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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, it is incredible short sighted to choose a school for the next 6 years based on whether your kindergartner will have two recesses. Please think about upper grades as you order your preferences. They come faster than you can imagine.[/quote]

This. Especially to consider a school like CMI where most every person I know is going crazy to get out of the school. [/quote]

Can you expand on why every person you know is trying to get out of CMI? Considering it for PK3, from the open house, it seemed like a very warm environment with staff that seemed invested in the school. And they mentioned that a lot of the administrative staff was all fairly new and they were aware that they needed to make some changes. And the student to teacher ratio was wonderfully low. But I only know one person who has a child there and she is happy....would love any more details on the bad things you've heard![/quote]

Charters generally pay teachers less, and CMI is one of the worst. Significant teacher turnover year to year. Their test scores are subpar - lower than the Title 1 scores nearby - despite the fact that the school has relatively few poor students. They do have a higher than average special needs population, but those kids too are not doing any better than a fair to middling DCPS school (comparing just that subgroup). The curriculum is not very rigorous at all.

It is ok for preschool but you don’t want to stick around past K. [/quote]

+1. Ask yourself why a school like CMI (who has been around almost 10 years) has all new admin staff? The elementary school was two stars on the OSSE report card last year and only a tad higher this year. The school spent a lot of money on the new campus and had to dramatically increase class size to stay afloat financially. Do some digging on here to get more of a story for grades above 1st. It’s pretty bad. As mentioned before, they don’t come close to performing on par with low income nearby schools like Barnard, West, Takoma, or even schools like Noyes or Burroughs. I would never waste a spot for CMI and that is not coming from a place or hate at all.[/quote]

Recommend reading the CMI threads on here. There has been an incredible amount of turmoil there over the past few years, and a lot of families I know who were once happy there all left as a result.[/quote]

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