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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:PK4:
#3 at Thomson
#7 at MV Cook
#24 Capitol Hill Montessori
#31 at Marie Reed, English
#32 at LAMB, Kinsbury
#51 at Marie Reed, DL
#89 at Oyster

These numbers are WAY better than last year’s, but this system is so foreign to me. Any help managing my expectations would be much appreciated.

Where do you live? This list is all over the place in terms of commute.

Currently renting in Adams Morgan. All but CHM and LAMB are currently convenient to home or job, but I'm in a flexible situation right now and almost definitely planning to move.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rising 6th Grade

Sojourner Truth *Matched
DCI Chinese *Not Waitlsted
DCI French *Not Waitlsted
DCI Spanish *Not Waitlsted

My daughter is super happy since Truth was her top choice.

Welcome! My kids are in 7th grade at Truth and they love it.

[Anonymous]

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If you care about Spanish, mundo is not right for you. Stick with LAMB.

You again 🤣

Have never posted this before as far as I can remember. Sorry- I think this is a fact known by many.

Note- this is not a slam against mundo teachers. It is mainly due to people entering immersion schools late in the game with children who don’t speak Spanish.

The misconception that they take all these non- Spanish speaking kids in the upper grade is just not true. A grade or two might take less than a handful of students. Most of the time it’s kids in DCPS immersion schools that are on the waitlist trying to get in.

This was my sense, which is why MVP is pretty near my top choice for my PK4 child who would be coming from Spanish immersion daycare. From the tours I attended pre-COVID, schools seemed to make a point of highlighting that only the youngest kids can enter with little Spanish exposure without having to test.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hi! Appreciate this thread, thanks for sharing.

For PreK3, we got:
Bancroft (Spanish) 29
Marie Reed (Spanish) 20
Powell 8
LAMB Kingsbury 200+ (letting that one go
Cooke 42
Match at Bruce-Monroe

Chance of moving up at Powell or Reed? Neither looks like their respective waitlists moved much at all last few years. Anyone able to tell us more about Bruce-Monroe?

Thanks!

Are you in bounds for Marie Reed? We are and started off a few years ago around 20 on the waitlist and only went higher and higher as the summer went on- they let in students into the older grades that have siblings that get bumped to the top of the waitlist.

We were inbound for Tubman but are juuuust now moving - we'd be inbound for Oyster-Adams if it had PreK3, and we'll be very walkable to Marie Reed. Suspected as much about the lists getting longer rather than shorter....

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
If you care about Spanish, mundo is not right for you. Stick with LAMB.

You again 🤣

Have never posted this before as far as I can remember. Sorry- I think this is a fact known by many.

Note- this is not a slam against mundo teachers. It is mainly due to people entering immersion schools late in the game with children who don’t speak Spanish.

The misconception that they take all these non- Spanish speaking kids in the upper grade is just not true. A grade or two might take less than a handful of students. Most of the time it’s kids in DCPS immersion schools that are on the waitlist trying to get in.

This was my sense, which is why MVP is pretty near my top choice for my PK4 child who would be coming from Spanish immersion daycare. From the tours I attended pre-COVID, schools seemed to make a point of highlighting that only the youngest kids can enter with little Spanish exposure without having to test.

Not taking a position on MV and have no insight on who it admits in later grader or how they do, but this section above is true only for DCPS schools and is not necessarily true for charters (including MV). Charters can't have a proficiency tests. So you likely did hear this (because DCPS schools are supposed to test), but you're applying this incorrectly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
If you care about Spanish, mundo is not right for you. Stick with LAMB.

You again 🤣

Have never posted this before as far as I can remember. Sorry- I think this is a fact known by many.

Note- this is not a slam against mundo teachers. It is mainly due to people entering immersion schools late in the game with children who don’t speak Spanish.

The misconception that they take all these non- Spanish speaking kids in the upper grade is just not true. A grade or two might take less than a handful of students. Most of the time it’s kids in DCPS immersion schools that are on the waitlist trying to get in.

