Mundo Verde experiences

[Anonymous]

No kid at MV, but I am familiar with the Calle ocho principal Michelle from her time at lamb. She was absolutely amazing and would be reason enough to attend Calle ocho for us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No kid at MV, but I am familiar with the Calle ocho principal Michelle from her time at lamb. She was absolutely amazing and would be reason enough to attend Calle ocho for us.

+1. know Lamb family who says great things about her.

The new middle school principal at DCI that started last year looks to be great too!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No kid at MV, but I am familiar with the Calle ocho principal Michelle from her time at lamb. She was absolutely amazing and would be reason enough to attend Calle ocho for us.

I interacted with Michelle during my time at LAMB and found her really kid-focused and easy to work with.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No kid at MV, but I am familiar with the Calle ocho principal Michelle from her time at lamb. She was absolutely amazing and would be reason enough to attend Calle ocho for us.

I interacted with Michelle during my time at LAMB and found her really kid-focused and easy to work with.

She knew the name of each of my kids, and like really knew them. She would call me back immediately. She resolved things with grace and kindness. I miss her every day. Losing Michelle was a huge loss for LAMB.

[Anonymous]

We have been happy with Mundo (Cook) and DCI, with one kid in each. 7th grader did Pk-5 at Mundo and is happy at DCI taking advanced math, playing sports, and making honor role. Elem age kid loves the teachers and community at Mundo and is doing very well in Math and Spanish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No kid at MV, but I am familiar with the Calle ocho principal Michelle from her time at lamb. She was absolutely amazing and would be reason enough to attend Calle ocho for us.

+1. know Lamb family who says great things about her.

The new middle school principal at DCI that started last year looks to be great too!

Agree about the love for Michelle as well as Dr Galpin at DCI. Sadly Dr Galpin is leaving the country due to trump’s anti trans policies. Huge loss for DCI.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I will take my 50% chance at DCI than my 100% chance at MacFarland.

THIS. My kid is in 2nd now at Calle Ocho and we well knew that there wasn't a guarantee for DCI but Im am still happy to have a shot at DCI over Brookland Middle. And fwiw- DCI is not what keeps us at Mundo, we are very happy there.

+1000. Plus if you are serious about spanish, it’s no secret that MV has the strongest spanish program with a very large portion of educated native speaking families.

Also, we don’t speak any spanish and was shocked to learn how many non-hispanic families in our class when we started had at least 1 parent who was fluent in the language (study abroad, lived abroad, peace corps, etc…)

So you don’t speak Spanish, but you know MV has the strongest Spanish program? How do MV boosters come up with this claim? Please provide some data to support it. Otherwise, it just appears to be an excuse for the testing data that actually exists.

No axe to grind with MV, just annoyed their boosters always try to pump the school by bad-mouthing others.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I will take my 50% chance at DCI than my 100% chance at MacFarland.

THIS. My kid is in 2nd now at Calle Ocho and we well knew that there wasn't a guarantee for DCI but Im am still happy to have a shot at DCI over Brookland Middle. And fwiw- DCI is not what keeps us at Mundo, we are very happy there.

+1000. Plus if you are serious about spanish, it’s no secret that MV has the strongest spanish program with a very large portion of educated native speaking families.

Also, we don’t speak any spanish and was shocked to learn how many non-hispanic families in our class when we started had at least 1 parent who was fluent in the language (study abroad, lived abroad, peace corps, etc…)

So you don’t speak Spanish, but you know MV has the strongest Spanish program? How do MV boosters come up with this claim? Please provide some data to support it. Otherwise, it just appears to be an excuse for the testing data that actually exists.

No axe to grind with MV, just annoyed their boosters always try to pump the school by bad-mouthing others.

I have a kid at another DCUMD well loved bilingual charter and it’s embarrassing how little Spanish the kids at our school speak. We are a Spanish speaking family and have to really work on Spanish outside of school because it’s so poor. The Spanish teacher speaks to the kids in English a lot of the time. I have friends with kids at MV and I’m definitely more impressed with their Spanish instruction. The school certainly isn’t perfect but that’s a bonus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will take my 50% chance at DCI than my 100% chance at MacFarland.

THIS. My kid is in 2nd now at Calle Ocho and we well knew that there wasn't a guarantee for DCI but Im am still happy to have a shot at DCI over Brookland Middle. And fwiw- DCI is not what keeps us at Mundo, we are very happy there.

+1000. Plus if you are serious about spanish, it’s no secret that MV has the strongest spanish program with a very large portion of educated native speaking families.

Also, we don’t speak any spanish and was shocked to learn how many non-hispanic families in our class when we started had at least 1 parent who was fluent in the language (study abroad, lived abroad, peace corps, etc…)

So you don’t speak Spanish, but you know MV has the strongest Spanish program? How do MV boosters come up with this claim? Please provide some data to support it. Otherwise, it just appears to be an excuse for the testing data that actually exists.

