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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The thing about Eckington/Bloomingdale is its proximity to a lot of really great schools.  We can pretty easily commute to Two Rivers, Yu Ying, Mundo Verde, Lee, Stokes, Inspired Teaching, and the immersion program at Cleveland.  So it's hard for the neighborhood school to punch through that.  Additionally there is the issue of the feeder pattern.  So it isn't that surprising that people aren't staying at Langley.  However, I do think the preschool program is totally fine, and likely to improve as the principal continues her good work. [/quote]

Yes to all of this. We are Bloomingdale parents about to start our child at Langley for PK3. Admittedly many of the schools above were higher on our lottery list because of language immersion and/or better diversity or test performance, but we are very comfortable going to Langley for PK. Principal Spann has been very welcoming, we found the kids in PK classrooms as engaged as at most of the more highly regarded schools we visited. Also we were shown good use of metrics and IT in tracking and tailoring reading and writing instruction in PK and K. The enrichment programs from the school garden to robotics lab seem both fun and beneficial for the kids, and there is a dedicated on site PK playspace (ie playground). So with all of this and liking the idea of a walkable neighborhood school in principle we are giving it a try, and open to keeping our child there if the improvements in PK to date spread to upper grades. But we will take it one year at a time.[/quote]

Good for you, PP.  I expect to say exactly the same thing a year from now.  I would love an immersion school with a great feeder, but until the lottery gods are kind to us, I'm fine with Langley and planning to do my bit.  Are you getting involved with PTSA or anything?  [/quote]

We plan on keeping DCUM posted as to how it goes, hopefully that will help you when the choice comes! We were frustrated when we were first looking at Langley that there seemed to be little to no direct experience with the place mentioned here. We hope to help with that. :)

On subject of help, we do plan on getting involved- this summer has not been so good to start that with lots of time out of town but we'll be asking the school for POCs in coming days.[/quote]

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