This was my sense, which is why MVP is pretty near my top choice for my PK4 child who would be coming from Spanish immersion daycare. From the tours I attended pre-COVID, schools seemed to make a point of highlighting that only the youngest kids can enter with little Spanish exposure without having to test.

Not taking a position on MV and have no insight on who it admits in later grader or how they do, but this section above is true only for DCPS schools and is not necessarily true for charters (including MV). Charters can't have a proficiency tests. So you likely did hear this (because DCPS schools are supposed to test), but you're applying this incorrectly.

Ah got it, thanks. New to the school system around here. I keep forgetting that charters are a world unto themselves.

[Anonymous]

My IB is Cleveland and I’m at #31 for dual language any chance of me getting in ? And how is that school ?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
If you care about Spanish, mundo is not right for you. Stick with LAMB.

You again 🤣

Have never posted this before as far as I can remember. Sorry- I think this is a fact known by many.

Note- this is not a slam against mundo teachers. It is mainly due to people entering immersion schools late in the game with children who don’t speak Spanish.

The misconception that they take all these non- Spanish speaking kids in the upper grade is just not true. A grade or two might take less than a handful of students. Most of the time it’s kids in DCPS immersion schools that are on the waitlist trying to get in.

This was my sense, which is why MVP is pretty near my top choice for my PK4 child who would be coming from Spanish immersion daycare. From the tours I attended pre-COVID, schools seemed to make a point of highlighting that only the youngest kids can enter with little Spanish exposure without having to test.

Not taking a position on MV and have no insight on who it admits in later grader or how they do, but this section above is true only for DCPS schools and is not necessarily true for charters (including MV). Charters can't have a proficiency tests. So you likely did hear this (because DCPS schools are supposed to test), but you're applying this incorrectly.

Ah got it, thanks. New to the school system around here. I keep forgetting that charters are a world unto themselves.

True that charters can’t have a proficiency test. But it’s also true that most of families on waitlist are coming from DCPS immersion schools.

Why would you put your kid in 3rd or 4th grade with no Spanish background when you know that 50% of instruction is in the language.

[Anonymous]

If you care about Spanish, mundo is not right for you. Stick with LAMB.

I am a native speaker and two neighbor families attend LAMB. They are in upper grades and speak passable conversational Spanish. Definitely not fluent. I know it’s anecdotal, but personally not impressed. My kids do not go to either school so I don’t really care but just wanted to offer the info.

Interesting! OP here. Do you know whether their parents speak Spanish at all? My husband is a native speaker but despite him speaking some Spanish to our son, he (our son) speaks exclusively in English unless prompted. Hopeful that having Spanish at school will help him get to fluency w help from my husband.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you care about Spanish, mundo is not right for you. Stick with LAMB.

I am a native speaker and two neighbor families attend LAMB. They are in upper grades and speak passable conversational Spanish. Definitely not fluent. I know it’s anecdotal, but personally not impressed. My kids do not go to either school so I don’t really care but just wanted to offer the info.

Interesting! OP here. Do you know whether their parents speak Spanish at all? My husband is a native speaker but despite him speaking some Spanish to our son, he (our son) speaks exclusively in English unless prompted. Hopeful that having Spanish at school will help him get to fluency w help from my husband.

Argh, I messed up the quoting

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you care about Spanish, mundo is not right for you. Stick with LAMB.

I am a native speaker and two neighbor families attend LAMB. They are in upper grades and speak passable conversational Spanish. Definitely not fluent. I know it’s anecdotal, but personally not impressed. My kids do not go to either school so I don’t really care but just wanted to offer the info.

Interesting! OP here. Do you know whether their parents speak Spanish at all? My husband is a native speaker but despite him speaking some Spanish to our son, he (our son) speaks exclusively in English unless prompted. Hopeful that having Spanish at school will help him get to fluency w help from my husband.

Argh, I messed up the quoting

Their parents do not.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you care about Spanish, mundo is not right for you. Stick with LAMB.

