Haricots Verts (French Green Immersion Charter)
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Anonymous
Please explain this statement. |
Anonymous
NP. My IBs school is something like 90% FARMS. The test scores reflect that less than 20% of the children can read. I sadly pass by the school on the way to my child's charter and feel terrible for what I've personally seen. Aloof teachers (at the school I think they employ Teach for America types or something because the instructors all look young, many have a lot of tattoos and none of them are dressed professionally) who are talking on cell phones while groups of kids bully each other. There was a small group of parents that banded together to send their kids to Pre-K there and within a month one parent had transferred due to getting into an acceptable charter, another parent just pulled her kid out with no back-up and another family decided they would stay but move out of the area next year. None of the above sounds good enough for any child, mine, yours or even the children forced to attend. The city is in crisis. The charter movement, in it's strength, proves the point. Something has got to be done. I question rather random people should be allowed to start charters as part of the solution because this thread proves there are people with inappropriate motives, etc..., but I do think high quality charters are certainly part of the solution. The other part of the solution is DCPS stepping it up. There's no reason why they can't literally pick an EofP or EofR school and turn it into a high quality language immersion, French or whatever. They'll have to battle the teacher's union and instructors who would be displaced, but I think the kids are worth the fight. The time is now! |
Anonymous
Thank you. What you wrote makes sense. I asked because Stokes is supposed to have 75% FARMS or something like that, and yet lots of people seem to deem it an "acceptable" school. The city is in crisis, but what is the solution? The public school system has been in crisis for years, the city seems more prosperous than ever, and yet there is a mad scramble every year to win the lottery of quality public education. What can be done about this? For one parent, maybe they are coming from a selfish place in wanting to create an immersion charter, however, the school will fill a need in the city for quality education. They can't keep anyone out of the charter they create. At least it would provide another option...because waiting for the DC government to do right by the children in this city isn't working. |
Anonymous
| I'm from New Orleans, (which by the way also should not be ignored re Creole and Acadian history/French history in the US, if no one has mentioned it yet) speak some French, have some teaching background in the secondary years (working in IT now) and would love to help in starting up the school. I have read through the entire thread yet, can someone tell me how to join the group? |
Anonymous
Sorry, that should be *haven't* read through the entire thread yet |
Anonymous
Then you should, then get back to us 
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Anonymous
Apologies, I thought someone posted earlier/upthread that the discussion here was to attract attention? Since you obviously have my attention, I was hoping to focus on the work ahead, rather than discussions on DCUM... I guess it's the project manager in me, I like to get to the meat of things quickly. |
Anonymous
| ^ You're not much of a project manager! I agree with poster up-thread- read the thread and get back to us. To summarize (I'm helping you out since you were too lazy to read through it), the group dissolved in its current form. This thread is more or less a hashing and rehashing of what happened in all its nastiness (true to DCUM form). |
Anonymous
| Given the last 2 responses to someone expressing interest, it's no wonder this group never got past step 1. Snarky responses from the get go but spineless when 1 or 2 people express an opinion. People who are bad at relationship building and run from difficult conversations don't have a prayer of really starting a school. |
Anonymous
| What an idiot you are! You have zero reading comprehension schools and yet you call yourself a project manager. For one, no one is interested in starting a school- the group disbanded two years ago (had your dumb ass read, you would know that). Secondly, it's a good thing they did- you had weirdos with weird agendas who wanted to start it and people like you are coming out of no where commenting. You can't read a few pages of the thread to understand that your "interest" is totally displaced at this point, but you want someone to engage you about starting a school? Right.... This is why the charter board needs to step up oversight of the process. Any old dingle berry thinks they're qualified to start a charter. Just glad the disaster this miscreant group wanted to get going was averted and kids were spared their nonsense! |
Anonymous
Actually, I got the answer I needed while getting actual work done, rather than reading through pages and pages of this thread and responses like the last few here. I think I did pretty well  .
That said, given the last few responses, if they had been those of a group starting a school, I would have elected not to work with the group anyway. I totally get that people in this region sometimes act in ways that I consider to be dismissive and rude, but I don't work with those folks unless I absolutely have to. It's also why I only check on DCUM every so often and don't read the entirety of these long threads -- there's lots of good info here, but also a lot of senseless vitriol that I'm just not interested in. Have a great day! 
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Anonymous
| You're way better off! If you want to start a charter you should probably start your own thread asking for interested people. Just don't use the term Haricots Verts ANYWHERE! They're just bad bad bad! |