Latin Cooper and Yu Ying possibly purchasing the Kirov Ballet building (W5)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This gets worse and worse. First they reneg on an east of the river location. Then they pick a location near to where they already were further sapping dcps and promoting gentrification. Now they get to get more kids from yy?
Houses near there are going to sky rocket in value.

Charters rarely have much effect on the value of property around them because the lottery aspect significantly narrows the pool of buyers (only people who have already secured spots at the school will even consider it and there is no requirement of being within a particular redlined boundary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This gets worse and worse. First they reneg on an east of the river location. Then they pick a location near to where they already were further sapping dcps and promoting gentrification. Now they get to get more kids from yy?
Houses near there are going to sky rocket in value.

I fail to see how any of these developments are "bad." An East of the River location would obviously have been a failure for YY. Immersion Mandarin is the preserve of the UMC for obvious reasons.

Latin Cooper teamed up with YY for good reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This gets worse and worse. First they reneg on an east of the river location. Then they pick a location near to where they already were further sapping dcps and promoting gentrification. Now they get to get more kids from yy?
Houses near there are going to sky rocket in value.

Tell me you don’t understand how charter schools work

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This gets worse and worse. First they reneg on an east of the river location. Then they pick a location near to where they already were further sapping dcps and promoting gentrification. Now they get to get more kids from yy?
Houses near there are going to sky rocket in value.

Tell me you have a kid in ECE without telling me. No one moves to be closer to a high school or MS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This gets worse and worse. First they reneg on an east of the river location. Then they pick a location near to where they already were further sapping dcps and promoting gentrification. Now they get to get more kids from yy?
Houses near there are going to sky rocket in value.

Tell me you have a kid in ECE without telling me. No one moves to be closer to a high school or MS.

People do move if they get on a good charter path. If yy can feed to dci or Latin then people who win the lottery early on may move in the general area (yes I know charters font havr boundaries). It's much cheaper to buy a house in Ward 5 than Ward 3. Second middle is a time that many families in smaller places move to bigger places with better schools. So a family who wins the lotto in 4th grade may move in that general area if they are looking to upgrade size wise from a small row house on the hill or a condo downtown. I know 3 people who have done this. And more who talk about it. It's no different than people on the hill.moving to the burbs if they don't get into a good middle achool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chinese at DCI deserves to be on life support. The academics at both YY and DCI are lackluster, including the Mandarin. When most of the parents jump on board YY more for a school with an at-risk participation in the single digits than for the language immersion, what can we expect 8-12 years later at DCI? Great results and many kids still on board? Obviously not.

If YY gets the two middle school feeds, Latin Cooper will accrue the benefit. Sounds like win-win.

Its not fair to kids NOT in the YY feeder to get a shot at Latin. Why should kids get a select few slots into YY, then slide into Latin if they were never serious about chinese to begin with.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This gets worse and worse. First they reneg on an east of the river location. Then they pick a location near to where they already were further sapping dcps and promoting gentrification. Now they get to get more kids from yy?
Houses near there are going to sky rocket in value.

Tell me you have a kid in ECE without telling me. No one moves to be closer to a high school or MS.

People do move if they get on a good charter path. If yy can feed to dci or Latin then people who win the lottery early on may move in the general area (yes I know charters font havr boundaries). It's much cheaper to buy a house in Ward 5 than Ward 3. Second middle is a time that many families in smaller places move to bigger places with better schools. So a family who wins the lotto in 4th grade may move in that general area if they are looking to upgrade size wise from a small row house on the hill or a condo downtown. I know 3 people who have done this. And more who talk about it. It's no different than people on the hill.moving to the burbs if they don't get into a good middle achool.

Yes, it is. You think someone might move in 4th because you don't have a kid in MS or HS. People with older kids know that what seems like a good MS/HS isn't always. Moving for a charter in 4th is foolish and short sighted. You will know this in a few years.

[Anonymous]

Or in a few weeks when lotto results come out! Keep your fingers crossed for us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This gets worse and worse. First they reneg on an east of the river location. Then they pick a location near to where they already were further sapping dcps and promoting gentrification. Now they get to get more kids from yy?
Houses near there are going to sky rocket in value.

Tell me you have a kid in ECE without telling me. No one moves to be closer to a high school or MS.

