Reply to Creative Minds Middle School?

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "Creative Minds Middle School?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even 3 classes of 17 is small.  That's 153 kids in the whole school--tough to compete in team sports, or to differentiate all that much.  For the right kids, though, it could be great.[/quote]

Im not sure if differentiation will be as big a concern. I sense that Creative Minds is self selecting in a lot of ways in that most of the kids come to school prepared to learn and are at or above grade level.  A classroom where most of the kids are high achieving doesn't need the same level of differentiation as many gentrifying schools east of the park where half the kids are testing at "below basic" in the same class where a hanfdul of kids are a grade ahead and bored out of their minds. [/quote]

The problem here is that "you get what you get" not what you want.  CM has to take all comers, it doesn't get to self select any more than Basis.  Basis would like to self-select: it draws heavily from the Hill where the MS options are viewed as sub-par.  This works great for the kids who came from Brent and Maury, but Basis has a major PR problem.  They want the kids who aren't keeping up to leave.  If CM thinks it will find a way to not offer differentiated instruction, then welcome to being an ostrich.  The Latin model seems to be focused on rigor, but also bringing students up to speed.  Latin, however, has a lot more resources at its disposal, and won't find them spread so thin as CM would.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics