got this in an email: "2 pre-school (age 3) classes and 1 pre-school (age 4) class. You should expect to see anywhere from a 1:12 to a 1:10 ratio...With a Master Teacher and Teacher Resident in each class, our student/teacher ratio will be manageable within the teaching methodologies created by Center for Inspired Teaching." They had a slide show on the current Yu Ying space near Providence Hospital. It looks nice. Current Yu Ying parents could undoubtedly tell us more. |
Anonymous
As someone who lives in the neighborood of the DCPS building they were considering, that's a crying shame--that building has been a blight in the neighborhood for years now, and I was really looking forward to its being occupied. |
Anonymous
| I'm confused. Yu Ying's website makes it sound like they're staying in that location, that they recently renovated, and that they'll be sharing the building w/ another charter. Does that mean that Inspired Teaching and Yu Ying will be in the same building? (That's not a problem form me...just wondering.) |
Anonymous
That building, Bertie Backus, now belongs to UDC. |
Anonymous
Yu Ying is moving to 220 Taylor NE. It's a lovely former seminary (or something like that), and they are renovating it and building a new addition. If Inspired Teaching is moving into Yu Ying's old space, it will be part of Potomac Lighthouse's building. It's a nice enough building, but Potomac Lighthouse has the better floors. Yu Ying just had the basement and a portion of the main floor. |
Anonymous
| Bertie Backus looks like it's about to be occupied. This is not the school that inspired teaching had their eyes on. |
Anonymous
| I think Inspired Teaching will be happy with the Yu Ying space (as a current Yu Ying parent I think its been great). Yu Ying has the current basement floor and half of the first floor--the first floor classrooms are much nicer because of all the light, but the basement floor is perfectly fine and the playground, neighborhood, and multi-purpose lunch room are all great. Yu Ying is moving because they are expanding to 8th grade eventually and too big for the space they have, but it will be a perfect fit for a new school like Inspired Teaching for the first couple of years until they find a permanent building. I'm assuming Potomac will take a couple of the extra classrooms for their growth, but there will still be adequate space for another charter school. |