East of the River Options

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've been really unsatisfied with our experience at Lee East End this year, but I'm having trouble finding other options that would be better to apply for next year.

I toured Stokes East End before the pandemic and I was appalled by the behaviors I saw - both from students and staff. Any idea how it's going these days?

Global Citizens could be an option, but I also have no idea how it is actually going and they don't seem to have any in person tours available right now.

Wildflower Riverseed won't have 2nd grade next year, which is what my eldest will need. I really wish they did because this would be the perfect solution.

I'm not interested in any of the "no excuses" type schools like KIPP, DC Scholars, Rocketship, etc.

Is there anything I'm missing? Are we just stuck?

I don’t see why you shouldn’t just stay and try to make Lee East End better?

I mean, if everybody just runs from the school, how is it ever supposed to improve?

It is beyond naive to think one family staying in an untenable situation can improve a school. It’s stuck in some relic of thinking from 20 years ago was proven idiotic back then.

[Anonymous]

Check out I Dream: https://www.idreampcs.org/

[Anonymous]

My child attended KIPP (shaw campus though), and while it has a really bad reputation among white parents, I didn't find it to be anything like it's reputation. The teachers were loving, kind, expectations were age appropriate, and the strategies for getting kids to meet expectations were loving and fun. We did ultimately move to VA after my child's 6th grade year, and the middle school wasn't a great fit, but for early education and elementary it was fantastic.

I don't have experience with the EOTR campuses though, and my child is now in high school, so my experience is fairly dated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've been really unsatisfied with our experience at Lee East End this year, but I'm having trouble finding other options that would be better to apply for next year.

I toured Stokes East End before the pandemic and I was appalled by the behaviors I saw - both from students and staff. Any idea how it's going these days?

Global Citizens could be an option, but I also have no idea how it is actually going and they don't seem to have any in person tours available right now.

Wildflower Riverseed won't have 2nd grade next year, which is what my eldest will need. I really wish they did because this would be the perfect solution.

I'm not interested in any of the "no excuses" type schools like KIPP, DC Scholars, Rocketship, etc.

Is there anything I'm missing? Are we just stuck?

I don’t see why you shouldn’t just stay and try to make Lee East End better?

I mean, if everybody just runs from the school, how is it ever supposed to improve?

Because I already have a full time job. How is it in my child’s best interest to suffer in the near term while I expend energy and resources to lay seed to improvements that he will never enjoy.
This is not how I choose to spend my limited time and bandwidth; the ROI makes no sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I toured Stokes East End before the pandemic and I was appalled by the behaviors I saw - both from students and staff. Any idea how it's going these days?

Stokes EE parent here, have had kids there since they first opened. There does seem to be a person here on DCUM who keeps talking about the "appalling" things they saw at Stokes during a pre-pandemic visit whenever anyone mentions the school - probably you. I can only speak to our own experience: other than staying closed for way too long during COVID, we've been happy. It's been a nurturing environment for the kids, they enjoy going, and by all apparent standards are doing well academically. Great parent community too and active PTA. Is it perfect? Of course not, but they haven't given us a reason to leave.

[Anonymous]

Peace! I know wl I'm late to the conversation, but if you happen to still be searching, there is a new Montessori microschool EOTR-- The School of Harvest. It has a distinctive focus on heritage, as well as land-based education. They have some parent information sessions coming up if you're interested. Check them out in ig @theschoolofharvest or email them at [e-mail]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Peace! I know wl I'm late to the conversation, but if you happen to still be searching, there is a new Montessori microschool EOTR-- The School of Harvest. It has a distinctive focus on heritage, as well as land-based education. They have some parent information sessions coming up if you're interested. Check them out in ig @theschoolofharvest or email them at [e-mail]

Take your advertising to the private school board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Peace! I know wl I'm late to the conversation, but if you happen to still be searching, there is a new Montessori microschool EOTR-- The School of Harvest. It has a distinctive focus on heritage, as well as land-based education. They have some parent information sessions coming up if you're interested. Check them out in ig @theschoolofharvest or email them at [e-mail]

Little late to the game. The time to fleece parents with buzz words and nonsense in lieu of education was a couple years ago. Seriously. WTH does the bolded even mean? Are those things goona get my kid into college?

[Anonymous]

Cracks me up someone mentioning a private school option on a public school forum. Not to mention the fact that it’s brand new with barely any grade levels.