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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Consider Bethune 16th St. It’s Spanish immersion (since you’re OA) and we’re having a really amazing pre-k experience. I think people lump it in with Bethune Brookland or don’t know about it, so it doesn’t get a ton of competition. [/quote]

Glad you are having a good year. I hope the school is better now. But they had lots of quality issues and nepotism problems (both campuses). I think that’s the reason most people haven’t considered it. [/quote]

Agreed, but there is a new principal (no more McKays at 16th St) and the feedback I’ve gotten from other parents is the quality is strong through 2nd, which is that campus’s terminal year. That tracks with what I’ve seen from the other teachers and administrators (at 16th). No idea how the expansion through fifth will go, but I HIGHLY doubt people have experience at both campuses and are just lumping both together. People bail on 16th St because they’re in bounds for a deal feeder that starts at K, they want a school with a DCI path, or they get nervous that they’ll finish second and be forced to the Brookland campus. I have friends with kids at DCB, Stokes, and MV and think the early grades at 16th are a lot more similar than different. And definitely better than Powell, West, and the other neighborhood schools parents are rallying behind. Again, that’s IN the classroom, I would love the supplemental programming that DCB or other schools offer. [/quote]

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