I am a native speaker and two neighbor families attend LAMB. They are in upper grades and speak passable conversational Spanish. Definitely not fluent. I know it’s anecdotal, but personally not impressed. My kids do not go to either school so I don’t really care but just wanted to offer the info.

Interesting! OP here. Do you know whether their parents speak Spanish at all? My husband is a native speaker but despite him speaking some Spanish to our son, he (our son) speaks exclusively in English unless prompted. Hopeful that having Spanish at school will help him get to fluency w help from my husband.

Argh, I messed up the quoting

Their parents do not.

Any immersion school will really help with your situation. At LAMB are lots and lots of kids like yours (one parent native speaker). They have a definite advantage. You can begin to require your kid to reply in Spanish to your husband, try just ignoring them if they don't haha. At school they will need to learn Spanish literacy and be required to respond in Spanish to teachers and will get used to it.

My kids do not have native speaker parents and as they get older I will definitely need to find more immersion experiences for them outside of school itself. I think the only schools with tons of native speaker kids/ actually ESL kids are those which can select for them, such as DCPS bilingual schools. It's a real problem at all the language charters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PK4:
#3 at Thomson
#7 at MV Cook
#24 Capitol Hill Montessori
#31 at Marie Reed, English
#32 at LAMB, Kinsbury
#51 at Marie Reed, DL
#89 at Oyster

These numbers are WAY better than last year’s, but this system is so foreign to me. Any help managing my expectations would be much appreciated.

Where do you live? This list is all over the place in terms of commute.

Currently renting in Adams Morgan. All but CHM and LAMB are currently convenient to home or job, but I'm in a flexible situation right now and almost definitely planning to move.

what about HD Cooke? I see you had Marie Reed english on your list. Prek4 is an expansion year at Cooke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you care about Spanish, mundo is not right for you. Stick with LAMB.

I am a native speaker and two neighbor families attend LAMB. They are in upper grades and speak passable conversational Spanish. Definitely not fluent. I know it’s anecdotal, but personally not impressed. My kids do not go to either school so I don’t really care but just wanted to offer the info.

Interesting! OP here. Do you know whether their parents speak Spanish at all? My husband is a native speaker but despite him speaking some Spanish to our son, he (our son) speaks exclusively in English unless prompted. Hopeful that having Spanish at school will help him get to fluency w help from my husband.

Passable conversational spanish is actually a pretty good result for a student coming from a monolingual English speaking family. Bilingualism really requires a lot of input and just attending a dual language school is not enough depending on what your goals are. To the PP above - I would recommend making sure your husband is really only speaking 100% Spanish to your son and you starting to do what you can to support/encourage your son responding back to the father in Spanish. Do you know any Spanish at all - could you incorporate Spanish dinners. Try to see what interests your son and move forward in a positive way. It's important to get into the habit of responding back when they are young, but at this point, your husband may want to talk to him about it and why Spanish is important and its important to you guys that he speaks Spanish. Just ignoring him may just turn it into a negative experience. Also a dual language school will help you guys a lot!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PK4:
#3 at Thomson
#7 at MV Cook
#24 Capitol Hill Montessori
#31 at Marie Reed, English
#32 at LAMB, Kingsbury
#51 at Marie Reed, DL
#89 at Oyster

These numbers are WAY better than last year’s, but this system is so foreign to me. Any help managing my expectations would be much appreciated.

Where do you live? This list is all over the place in terms of commute.

Currently renting in Adams Morgan. All but CHM and LAMB are currently convenient to home or job, but I'm in a flexible situation right now and almost definitely planning to move.

what about HD Cooke? I see you had Marie Reed english on your list. Prek4 is an expansion year at Cooke.

I included Marie Reed English only because it's so close and I'd really like to stop paying for daycare . But Spanish is the priority, coming from Spanish immersion daycare and I'd like to stick with it as long as possible. Cap Hill is also only on there because I am a fan of Montessori, but wouldn't choose it over a Spanish option. LAMB is the only one that's truly inconvenient right now, but I have the option of moving if she got in. Any of those numbers look promising?