Rank your top Spanish immersion programs

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Anonymous wrote:To clarify, it's not that the Adams space is underutilized. It's inappropriate. The building is not designed for middle school programs. It's an old elementary building with no real parking situated on one of the narrowest streets in Adams Morgan. Which is saying something. But it does have a nuclear fallout shelter.

Nobody in their right mind would have made Adams a middle school, let alone a bilingual middle school that doesn't use the bilingual elementary school a block away in the Ward with the highest concern concentration of Spanish speakers in the city. Oh, it also has a pool, full size soccer field, DPR tennis courts on site and is situated on a new cityscape with safer sidewalks on a widened street. That school is Marie Reed. It now feeds into Cardoza for 6-12 with no bilingual track.

Unfortunately, the principal who hatched the Oyster-Adams hybrid of two buildings over a mile apart was not in her right mind back in 2006. But let's not rehash that soap opera.

As of today, it's pretty evident the Oyster-Adams setup is not sustainable as a pk-8 bilingual "education campus". The education campus model in DCPS has resulted in under subscribed, under resourced, small middle school grades scattered across the city. And those are single building schools.

Common sense might say create Reed-Adams "campus" as a DCPS option for dual immersion. But it's more complicated than that.

If you're moving IB just for Oyster, fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy ride.

Very interesting. From what you say it makes all the sense in the world to find a way for Marie Reed to feed into Adams. Especially if a lot of Oyster parents bail for middle school. Just how impossible would it be to make that happen? Anything on the table for boundary revisions that affects O-A?

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Do parents of Reed really want to go to Oyster? If Adams is not appealing to Oyster what makes you think it is appealing to parents at Reed?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do parents of Reed really want to go to Oyster? If Adams is not appealing to Oyster what makes you think it is appealing to parents at Reed?

Different demographics

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Anonymous wrote:Do parents of Reed really want to go to Oyster? If Adams is not appealing to Oyster what makes you think it is appealing to parents at Reed?

Different demographics

So?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do parents of Reed really want to go to Oyster? If Adams is not appealing to Oyster what makes you think it is appealing to parents at Reed?

Seems obvious: a track to continue Spanish bilingual Ed through middle school! Where else is there that option for middle school within DCPS? Combined with O-A's reputation, why wouldn't parents want that? Cardozo is better??

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Anonymous wrote:Do parents of Reed really want to go to Oyster? If Adams is not appealing to Oyster what makes you think it is appealing to parents at Reed?

Different demographics

Isn't oyster mostly OOB? And why would this be a negative to begin with?

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Anonymous wrote:Do parents of Reed really want to go to Oyster? If Adams is not appealing to Oyster what makes you think it is appealing to parents at Reed?

Seems obvious: a track to continue Spanish bilingual Ed through middle school! Where else is there that option for middle school within DCPS? Combined with O-A's reputation, why wouldn't parents want that? Cardozo is better??

My child attended a DCPS bilingual school (luckily we were admitted to a charter after many years of applying). If we stayed at the DCPS we never planned to go to their assigned junior high. We planned (as many of our parent group at the DCPS) to attend charter schools.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do parents of Reed really want to go to Oyster? If Adams is not appealing to Oyster what makes you think it is appealing to parents at Reed?

Seems obvious: a track to continue Spanish bilingual Ed through middle school! Where else is there that option for middle school within DCPS? Combined with O-A's reputation, why wouldn't parents want that? Cardozo is better??

My child attended a DCPS bilingual school (luckily we were admitted to a charter after many years of applying). If we stayed at the DCPS we never planned to go to their assigned junior high. We planned (as many of our parent group at the DCPS) to attend charter schools.

Not sure I follow PP - does that mean that if Adams had been an option you would have wanted to attend, or no?

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I think the number of seats for Adams MS OOB is not high. What we really need are more bilingual middle school choices.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do parents of Reed really want to go to Oyster? If Adams is not appealing to Oyster what makes you think it is appealing to parents at Reed?

Different demographics

Isn't oyster mostly OOB? And why would this be a negative to begin with?

Nope, Oyster (the elementary campus) is mainly IB. Adams (the middle one, absorbed by Oyster 6 years ago) is majority OOB, but that is changing as it deals with quality issues.

Answering your other question: Marie Reeds parents would love to go to Oyster-Adams because it is better than their existing alternatives. But the Adams staff that has been working with some Reed alumns is not very impressed by what they have seen so far. So it's a matter of integrating a number of agendas while ensuring a top educational experience. Oyster-Adams remains one of the best DCPS schools, bilingual or not

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do parents of Reed really want to go to Oyster? If Adams is not appealing to Oyster what makes you think it is appealing to parents at Reed?

Different demographics

Isn't oyster mostly OOB? And why would this be a negative to begin with?

Nope, Oyster (the elementary campus) is mainly IB. Adams (the middle one, absorbed by Oyster 6 years ago) is majority OOB, but that is changing as it deals with quality issues.

Answering your other question: Marie Reeds parents would love to go to Oyster-Adams because it is better than their existing alternatives. But the Adams staff that has been working with some Reed alumns is not very impressed by what they have seen so far. So it's a matter of integrating a number of agendas while ensuring a top educational experience. Oyster-Adams remains one of the best DCPS schools, bilingual or not

With no science instruction in the younger elementary grades.....and the other factors doubt it.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do parents of Reed really want to go to Oyster? If Adams is not appealing to Oyster what makes you think it is appealing to parents at Reed?

Different demographics

Isn't oyster mostly OOB? And why would this be a negative to begin with?

Nope, Oyster (the elementary campus) is mainly IB. Adams (the middle one, absorbed by Oyster 6 years ago) is majority OOB, but that is changing as it deals with quality issues.

Answering your other question: Marie Reeds parents would love to go to Oyster-Adams because it is better than their existing alternatives. But the Adams staff that has been working with some Reed alumns is not very impressed by what they have seen so far. So it's a matter of integrating a number of agendas while ensuring a top educational experience. Oyster-Adams remains one of the best DCPS schools, bilingual or not [/quot

You are just a parent booster, but okay! And try bit to out down the Reed graduates next time.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the number of seats for Adams MS OOB is not high. What we really need are more bilingual middle school choices.

I think it is a small building, a large part if why oyster families bail bc MS requires a larger campus to provide real breadth of academic offerings.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do parents of Reed really want to go to Oyster? If Adams is not appealing to Oyster what makes you think it is appealing to parents at Reed?

Different demographics

Isn't oyster mostly OOB? And why would this be a negative to begin with?

Nope, Oyster (the elementary campus) is mainly IB. Adams (the middle one, absorbed by Oyster 6 years ago) is majority OOB, but that is changing as it deals with quality issues.

Answering your other question: Marie Reeds parents would love to go to Oyster-Adams because it is better than their existing alternatives. But the Adams staff that has been working with some Reed alumns is not very impressed by what they have seen so far. So it's a matter of integrating a number of agendas while ensuring a top educational experience. Oyster-Adams remains one of the best DCPS schools, bilingual or not

With no science instruction in the younger elementary grades.....and the other factors doubt it.

Yeah DC cas scores don't tell the full story about "best schools" especially in subjects not tested on.