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[quote=Anonymous]I can't speak to the immersion (my kids just missed it, which is a shame because now my older child is learning spanish in middle school and would have been much farther along), but I can talk about sending two kids through.

First, the admin.  The principal is great.  She is a very strong leader and provides a vision in the school.  She doesn't just put out a fire, she puts it out and comes up with a plan to prevent them in the future (or already had a plan to prevent them).  Having an experience with admin that just addresses the problem in front of him/her, I appreciate the strategic vision.  As she has strong opinions, parents don't always get what they want.  I have asked for things and been turned down.  I have asked for things and it has been considered and offered in a way that satisfied my need but was not exactly what I requested.  I have come away feeling heard, but also know the admin is not going to do something just to make me happy. I can imagine some parents would be frustrated so it really just comes down to the request.  At the end of the day, my kids had a great experience.  They left to go to the magnet so we have comparative experience with different elementary school leaders.  I admire the OTES principal.

In terms of volunteering, I have volunteered throughout the years.  It depends on the teacher.  Some have you in classroom, some have you do copying and some don't want you at all.  When I haven't been in the classroom, I have volunteered for recess or lunch.  I have to take off from work to do it, and this year was super busy so I did not do it last year.  So, unless some policy changed in the last year and I didn't know about it, you can volunteer.

I don't remember my kids working on handwriting.  My older child's handwriting is awful and we are working on him writing more legibly for his middle school teachers.  But he types most of his stuff in the chrome book so no complaints.  I do remember spelling homework coming home in second grade but not third (but there was a spelling notebook).  There is a standard curriculum so OTES is following it.  My kids came out with a solid foundation of the basics and were more than prepared for the magnet and now middle school.  There are parents who supplement (I am one of them, because I am type A) but I also found that when my kid went to middle school with the kids who stayed at OTES without supplementation, he was in the advanced math with plenty of kids who just took the OTES curriculum and were getting the same grades as him.[/quote]

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