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[quote=Anonymous]I kind of don't want to name the school because I have before and then the one person who had a bad experience pops up and derides the whole description.  This is my experience and it's true for our family.  The name doesn't really matter because getting in is practically impossible, like the previous poster said.  For the specific questions posed by a PP:

[i]Your schools sounds great.  We'd need to know more -- you say there is an art teacher and a music teacher at your charter.  This is excellent.  Tell us how often the kids have art period each week.  Music?  Instrumental lessons?   Describe the art studio.  Describe the art materials, that sort of thing.

Curriculum is one big difference I have noticed between my son's private school and our local JKLM and the swank ES my friend's kids attend in Chevy Chase Md.  I happen to like our kid's school better, but others feel differently and especially when it comes to mathreading, all day long.[/quote][/i]

Yes there's an art teacher and a music teacher, but they are part-time.  Art and music specials once a week each.  Recorder lessons.  No art studio, pottery barn, etc.  Small projects done in the classrooms, larger projects either outside or in a larger multipurpose room.

Curriculum is interesting -- pretty international, covers lots of content areas.  Not that strong on science hands-on activities.  Much better on social studies, history, geography.  Lots of hands-on language arts (making books, that sort of thing) and math.  But of course, we have the reality of testing because we have to do the DC CAS-- bleh.  So Jan-April ends up being a lot of working up to the DC CAS.  It must be done-- the future of the school rides on it.

What I think many private school families would not go for is the lack of... how can I put it?   Type A, insta-communications, abundance of organization and planning at the school.  The school is about the kids and parents' convenience is somewhat secondary.  Important yes, involved yes, but the whole machine that I believe may be geared up at private schools around parents' needs is just not really there at my kid's school.  Maybe that's what's missing for $30,000, I don't know.  [/quote]

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