Why are HRCS so popular? Test scores stink.

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Anonymous wrote:I wrote the Lol post. I thought the previous post was funny but i didn't write it. Sorry if I offended anyone.

I know you LOL poster - and I think you are awesome. LOVE YOU!

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Anonymous wrote:Please. DCPS won't support strong neighborhood MS programs outside the Deal District. That's not CM's fault.

Sorry, what are you trying to say? Is it DCPS --> neighborhood MS --> Deal --> ?CMI?

Everyone knows that DCPS sucks for MS. Honestly, the only reason Deal supposedly doesn't suck is that it is the size of a small town so it can offer "something for everyone" (but the price that your child's critical adolescent years are spent in a small town).

CMI might be a good alternative MS for SN students and homeschooled students if it finds its niche. If it wants to compete to be the Costco of Middle Schools, Deal already owns that position.

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Anonymous wrote:Please. DCPS won't support strong neighborhood MS programs outside the Deal District. That's not CM's fault.

Sorry, what are you trying to say? Is it DCPS --> neighborhood MS --> Deal --> ?CMI?

Everyone knows that DCPS sucks for MS. Honestly, the only reason Deal supposedly doesn't suck is that it is the size of a small town so it can offer "something for everyone" (but the price that your child's critical adolescent years are spent in a small town).

CMI might be a good alternative MS for SN students and homeschooled students if it finds its niche. If it wants to compete to be the Costco of Middle Schools, Deal already owns that position.

There is a middle ground between the two. You do realize that right?

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Anonymous wrote:Please. DCPS won't support strong neighborhood MS programs outside the Deal District. That's not CM's fault.

Sorry, what are you trying to say? Is it DCPS --> neighborhood MS --> Deal --> ?CMI?

Everyone knows that DCPS sucks for MS. Honestly, the only reason Deal supposedly doesn't suck is that it is the size of a small town so it can offer "something for everyone" (but the price that your child's critical adolescent years are spent in a small town).

CMI might be a good alternative MS for SN students and homeschooled students if it finds its niche. If it wants to compete to be the Costco of Middle Schools, Deal already owns that position.

There is a middle ground between the two. You do realize that right?

Of course, but only Latin, DCI, and Basis are trying to do that. DCPS is foundering, and spending tens or hundreds of millions to prove its inability to deliver.

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+1 DCPS is foundering and needs to step up to the plate. It should not be the responsibility of small charter schools like CMI, ITS, or 2 rivers who everyone is crucifying because they can't handle a load (that wasn't their load in the first place). Great that there are schools like Latin, DCI, and BASIS, but DCPS needs to step up to the plate.

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Anonymous wrote:Every time I see this thread I think it is asking about Hillary!

I thought it was a Human Rights Commission! Does every thing need the exact same initials?

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Anonymous wrote:I wrote the Lol post. I thought the previous post was funny but i didn't write it. Sorry if I offended anyone.

I know you LOL poster - and I think you are awesome. LOVE YOU!

Hilarious again. No one is going to believe that you personally know the LOL poster unless you are the LOL poster.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow - CMI must be a heck of a place if it can turn TWO general threads into CMI specific only.

It is hard for parents (who love their school) not to respond when disgruntled parents spread misinformation in a public forum. That said, folks are raising valid concerns about the CMI MS. It is tough to be the first class at a new school. However the MS has a fantastic team working very hard to make it a great program. Those of us with younger kids at the school are watching closely and hoping (and expecting) the kinks to be worked out by the time our kids get there.

It seems to be one poster.

I was wondering that, myself. It does seem to be 1 parent responding to themselves. They post links & less than a minute later, post responses like "great links" in less time that someone could have opened the link and read what they were talking about. I am having a hard time keeping up. And, then that same person posts things "pretending" to know other posters in real life when many posters are contributing without attending the school. Plus, CMI has hundreds of kids with parents, grand-parents, guardians, nannies, etc. That PP is creepy.

No, it's definitely more than one poster.

There is obviously more than objector to the kool-aid, and you're not doing yourselves any favors by pretending otherwise. At least two them appear to be current CMI parents who are intent on moving up and out by 4th grade.

Personally, I'm an outsider skeptic regarding the MS. I wish the school well, I just frankly disbelieve that the resources (human and capital) are possible to provide an excellent, generalized MS. My family is at a point where we are evaluating all of our options for MS. I've done a lot of research, and CM cannot come close to pulling it off. We know we could easily lottery into CM's MS and aren't interested. We do have a family friend with an SN child, and that (super smart, btw) child would be a good fit at CM. Why? Because CM's strengths - particularly for MS - are the small class sizes, the close and familiar environment, the dedication to the child's emotional development.

As long as CM stays true to its mission for SN kids, then its MS will be a success. The idea that it will be some sort of fancy little private school is a delusion. Get over it fast.

That may be true, but I'm a current CMI parent who is not an objector to the kool-aid, nor do I necessarily agree with the objectors. I would like to learn more about it. I hope there is a meeting to give the younger grades information and a tour of the new MS so we can get knowledge outside of the DCUM threads. The younger grade parents have no information about the MS, although it may have been discussed at the first CFA meeting that I was unable to attend.

