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[quote=Anonymous]OP here. I just spoke to the admissions director of the DC campus (opening this summer). It looks like it could be a good option for the right type of student, but I'm not totally sure what the right type of student is. The admissions director has a special ed background, but I don't think that is necessarily the training of their teachers. A full time student would spend about 6 hours a day at school, M-Th. After each (individual) class, kids do their homework for that class (so while it's fresh) in a homework "cafe." There are two: a silent one for kids who need that to concentrate and a "social" one for kids to do projects. The idea is that they don't need to do any homework when they get home. Projects are assigned when a teacher has multiple students doing similar things and will get them to work together, but the class itself is still 1:1. Teachers are available to support forming groups and clubs, but it seems like a child would need to be a pretty strong self-starter for that to happen. At full capacity, they want the school to have about 100 kids.

My child is still a couple years away from middle school. I'll keep the school in the back of my mind; it will be interesting to see how it does as it grows.[/quote]

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