Mundo verde move

[Anonymous]

Is the MV move confirmed? What's the new address?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is the MV move confirmed? What's the new address?

http://mayor.dc.gov/release/deputy-mayor-education-and-department-general-services-award-jf-cook-school-building-mundo

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would transfer from my current immersion charter to MV because of the new location if 1) I received a spot thru the lottery and 2) if they didn't have an early release day on Wednesday.

Guess you won't be switching then.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hope they come up with a solution. FYI, 1St NW between N St - P St NW is a traffic nightmare every. single. morning due to all the schools there, Dunbar HS and CCPCS, and everyone trying to get on New York Ave and the 395 entrance off NY Ave.

But, this is a green school. These parents would be metro, bus and riding their bikes. Right? They won't add to the carbon footprint.

No, no bikes and certainly not for kids. No bike lanes and too much traffic. You are asking for trouble.

Vs 16th street? How is worse then biking up 16th?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would transfer from my current immersion charter to MV because of the new location if 1) I received a spot thru the lottery and 2) if they didn't have an early release day on Wednesday.

Location aside, why are you so bothered by the early release day? They have aftercare for $15 a day, $60 a month, for that time period if that is all you need. And I believe that is discounted for those without financial means. Moreover, it is to provide consistent teacher training and replaces off days for teacher training in DCPS.

[Anonymous]

Does a bigger location mean more slots for next year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does a bigger location mean more slots for next year?

Yes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would transfer from my current immersion charter to MV because of the new location if 1) I received a spot thru the lottery and 2) if they didn't have an early release day on Wednesday.

Guess you won't be switching then.

Not at all. I would have been nicer to be closer to work-not that my current commute is bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hope they come up with a solution. FYI, 1St NW between N St - P St NW is a traffic nightmare every. single. morning due to all the schools there, Dunbar HS and CCPCS, and everyone trying to get on New York Ave and the 395 entrance off NY Ave.

But, this is a green school. These parents would be metro, bus and riding their bikes. Right? They won't add to the carbon footprint.

No, no bikes and certainly not for kids. No bike lanes and too much traffic. You are asking for trouble.

Vs 16th street? How is worse then biking up 16th?

Why not come see First St NW and P around 8:30 AM when school will be starting... You have never seen First St NW if you think it's like 16th...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Plus the bus to the new location surely will not be free. I believe YY's is around $200/month.

And I'm sure a lot of YY parents from NW and the Hill can afford that. Nice for them, but irrelevant. If MV is serious about keeping the Hispanic families who live near the current location, they will need to offer a bus service - gratis. If it's not free, then many families simply can't do it.

Doesn't Potomac Lighthouse offer free bus service?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Plus the bus to the new location surely will not be free. I believe YY's is around $200/month.

And I'm sure a lot of YY parents from NW and the Hill can afford that. Nice for them, but irrelevant. If MV is serious about keeping the Hispanic families who live near the current location, they will need to offer a bus service - gratis. If it's not free, then many families simply can't do it.

Doesn't Potomac Lighthouse offer free bus service?

Potomac Lighthouse isn't even in the same category as MV. And I'm not even an MV parent saying that.

MV will have no problem getting people to come to their new location. If a parent doesn't want to keep their child at MV, there are 800 people behind them on the waitlist who will happily take their place. Done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Plus the bus to the new location surely will not be free. I believe YY's is around $200/month.

And I'm sure a lot of YY parents from NW and the Hill can afford that. Nice for them, but irrelevant. If MV is serious about keeping the Hispanic families who live near the current location, they will need to offer a bus service - gratis. If it's not free, then many families simply can't do it.

Doesn't Potomac Lighthouse offer free bus service?

Potomac Lighthouse isn't even in the same category as MV. And I'm not even an MV parent saying that.

MV will have no problem getting people to come to their new location. If a parent doesn't want to keep their child at MV, there are 800 people behind them on the waitlist who will happily take their place. Done.

You're missing the point entirely.