People do move if they get on a good charter path. If yy can feed to dci or Latin then people who win the lottery early on may move in the general area (yes I know charters font havr boundaries). It's much cheaper to buy a house in Ward 5 than Ward 3. Second middle is a time that many families in smaller places move to bigger places with better schools. So a family who wins the lotto in 4th grade may move in that general area if they are looking to upgrade size wise from a small row house on the hill or a condo downtown. I know 3 people who have done this. And more who talk about it. It's no different than people on the hill.moving to the burbs if they don't get into a good middle achool.

Yes, it is. You think someone might move in 4th because you don't have a kid in MS or HS. People with older kids know that what seems like a good MS/HS isn't always. Moving for a charter in 4th is foolish and short sighted. You will know this in a few years.

+1. It’s totally different. If you don’t get into a school, you move IB for one vs you get into a school that you get to go to no matter where you live, so you move closer to it. Not remotely the same.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chinese at DCI deserves to be on life support. The academics at both YY and DCI are lackluster, including the Mandarin. When most of the parents jump on board YY more for a school with an at-risk participation in the single digits than for the language immersion, what can we expect 8-12 years later at DCI? Great results and many kids still on board? Obviously not.

If YY gets the two middle school feeds, Latin Cooper will accrue the benefit. Sounds like win-win.

Its not fair to kids NOT in the YY feeder to get a shot at Latin. Why should kids get a select few slots into YY, then slide into Latin if they were never serious about chinese to begin with.

Because the arrangement would be great for both YY and Latin, co-located on the same campus in the future. No need for the DCPCSB to cut off its nose to spite its face on this one. DC hasn't been serious about Chinese to begin with. Parents can't be blamed. YY's leadership asked the city for a preference for native speakers way back in 2009. They were denied. With hardly any native speakers, Chinese at YY can't work well.

[Anonymous]

+1.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chinese at DCI deserves to be on life support. The academics at both YY and DCI are lackluster, including the Mandarin. When most of the parents jump on board YY more for a school with an at-risk participation in the single digits than for the language immersion, what can we expect 8-12 years later at DCI? Great results and many kids still on board? Obviously not.

If YY gets the two middle school feeds, Latin Cooper will accrue the benefit. Sounds like win-win.

Its not fair to kids NOT in the YY feeder to get a shot at Latin. Why should kids get a select few slots into YY, then slide into Latin if they were never serious about chinese to begin with.

Because the arrangement would be great for both YY and Latin, co-located on the same campus in the future. No need for the DCPCSB to cut off its nose to spite its face on this one. DC hasn't been serious about Chinese to begin with. Parents can't be blamed. YY's leadership asked the city for a preference for native speakers way back in 2009. They were denied. With hardly any native speakers, Chinese at YY can't work well.

This is nonsense. The whole reason YY requested a charter for DCI was for kids to continue their Chinese studies. They can’t suddenly pivot and say we don’t care about Chinese.

[Anonymous]

Yu Ying is putting its PK program on the Kirov campus. So only sort of co-located. When has anyone ever talked about a Yu Ying feeder preference to Latin? Sounds like parent speculation that became a rumor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yu Ying is putting its PK program on the Kirov campus. So only sort of co-located. When has anyone ever talked about a Yu Ying feeder preference to Latin? Sounds like parent speculation that became a rumor.

It is a game of telephone situation from an unclear answer the Latin HOS gave in a parent meeting. He said something vague in an answer to a question about possible preference for Yu Ying siblings at Latin’s new campus after they are sharing the Kirov campus. He kind of said he hadn’t heard anything about that idea and kind of shrugged and said he might not be opposed if it came up.

This off the cuff remark as been blown way out of proportion. Not even his decision, I imagine. Would require all kinds of outreach and charter board approval. The schools’ charters aren’t linked in any way, they are separate LEAs. They are simply co-locating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yu Ying is putting its PK program on the Kirov campus. So only sort of co-located. When has anyone ever talked about a Yu Ying feeder preference to Latin? Sounds like parent speculation that became a rumor.

It is a game of telephone situation from an unclear answer the Latin HOS gave in a parent meeting. He said something vague in an answer to a question about possible preference for Yu Ying siblings at Latin’s new campus after they are sharing the Kirov campus. He kind of said he hadn’t heard anything about that idea and kind of shrugged and said he might not be opposed if it came up.

This off the cuff remark as been blown way out of proportion. Not even his decision, I imagine. Would require all kinds of outreach and charter board approval. The schools’ charters aren’t linked in any way, they are separate LEAs. They are simply co-locating.

Classic DCUM.