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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child went through Oak View CES. Had a mixed experience. The 4th grade teachers were great. The 5th grade teacher was also really good and we had some issues with the teacher that left, although he was a good teacher he was very sarcastic and not a great fit for my kid but he's gone anyway.

Admin was not great in my experience. The old VP was not good, but he is gone. The current principal is responsive to parents, in my experience. He is very strict. The school is not run like your average middle class school and we came from a focus school but one that had a more diverse make-up then Oak View. Outside the center Oak View is not diverse (mostly Hispanic). That's okay, but the center kids are generally not well-integrated into the rest of the school and there are a lot of behavior problems in the rest of the student body.

The PTA is small. This influences the outside opportunities. There was no St. Mary's trip the year my child was in 4th grade. There were free after school clubs led by teachers. Sometimes the two center classes get very small socially for the kids because there is limited social interaction outside the center. My child became friends with a few kids outside the center but there was resentment from kids outside the program on the playground and in the lunchroom. The paras are not friendly to the kids and the whole system of discipline is not what you'd expect at a school with fewer discipline issues. If you are coming from Flora Singer or Woodlin or the like this school is different in those ways. The IM teacher was only there once a week and that impacted his ability to help run any extra help for instrumental music and there was only one concert a school year. [/quote]

Just a couple points of clarification based on more recent experiences:

1) The St. Mary's trip isn't a function of the PTA size, but rather an administrative-level decision that the trip is cost prohibitive for many students, and that "just" having the CES kids go would be inequitable.

2) Instrumental music is happening twice a week now. 
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