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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know what puts people off the other KIPP locations.  But the P St. KIPP location is in boundary for Seaton, Cleveland, and Thomson, which are all relatively strong schools.  It is also close to the big Friendship Armstrong elementary campus.  And it's not terribly far from the metro but not super close either.  So it's not really a strategic location.  Personally I am fine with the KIPP style (what is really is, not what it is rumored to be) but am also fine with any other reasonably well-run school, so Seaton being near the metro is preferable for us.[/quote]

This. It’s not always about race. Convenience and confort play a part. And there is comfort for some in having more diversity and mixed income levels at a school. I’m comfortable in the Friendship Reggio preschool program because there are neighborhood parents there who are like me and there is diversity. Yes, the neighborhood is gentrified but let’s admit that’s not a bad thing for schools. I don’t know what my next school will be but if the Reggio program or arts immersion expands and my neighbors stay, we’ll stick with it. [/quote]

I don't know anyone who has stayed past preschool.  Actually I know one family who switched to Langley.  Apparently it's much less Reggio-ish after preschool, and they were uncomfortable with behaviors because they lived really, really close to the school and kids would come to their house uninvited.[/quote]

DP it's only Reggio-inspired for PreK-K, that's not any kind of secret. [/quote]

I know.  But apparently the upper grades are very not Reggio, much more so than you might expect for a school operating a Reggio preschool.[/quote]

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