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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hold the phone!!!
Creative Minds most certainly DOES NOT implement the IB (International Baccalaureate) Program! Instead, it purports to implement the International Early Years and Primary Curriculum which has NOTHING to do with the IB....[/quote]

Correct. The Creative Minds website says, "Our multifaceted program includes the International Primary Curriculum (IPC), based on Howard Gardner’s multiple intelligence theory,"  which might be quite lovely but is definitely not the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme [url]http://www.ibo.org/pyp/[/url].[b] In addition to WIS, which has one of the best IB programs in the world (and the IB Diploma Programme for high school students) but of course is also very expensive, there are only 3 other IB PYP programs in DC, and they are all DCPS schools fairly new to the PYP (Cooke, Shepherd, Thompson).[/b]

In response to the original question, no, I agree with an earlier poster that wellness/fitness/healthy eating are things I easily tackle with my children at home. I am more interested in high-quality schools with a deeper focus--language immersion, arts, STEM, classics, or a combination of these--or just a fantastic all-around school with no overarching theme.

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First of all, what is the justification for the assertion that WIS has one of the best IB programs in the world?  The notification of that sort of qualitative judgement didn't leap out from the IBO website.

Secondly, Washington Yu Ying is also an IB PYP program, which unlike the DCPS dreck offers a language opportunity as well.[/quote]

Yu Ying is in the process of applying to be an IB school. It says on its website that it not an IB school yet, but is "in the earliest stages of this process." Accordingly, it is not listed on the IB website as a PYP school.

I have no opinion on whether the 3 IB DCPS schools are "dreck," although it's certainly an uncharitable and unsupported opinion (speaking of unsupported opinions), but they are IB schools, so the OP might want to visit them.

WIS: IB test results for their students (most of whom get not just the IB diploma but a bilingual IB diploma) are excellent, as is their international reputation. Among my colleagues, whose children have attended at least 2-3 dozen international and UN schools around the world, the reputation of WIS places it in the top tier anywhere, not just in the US. But that is neither here not there; I was simply providing information for the OP, who--if he/she really wants to pursue an IB PYP school--might want to start there with her research even though it is a private school.

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