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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]CMIs special needs population is performing at a lower level than at most other schools.  [/quote]

How do you figure this? When I read through the School QSRs, the notes on teacher interactions with kids with SN at CMI seemed much more favorable than other schools (like, say, Bridges) with a substantial SPED population. When I look at the PARCC scores for kids with disabilities CMI seems to, again, do better than other charters with a substantial SPED population and better than some of the "HRCS". Ditto for the school report cards.  I have yet to meet a parent of a child with moderate to severe special needs (a kid like mine, who DCPS would place in a segregated classroom) who told me that they left CMI because they thought a different DC Public or Charter school could provide a better education for their child.  (If you are a parent who has found such a public school, please, tell me about it, because I have literally been looking everywhere I can think of for this information for the past three years!!!)

I'm not saying CMI is perfect. I'm not saying CMI will serve every kid with special needs well.[b] Kids from CMI who the school can't serve get private placements at Ivymount and other special needs schools[/b] (not as often as, say, Two Rivers, but . . .) But these claims that CMI is "failing" special needs kids compared to other DC public schools sound way off base to me. [/quote]

Let me just say, as a CMI parent, I know of two former CMI kids who were failed by the school.  Getting private placement is not as easy as you think.  CMI does not help to do so (because it looks bad on them).  I don't know if CMI is better or worse (I would assume it's better) - but getting a private placement from CMI is not an easy thing.[/quote]

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