No axe to grind with MV, just annoyed their boosters always try to pump the school by bad-mouthing others.

PP here. No we don’t speak spanish but it’s no secret which kids get placed in the higher tracks at DCI.

Also poster above is correct. It’s spanish all the time and only spanish with the spanish teacher. We had a native speaking family from DCPS bilingual with a kid who started MV in 2nd grade and mom told us that her kid was behind in spanish. He did eventually get caught up by the end of the year with help from her and family.

Lastly, MV doesn’t digress and put spanish on the back burner like so many other schools in the upper grades where the focus is English and math is taught in only English. They are still faithful to their model of 50% english and spanish with all instruction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will take my 50% chance at DCI than my 100% chance at MacFarland.

THIS. My kid is in 2nd now at Calle Ocho and we well knew that there wasn't a guarantee for DCI but Im am still happy to have a shot at DCI over Brookland Middle. And fwiw- DCI is not what keeps us at Mundo, we are very happy there.

+1000. Plus if you are serious about spanish, it’s no secret that MV has the strongest spanish program with a very large portion of educated native speaking families.

Also, we don’t speak any spanish and was shocked to learn how many non-hispanic families in our class when we started had at least 1 parent who was fluent in the language (study abroad, lived abroad, peace corps, etc…)

So you don’t speak Spanish, but you know MV has the strongest Spanish program? How do MV boosters come up with this claim? Please provide some data to support it. Otherwise, it just appears to be an excuse for the testing data that actually exists.

No axe to grind with MV, just annoyed their boosters always try to pump the school by bad-mouthing others.

I have a kid at another DCUMD well loved bilingual charter and it’s embarrassing how little Spanish the kids at our school speak. We are a Spanish speaking family and have to really work on Spanish outside of school because it’s so poor. The Spanish teacher speaks to the kids in English a lot of the time. I have friends with kids at MV and I’m definitely more impressed with their Spanish instruction. The school certainly isn’t perfect but that’s a bonus.

What charter?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will take my 50% chance at DCI than my 100% chance at MacFarland.

THIS. My kid is in 2nd now at Calle Ocho and we well knew that there wasn't a guarantee for DCI but Im am still happy to have a shot at DCI over Brookland Middle. And fwiw- DCI is not what keeps us at Mundo, we are very happy there.

+1000. Plus if you are serious about spanish, it’s no secret that MV has the strongest spanish program with a very large portion of educated native speaking families.

Also, we don’t speak any spanish and was shocked to learn how many non-hispanic families in our class when we started had at least 1 parent who was fluent in the language (study abroad, lived abroad, peace corps, etc…)

So you don’t speak Spanish, but you know MV has the strongest Spanish program? How do MV boosters come up with this claim? Please provide some data to support it. Otherwise, it just appears to be an excuse for the testing data that actually exists.

No axe to grind with MV, just annoyed their boosters always try to pump the school by bad-mouthing others.

I have a kid at another DCUMD well loved bilingual charter and it’s embarrassing how little Spanish the kids at our school speak. We are a Spanish speaking family and have to really work on Spanish outside of school because it’s so poor. The Spanish teacher speaks to the kids in English a lot of the time. I have friends with kids at MV and I’m definitely more impressed with their Spanish instruction. The school certainly isn’t perfect but that’s a bonus.

What charter?

DCB

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will take my 50% chance at DCI than my 100% chance at MacFarland.

THIS. My kid is in 2nd now at Calle Ocho and we well knew that there wasn't a guarantee for DCI but Im am still happy to have a shot at DCI over Brookland Middle. And fwiw- DCI is not what keeps us at Mundo, we are very happy there.

+1000. Plus if you are serious about spanish, it’s no secret that MV has the strongest spanish program with a very large portion of educated native speaking families.

Also, we don’t speak any spanish and was shocked to learn how many non-hispanic families in our class when we started had at least 1 parent who was fluent in the language (study abroad, lived abroad, peace corps, etc…)

So you don’t speak Spanish, but you know MV has the strongest Spanish program? How do MV boosters come up with this claim? Please provide some data to support it. Otherwise, it just appears to be an excuse for the testing data that actually exists.

No axe to grind with MV, just annoyed their boosters always try to pump the school by bad-mouthing others.

PP here. No we don’t speak spanish but it’s no secret which kids get placed in the higher tracks at DCI.

Also poster above is correct. It’s spanish all the time and only spanish with the spanish teacher. We had a native speaking family from DCPS bilingual with a kid who started MV in 2nd grade and mom told us that her kid was behind in spanish. He did eventually get caught up by the end of the year with help from her and family.

Lastly, MV doesn’t digress and put spanish on the back burner like so many other schools in the upper grades where the focus is English and math is taught in only English. They are still faithful to their model of 50% english and spanish with all instruction.

Concerns understood but the grass is not always greener.