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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am the PP nurse. I never worry about bills.  I make a helluva lot of money.

What planet do people around here live on that 100K is not an amazing amount of money??[/quote]

The ones that live in CC and Potomac, drive expensive cars, and belong to country clubs. Warped sense of reality. I know as my husband is a native and one of them (thinks $370K gross for us is "poor")

Parents we have met so far have been down to earth and nice. Getting to know them has been great. I've found the communication from the school to be good, I get things (art work, communications from the school) sent home every day, and my kid has really enjoyed the immersion program. [quote]I find it really interesting that people have had a negative experience since I haven't talked to one parent who has, not that it doesn't happen of course. Just not to anyone I know. [/quote][/quote]

In my experience, a lot of us were thinking the same thing but didn't want to be the complainer at birthday parties, etc.  Once people started hinting at stuff, the floodgates opened and there are a lot of people with similar complaints.  It's not a bad experience, per se.  Just an overall underwhelming experience when it comes to community involvement.  I mean, did anyone notice that they did not advertise the Columbus Day open house at all?  It wasn't on the school calendar, no flyer came home, and they didn't put it into the weekly email until the night before.  The longer you stay at OTES the longer you realize that they don't want parents involved.  To many parents that's absolutely fine or even preferable, but I hoped for a little more.

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DP, not new to OTES, and this year is the first they haven't publicized the Open House more widely.  I thought it was a little unusual, but otherwise NBD.

I don't have the feeling they don't want parents involved.  They may be sensitive to which groups of parents (usually the higher educated, often white but not always families) have the bandwidth to be involved and not want them to take over.  That dynamic happens in other schools and is a tough one.  Also, I am fine with parent involvement but I have *zero* interest in pushy parents running the show.  I've seen that at friends' schools and it's appalling.  I'd prefer the administration keep all parents slightly at arms' length than bend over backwards to meet the demands of the loud ones.  It's a much harder balance to strike than many people realize.[/quote]

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