Potomac Lighthouse serves a lot of low income families, and makes it possible for them to attend by offering a bus service. Most (though not all) of the native Spanish speakers at MV come from the neighborhood around the school and are lower income. The school has a wonderful culture as a result of the genuine mix across culture and class lines. That is a good thing, and worth preserving IMHO.

Unfortunately, the new location doesn't have a similarly large community of native Spanish-speakers to contribute to that lively mix. If MV is serious about retaining the families who add so much to the community, it's going to need to do something to make that easy for them to stay. Can they be replaced in number by families who have no problem driving because they have a car? Sure. Can they be replaced in number by families who can afford an expensive bus service? Probably. But they can't be replaced in kind with families for home Spanish is a native language, and who are sharing their Latin culture - as opposed to learning it. It sounds like you don't think that loss is a very big deal, but I disagree. I think it would be a terrible loss, and I'd like to see some effort and outreach to ensure that doesn't happen.

We'll just agree to disagree, m'kay?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Plus the bus to the new location surely will not be free. I believe YY's is around $200/month.

And I'm sure a lot of YY parents from NW and the Hill can afford that. Nice for them, but irrelevant. If MV is serious about keeping the Hispanic families who live near the current location, they will need to offer a bus service - gratis. If it's not free, then many families simply can't do it.

Doesn't Potomac Lighthouse offer free bus service?

Potomac Lighthouse isn't even in the same category as MV. And I'm not even an MV parent saying that.

MV will have no problem getting people to come to their new location. If a parent doesn't want to keep their child at MV, there are 800 people behind them on the waitlist who will happily take their place. Done.

You're missing the point entirely.

Potomac Lighthouse serves a lot of low income families, and makes it possible for them to attend by offering a bus service. Most (though not all) of the native Spanish speakers at MV come from the neighborhood around the school and are lower income. The school has a wonderful culture as a result of the genuine mix across culture and class lines. That is a good thing, and worth preserving IMHO.

Unfortunately, the new location doesn't have a similarly large community of native Spanish-speakers to contribute to that lively mix. If MV is serious about retaining the families who add so much to the community, it's going to need to do something to make that easy for them to stay. Can they be replaced in number by families who have no problem driving because they have a car? Sure. Can they be replaced in number by families who can afford an expensive bus service? Probably. But they can't be replaced in kind with families for home Spanish is a native language, and who are sharing their Latin culture - as opposed to learning it. It sounds like you don't think that loss is a very big deal, but I disagree. I think it would be a terrible loss, and I'd like to see some effort and outreach to ensure that doesn't happen.

We'll just agree to disagree, m'kay?

MV was a charter from day 1, not a neighborhood school, so I doubt that a significant proportion of Spanish-speaking families happened to live next to it. Having said that, any relocation is traumatic, even for such a young charter, so I hope the transition goes well.

[Anonymous]

MV wasn't always in their current location. With that being said I'm sure they had Native speakers at their previous location. The PP is making it seem like MV is a neighborhood school which is serving the current population in Columbia Heights. It's a charter with a lottery therefore it's free game with native speakers an non native speakers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Plus the bus to the new location surely will not be free. I believe YY's is around $200/month.

And I'm sure a lot of YY parents from NW and the Hill can afford that. Nice for them, but irrelevant. If MV is serious about keeping the Hispanic families who live near the current location, they will need to offer a bus service - gratis. If it's not free, then many families simply can't do it.

Doesn't Potomac Lighthouse offer free bus service?

I don't know if what you are saying is actually true. I have talked to several Hispanic families at MV that are local or take public trans to the school and asked if the move is an issue. Most expressed their intention to stay and take public trans to the new location. Like you, I think maintaining the balance of native spanish-speaking families is important and have mentioned to the MV admins that they should directly address this issue by just asking the families if the new location is feasible and what they would need to stay. Until that happens, I think it is premature to assume that a free bus is necessary (although that would be great) for families to stay or no deal. I ride the metro with many of these families and they like other families around the city (Wards 3, 7 and 8) that attend MV value the school and may go the extra mile to get there.