If you are in bounds for JKLM - would you consider an elementary school Charter? Why?

[Anonymous]

Obviously Latin gets a lot of students from upper NW.

But how about the other charters that start at PreS / PreK?

I am aware of people who have their child at Ying Ying for the language immersion. But not familiar with any other families in my neighborhood who ventured outside of our inbounds elementary school.

[Anonymous]

No. For one, some of the popular ones are some distance, EL Haynes, Cap City, LAMB and Yu Ying (way in Brookland). Why do all that driving when you have something close at hand? I think it's nice for kids to go to school with kids from their neighborhoods, that is one of the reasons we moved in bounds for a JKLM school. Also, as was discussed in another thread, one of the strengths of JKLM is the school readiness of the kids. You won't find that at a school like Haynes at least until the drill, drill, drill and year round classes catch some of the kids up. I'd rather do what is easy for me and what has a track record of success for kids like mine. We are not wealthy by any means by the way and looked at several of the charters before moving in bounds and renting to get into a JKLM school.

[Anonymous]

I am inbounds for JKLM and agree with everything 11:17, with the exception of Yu Ying and ... isn't there a Spanish immersion charter? Those would offer something so different they would be potentially worth the drive if that is your family's priority.

[Anonymous]

PP, if your neighborhood school offer Spanish 2-3 times a week, then would immersion be that attractive? Your drive could be 30-40 minutes in the AM rush hour. So hours in the car for immersion?

[Anonymous]

we have an opposite question. dd goes to a charter that we think is fab, but we also really really want to her to get the benefit of spanish immersion and are contemplating a move into oyster. even though that would impact our quality of life quite a bit....just don't know what to do.

[Anonymous]

What is JKLM?

[Anonymous]

Janney, Key, Laffayette, Mann (or Murch)

[Anonymous]

depends on the curriculum offered at the charter.

[Anonymous]

No, there is no way to get the neighborhood school experience.

[Anonymous]

There are 4 in bounds kids for Much in my son's class at CCPCS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP, if your neighborhood school offer Spanish 2-3 times a week, then would immersion be that attractive? Your drive could be 30-40 minutes in the AM rush hour. So hours in the car for immersion?

Well, I'd say it depends. If you really want bilingual fluency, then yes immersion is more attractive than 2-3 hours per week. OTOH, as languages go, Spanish is probably just about the easiest for native English-speakers to pick up. You can't say that about Chinese though, that definitely seems more like a "grow up with it if you want to speak it" language.

FWIW, there's also a French Immersion program at Elsie Whitlow stokes.