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[quote=Anonymous]I haven't been on these fora much this past school year, but in school years past after lottery results and so many disappointed parents, someone would ALWAYS talk about how schools like Yu Ying, LAMB, Creative Minds and others should expand.  And I can only speak for the one of those schools that my kids attend, but those comments were always so ignorant because they assumed it was as simple as "just expanding your model".  Just get more space and replicate.

It is nowhere near that simple, and often this is exactly where schools crash and burn miserably, because they stop focusing on maintaining what they've done well and keep trying to accommodate the desire/pressure/hubris to get bigger and bigger and bigger.

There are always great lessons to be learned from schools that succeed, and those schools should be open about sharing what they do and how they do it.  But to think you can just multiply the current staff and admins and students by X and keep the quality is ignorant at best, disastrous at worst.

When we first were looking at schools for our kids, we fell madly in love with 2 schools: our current school and Mundo Verde.  This was before the move, when they were still on 16th St.  Even though we didn't end up at MV, I've always followed it's evolution with interest because I really did love so much about what I saw and heard and the parents/kids I met in looking at it.  It's very depressing that whoever is driving this expansion is not committed enough or focused enough on taking current problems seriously and making sure those not-minor wrinkles are ironed out before moving to expanding.

Hopefully DCI is smart enough to also realize, they haven't even gotten to a fully populated school yet (won't SY17-18 be their first year with a 10th grade, and still no 11th or 12th?).  And they've got more than enough to worry about with getting into the new building.  DCI would be crazy to consider further expansion of their size model before having a couple of successful years fully populated and in the new space.  They've already pulled off quite a feat by forming and opening at all, so hopefully those in charge and their Board are smart enough to stay focused on quality, building out the student population as currently planned, and getting their new building finished and open in time.

If MV is going to expand, and is making that decision without resolving their biggest problems or making sure DCI has a plan for how that would work with the feeder relationship, then MV has to be ready to live with the unknown consequences.  Which it sounds like will cost them a LOT of current families.[/quote]

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