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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We live a couple of blocks away and want to be realistic about our odds in the lottery for other schools, how much commuting our family can live with, and the financial impact of private school, so I visited the Bruce Monroe at Park View school three times now. Twice in a tour, and once on a me-only tour where I got to sit like a little mouse in two PK classrooms for a little while.

The facilities are gorgeous and a lot of it is brand spanking new. That library is stunning.
At our last tour, I think I heard that all PK teachers have Masters Degrees. We might need to verify that, but it hasn't been the case in all DCPS and charter schools I've visited.
They're using Singapore Math for teaching math. Sidwell Friends is also using Singapore Math.

It's just not what I expected at all. One of my neighbors and friends has been advocating for the neighborhood families to consider Bruce Monroe and telling us she'd send her son there when it's his time, and it just seemed insane, based on the test scores, but after spending time there, I just don't see anything wrong with the school. All the teachers I've seen seem to have it together, be dynamic and working hard to good for the ESL population, but they also seem enthusiastic and welcoming to English-speaking middle/high SES families, unlike what I've heard about other schools in transitioning neighborhoods. This is going to sound obvious and ridiculous, but the current kids at the PK and K level just look like sweet kids and not social cases, and I can't imagine that sharing a classroom with them would do any damage to my kid. My kid will just be a little more lost on Spanish days than they are on English days, and in a couple of years they'll all speak both languages.[/quote]

I agree with all of the above based on my visits there. Considering that the test scores are not so far off from Barnard and Powell, I see BMPV as an opportunity and wonder why I haven't seen more people express interest on this board. [b]The dual language approach seems much more considerate than Powell,[/b] and the faculty and staff I spoke to were really on the ball. My biggest concerns were that there are no specials for PS and PK, which there are at West, Barnard and Powell, and that there seems to be some residual racial conflict from when the two schools merged--I think it left some parents feeling like winners and losers. This was alluded to in my meeting with them in any case. [/quote]

Could you clarify what you mean by this? [/quote]

I believe that Bruce-Monroe has Spanish language teachers and English language teachers and the students go from one to the other, where Powell has more bilingual teachers who teach in one language for a period of time and then the other language for the other period of time.  I don't remember how much time for each but that is how it was explained to me.[/quote]

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