Language instruction at CMI in the upper elementary grades

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a side note, at 10:30 at night, I'm not really spending my time looking up waitlist numbers and PARCC scores for other schools my child doesn't attend. That seems...obsessive.

Seems CMI has a stalker!

Lots of people post scores and demographics on here, and thank goodness they do. It makes the discussion so much more interesting and meaningful.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sock puppet...

Nope. Lots of people see CMI for what it is- a joke.

With 1000 people on the wait list, don't apply.

CMI had under 400 total applicants ranking from 1-12 last year.

For what grade?

There were 908 total people on the waitlists for CMI last year. Are you just referring to PS3. Putting your info in bold doesn't make it right.

You know, I was going to look up how many people were on the waitlist for last year, when I got stuck looking at the recent PARCC scores:

Math

Student Proficiency Levels

8% Did not yet meet expectations
35% Partially met expectations
31% Approached expectations
27% Met expectations
0% Exceeded expectation

ELA

Student Proficiency Levels

15% Did not yet meet expectations
19% Partially met expectations
27% Approached expectations
31% Met expectations
8% Exceeded expectation


YIKES!!!!!!!!

30% Special Needs.
For a school with relatively low levels of poverty, it doesn't perform that much better than some EOTP schools. Why again is it considered a HRCS?

[Anonymous]

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30% Special Needs.
For a school with relatively low levels of poverty, it doesn't perform that much better than some EOTP schools. Why again is it considered a HRCS?

Aren't special needs accommodated on the tests?

[Anonymous]

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30% Special Needs.
For a school with relatively low levels of poverty, it doesn't perform that much better than some EOTP schools. Why again is it considered a HRCS?

Aren't special needs accommodated on the tests?

Yes, so that's not a very good excuse CMI.

[Anonymous]

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30% Special Needs.
For a school with relatively low levels of poverty, it doesn't perform that much better than some EOTP schools. Why again is it considered a HRCS?

Aren't special needs accommodated on the tests?

There are some accommodations available - extended time, a scribe - that work for some disabilities. For children with intellectual disabilities those don't make a huge amount of difference.

No one is saying it's an excuse. In fact far more than 30% of the children at CMI are lower than a 4 and some of the children with disabilities likely got a 4 or 5. But it is a a legitimate factor to take into consideration, just like economically disadvantaged.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sock puppet...

Nope. Lots of people see CMI for what it is- a joke.

With 1000 people on the wait list, don't apply.

CMI had under 400 total applicants ranking from 1-12 last year.

For what grade?

There were 908 total people on the waitlists for CMI last year. Are you just referring to PS3. Putting your info in bold doesn't make it right.

You know, I was going to look up how many people were on the waitlist for last year, when I got stuck looking at the recent PARCC scores:

Math

Student Proficiency Levels

8% Did not yet meet expectations
35% Partially met expectations
31% Approached expectations
27% Met expectations
0% Exceeded expectation

ELA

Student Proficiency Levels

15% Did not yet meet expectations
19% Partially met expectations
27% Approached expectations
31% Met expectations
8% Exceeded expectation


YIKES!!!!!!!!

30% Special Needs.
For a school with relatively low levels of poverty, it doesn't perform that much better than some EOTP schools. Why again is it considered a HRCS?

HRCS on Dscum = School that White People Like.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sock puppet...

Nope. Lots of people see CMI for what it is- a joke.

With 1000 people on the wait list, don't apply.

CMI had under 400 total applicants ranking from 1-12 last year.

For what grade?

There were 908 total people on the waitlists for CMI last year. Are you just referring to PS3. Putting your info in bold doesn't make it right.

You know, I was going to look up how many people were on the waitlist for last year, when I got stuck looking at the recent PARCC scores:

Math

Student Proficiency Levels

8% Did not yet meet expectations
35% Partially met expectations
31% Approached expectations
27% Met expectations
0% Exceeded expectation

ELA

Student Proficiency Levels

15% Did not yet meet expectations
19% Partially met expectations
27% Approached expectations
31% Met expectations
8% Exceeded expectation


YIKES!!!!!!!!

30% Special Needs.
For a school with relatively low levels of poverty, it doesn't perform that much better than some EOTP schools. Why again is it considered a HRCS?

HRCS on Dscum = School that White People Like.


Jesus. LOTS of people like CMI, including black and brown people. My daughter attends CMI and about half of her class is non-white. The non-white kids are mostly black, with a few Latino and Asian kids. The parents at CMI are enthusiastic and happy to have our kids there, and we are lots of different races and colors.

[Anonymous]

CMI Parents: seriously, don't feed into this troll.

[Anonymous]

Not CMI parent (but at similar charter with similar test results and demos). I agree, stop feeding the troll. I have been following this thread because I am not a huge fan of our language exposure. I prefer that it be reduced in favor of more recess, music or physical activity. Anyway, I have no doubt that CMI will have test scores similar to YY and Lamb. It takes a while for test scores to reflect what's going on in the school. It's not going to be year 1 or 2 of testing. In fact, my guess is that you won't get true picture of the test performance until the founding PSers are in 3-5th grade. For our school, that will be next 1-3 years, CMI I think is about the same. The truth of the matter is these charters are still outperforming most of our neighborhood DCPS schools. When you compare subgroups (including SPed, FARM, minority and white), you will see that these schools are on par with "JKLM/WOTP" and kicking the rest of DCPS' butt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a side note, at 10:30 at night, I'm not really spending my time looking up waitlist numbers and PARCC scores for other schools my child doesn't attend. That seems...obsessive.

Seems CMI has a stalker!

Not if they were looking up the number of people on the waitlist to see what their chances are (because 800 people on a PK waitlist is what LAMB, etc get and that's ridiculous), for their PKer, and then they saw the test scores and were turned off.

Notice that it is always the last resort of a desperate school parent to claim they have a stalker. It looks like most of the posts were from different people.

Your school seems fine, whatever, but the parents seem defensive and mean. Hopefully this is just the anonymous posting/DCUM effect.

[Anonymous]

I just caught up with this thread. People can and should have their own opinions about any school, and everyone's free to express them here. But the determination and repetition with which some people post stuff like this criticism of language exposure DOES indicate a troll.

Easiest solution to hating their language exposure: Don't apply, don't attend. Problem: SOLVED.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As a side note, at 10:30 at night, I'm not really spending my time looking up waitlist numbers and PARCC scores for other schools my child doesn't attend. That seems...obsessive.

Seems CMI has a stalker!

Not if they were looking up the number of people on the waitlist to see what their chances are (because 800 people on a PK waitlist is what LAMB, etc get and that's ridiculous), for their PKer, and then they saw the test scores and were turned off.

Notice that it is always the last resort of a desperate school parent to claim they have a stalker. It looks like most of the posts were from different people.

Your school seems fine, whatever, but the parents seem defensive and mean. Hopefully this is just the anonymous posting/DCUM effect.

How many CMI parents do you actually know? Are you inferring from an anonymous blog that all of these responses come from CMI parents? Really?

[Anonymous]

I know a few CMI parents and they all seem very nice. They seem to do everything together - and a bit on the crunchy side. But nice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why two different languages, that's bizarre. Have parents choose one and stick with it throughout the years at the school.

CMI parent here. I'm happy for my child to get the exposure then choose for herself what language she is interested in studying in depth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know a few CMI parents and they all seem very nice. They seem to do everything together - and a bit on the crunchy side. But nice.

Definitely clubby, but in an icky exlclusive way. If you're not in, you're not "in".