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Anonymous wrote:+1 DCPS is foundering and needs to step up to the plate. It should not be the responsibility of small charter schools like CMI, ITS, or 2 rivers who everyone is crucifying because they can't handle a load (that wasn't their load in the first place). Great that there are schools like Latin, DCI, and BASIS, but DCPS needs to step up to the plate.

+2. But I heard Macfarland is supposed to be good, so maybe DCPS is stepping up to the plate. Anyone know about this option and whether it's open to non-IB students?

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Anonymous wrote:+1 DCPS is foundering and needs to step up to the plate. It should not be the responsibility of small charter schools like CMI, ITS, or 2 rivers who everyone is crucifying because they can't handle a load (that wasn't their load in the first place). Great that there are schools like Latin, DCI, and BASIS, but DCPS needs to step up to the plate.

+2. But I heard Macfarland is supposed to be good, so maybe DCPS is stepping up to the plate. Anyone know about this option and whether it's open to non-IB students?

It is open this fall on a limited basis - just to students coming from particular DCPS immersion programs

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wrote the Lol post. I thought the previous post was funny but i didn't write it. Sorry if I offended anyone.

I know you LOL poster - and I think you are awesome. LOVE YOU!

Hilarious again. No one is going to believe that you personally know the LOL poster unless you are the LOL poster.

No one? Not one single person? You seem very invested in this thread. Maybe, take a yoga class or something.

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Anonymous wrote:+1 DCPS is foundering and needs to step up to the plate. It should not be the responsibility of small charter schools like CMI, ITS, or 2 rivers who everyone is crucifying because they can't handle a load (that wasn't their load in the first place). Great that there are schools like Latin, DCI, and BASIS, but DCPS needs to step up to the plate.

+2. But I heard Macfarland is supposed to be good, so maybe DCPS is stepping up to the plate. Anyone know about this option and whether it's open to non-IB students?

Eastern HS on the Hill is an IB school. That was an enormous investment! It takes 3 years and lots of $$ to get IB status, and yet the Hill (the higher SES families, not the section 8 housing) has not embraced it, any more than Jefferson or Elliot-Hine or even Stuart Hobson has been embraced.

Brookland Middle is a lovely building. Has it succeeded in attracting the higher SES neighborhood children? Those whose families are informed and have options? No, no it has not. Charters continue to thrive in Brookland because they offer more than DCPS is willing or able to provide.

If you've lived in DC long enough to have a cup of coffee, you know that DCPS's latest favorite way to waste money is $150million on a school with 400 students. AKA: Roosevelt HS.

This being DC, there's no problem too big for us to pillage the taxpayers in order to flush their money for turds.

Sure. Get excited about MacFarland! Maybe this roll of the dice will come out wonderfully?

In the meantime, the smart back-up plan is charter or private or suburbs.

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All you that complain about renovating a school with 400 students, what do you want the city to do with these schools? Shut them down and send all the kids to wilson? Or let the 400 kids stay in a school that's falling apart?

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Anonymous wrote:All you that complain about renovating a school with 400 students, what do you want the city to do with these schools? Shut them down and send all the kids to wilson? Or let the 400 kids stay in a school that's falling apart?

We want the students zoned for Coolidge to be rezoned to Roosevelt, which is less than 2 miles away.

Most students IB for Coolidge already exercise choice and go to charters or Banneker or McKinley. If you ride the red line from Takoma or Ft Totten you can see for yourself. Mobbed with kids going anywhere but Coolidge.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:+1 DCPS is foundering and needs to step up to the plate. It should not be the responsibility of small charter schools like CMI, ITS, or 2 rivers who everyone is crucifying because they can't handle a load (that wasn't their load in the first place). Great that there are schools like Latin, DCI, and BASIS, but DCPS needs to step up to the plate.

+2. But I heard Macfarland is supposed to be good, so maybe DCPS is stepping up to the plate. Anyone know about this option and whether it's open to non-IB students?

Eastern HS on the Hill is an IB school. That was an enormous investment! It takes 3 years and lots of $$ to get IB status, and yet the Hill (the higher SES families, not the section 8 housing) has not embraced it, any more than Jefferson or Elliot-Hine or even Stuart Hobson has been embraced.

Brookland Middle is a lovely building. Has it succeeded in attracting the higher SES neighborhood children? Those whose families are informed and have options? No, no it has not. Charters continue to thrive in Brookland because they offer more than DCPS is willing or able to provide.

If you've lived in DC long enough to have a cup of coffee, you know that DCPS's latest favorite way to waste money is $150million on a school with 400 students. AKA: Roosevelt HS.

This being DC, there's no problem too big for us to pillage the taxpayers in order to flush their money for turds.

Sure. Get excited about MacFarland! Maybe this roll of the dice will come out wonderfully?

In the meantime, the smart back-up plan is charter or private or suburbs.

To be fair to Brookland Middle, at least in Brookland proper, there are about 60 kids over 5th grade, and about 6000 under the age of three (at least it feels like it)