MacFarland MS?

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Anonymous wrote:Have you ever been to a meeting where both English and Spanish translations were given? It's a mess! Hopefully they will have the same info. session for English only at a later date.

We are at a dual-language school (one of the MacFarland dual language feeders) and we do this all the time at school events and PTO meetings. It works fine if you know what you are doing. I recommend you get used to this, if you are interested in having your kids attend a dual-language school!

Is LAMB a title 1 school or whatever its call in the Charter world? Case closed. The pp has a point.

It's a Tier 1 school with 27% economically disadvantaged; 35% ELL. http://learndc.org/schoolprofiles/view?s=0193#equityreport

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Tier 1 (PCSB ranking) is not the same as Title I (federal funds for schools with high percentage of needy kids).

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At our DL school all the big meetings take place with translation. Usually one or two sentences in English followed by translation. Questions from parents in Spanish are translated and answered in both languages. It's respectful and necessary if all are to participate. But yeah it's slow.

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Anonymous wrote:Have you ever been to a meeting where both English and Spanish translations were given? It's a mess! Hopefully they will have the same info. session for English only at a later date.

We are at a dual-language school (one of the MacFarland dual language feeders) and we do this all the time at school events and PTO meetings. It works fine if you know what you are doing. I recommend you get used to this, if you are interested in having your kids attend a dual-language school!

Is LAMB a title 1 school or whatever its call in the Charter world? Case closed. The pp has a point.

It's a Tier 1 school with 27% economically disadvantaged; 35% ELL. http://learndc.org/schoolprofiles/view?s=0193#equityreport

No comparison to our DCPS dual-language school. Our percentages far exceeds that of LAMB.

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Anonymous wrote:Have you ever been to a meeting where both English and Spanish translations were given? It's a mess! Hopefully they will have the same info. session for English only at a later date.

We are at a dual-language school (one of the MacFarland dual language feeders) and we do this all the time at school events and PTO meetings. It works fine if you know what you are doing. I recommend you get used to this, if you are interested in having your kids attend a dual-language school!

Is LAMB a title 1 school or whatever its call in the Charter world? Case closed. The pp has a point.

It's a Tier 1 school with 27% economically disadvantaged; 35% ELL. http://learndc.org/schoolprofiles/view?s=0193#equityreport

No comparison to our DCPS dual-language school. Our percentages far exceeds that of LAMB.

Agree. But the point is that even with a lower lvel of ELL/FARMS LAMB commits to doing all parent meetings in both English and Spanish. This is about commitment to immersion and inclusiveness from the get-go.

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Anonymous wrote:Have you ever been to a meeting where both English and Spanish translations were given? It's a mess! Hopefully they will have the same info. session for English only at a later date.

We are at a dual-language school (one of the MacFarland dual language feeders) and we do this all the time at school events and PTO meetings. It works fine if you know what you are doing. I recommend you get used to this, if you are interested in having your kids attend a dual-language school!

This has been known to NOT work at one of the feeders and from my recollection, the language difference was not the main issue.

It has been done for years at LAMB -- makes for a longer meeting but otherwise not an issue. Can't imagine doing it another way.

Is LAMB a title 1 school or whatever its call in the Charter world? Case closed. The pp has a point.

I don't see your point. Why would the financial situation of parents have a bearing on doing translation at meetings? (I am using PP's term but what we are talking about is actually interpretation.) Wouldn't it depend more on the nature of the school (dual language) and the nature of the parent body (some native Spanish, some native English)?

You don't have to name the DL school where there were problems, but what were the problems?

[Anonymous]

Would it make sense for the DCPS MacFarland team to try to recruit at places like LAMB or Oyster or Stokes where onesies and twosies might be persuadable that the new DL school is worthwhile?

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Anonymous wrote:Would it make sense for the DCPS MacFarland team to try to recruit at places like LAMB or Oyster or Stokes where onesies and twosies might be persuadable that the new DL school is worthwhile?

Former LAMB parent here (kids now in MS/HS) = I am sure they will do this. Oyster-Adams folks visited LAMB and did info sessions about the middle school program in the past.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. Love how they copied DCI but in true DCPS inequity, they get to demand that anybody coming into the dual language program has to be at grade level in the target language, while DCI has to accommodate and plan for kids who lottery in with no language background. Just another example of the bullshit that goes on in this city....

DCPS actually tried to partner with DCI and have the charters and the publics go together in a middle school and high school. The charters refused. They were even going to give a brand new completely renovated space and the charters refused. There is a lot of bullshit...but the charters contribute half of it or more.

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and DCI copied WIS...

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Anonymous wrote:and DCI copied WIS...

I don't think there is a copyright on the secondary school feeder pattern. Execution is what counts here.

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Anonymous wrote:and DCI copied WIS...

I don't think there is a copyright on the secondary school feeder pattern. Execution is what counts here.

That poster was only point that out because someone upthred had the nerve to say MacFarland copied DCI.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. Love how they copied DCI but in true DCPS inequity, they get to demand that anybody coming into the dual language program has to be at grade level in the target language, while DCI has to accommodate and plan for kids who lottery in with no language background. Just another example of the bullshit that goes on in this city....

DCPS actually tried to partner with DCI and have the charters and the publics go together in a middle school and high school. The charters refused. They were even going to give a brand new completely renovated space and the charters refused. There is a lot of bullshit...but the charters contribute half of it or more.

Not true. DCPS offered a bum package and DCI wisely refused.

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DCI was smart to not weaken their "brand" by combining wth DCPS. I hope that changes over the next decade but DCPS still doesn't seem to know what they are doing with regards to McFarland and excluding non-spanish speakers at the first community meeting.

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I agree with one of the PPs who says that DCPS needs to be working hard NOW to convince the parents of very young children in-boundary for the planned feeder schools to start thinking about MacFarland NOW. Families like mine are already lost. We live three blocks from MacFarland but we have a 6 and 10 year old who attend a WOTP DCPS and will most likely attend Hardy...I'm interested in watching MacFarland (and Roosevelt) develop and hopefully succeed, but I am nearly positive that we will not attend either. By second grade, families have a good idea of what their path will likely be for middle school. So whoever said that DCPS has several years to figure out how they'll attract younger families doesn't know what he/she is talking about. And presenting the school like it might be intended for native Spanish speakers (by hosting a meeting in Spanish only) will only serve to send the message to reasonably high SES English-speaking families that "MacFarland's not really for you." At this point, I do sort of wonder how the backroom discussions at DCPS characterize their plans for MacFarland.