Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It started as a strand program many years ago. It is now in the process of becoming a full-school program. A quality dual language Spanish middle school program is needed on the eastern side of the city. But I think you maybe have a bunch of younger parents who are currently very happy with early elementary at Chisholm also trying to solve a perceived middle school problem ahead of their own children’s middle school years, which raises some questions about the current quality if the nearby middle schools and whether a PreK3-8 campus like CHML is really the answer.
How and why did the strand program start at Chisholm? Like the full-school programs, almost all of the strand programs are in areas with a large Spanish-speaking population.
Richer, whiter, families in the area pushed for it. It allowed them to say they fought for equity (since now they got a bilingual program like in NW) and chose their in-bounds school without actually having to put their kids in classes with kids who live in public housing.
100%, and now they are pushing for their own middle school at a time when the rest of the Hill is trying to build IB buy in and momentum at the existing middle schools. It's so counterproductive.
To the people pushing for this program: send your kid to private. I mean it. It's obviously what you want anyway. Well foot the bill yourself. Don't take money way from Jefferson or Eliot-Hine. You want a special, bespoke education just for your kids and no one else? That already exists, it's called private school, there are many in this area.
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