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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCPS needs to shutdown CHML (Montessori can stay for ECE) but use that beautiful space for 1-8th in an actual academic way. It is completed wasted right now on abysmal learning and beyond subpar behavior management.[/quote]

I know this won't happen but actually agree. They aren't offering real Montessori past K or 1st, but the school is in a prime location with a fantastic campus. I wish DCPS would just keep the Montessori in ECE but convert the rest of the school to a regular DCPS campus with *some* Montessori influence (maybe do mixed age classrooms for specials, incorporate more independent learning than you see at other DCPS schools, stay totally screen free). It just doesn't make sense as is, and they wind up hemorrhaging families after K and then you have new families coming in during upper grades looking for Montessori, but it doesn't really exist when you have so much movement in and out of the school, yet it's not being replaced with anything.

Alternative, maybe get rid of grades 2-5th but expand the middle school and see if you can sell it to kids coming out of Lee and LAMB? I don't know. But right now it's vastly underutilized.[/quote]

That is a great idea. As it stands, it's currently a dumping ground for kids who have been kicked out of their home schools and got lottery spots. This is mostly for upper elementary, but they come into the school with behavior issues, have never been exposed to Montessori and the independence it brings, and it truly ends up ruining the upper elementary classrooms to the point that ZERO learning is going on. I feel for the kids who have been at the school since pre-k. The same thing happens in lower elementary as well, just not to the same extremes as upper elementary. DCPS needs to do SOMETHING whether it's closing the lottery after a certain age or screening kids to see if they could actually handle this kind of independent environment or what you suggested. It is truly a disaster as it stands. The principal does absolutely nothing to quell these behavior issues and it just bleeds into the entire school community. She is not a leader. [/quote]

I've seen out-of-boundary students sent back to their home school for discipline issues. Is that not happening? [/quote]

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