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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree with PP. Looks like 10:30 is spouting nonsense.

I had the opportunity to visit and research WIS, LAMB and Bancroft. If you can get in and swing it financially, and assuming your kid does not have a learning or socio-emotional disability definitely go with WIS. Getting in (specially the Spanish track) is very difficult and competitive. Great teachers, wonderful proven curriculum, great community and awesome facilities. Your kid will likely thrive from PK through 12 grade. Another plus: no need to worry about overcroweded DCPS public schools and feeder patterns. Your child will get personalized attention and very small classes.

Bancroft is also nice from a facilities perspective, and very diverse socioeconomically and ethnically. If that's important to you then Bancroft would be great. However, I wasn't impressed by their curriculum. They used the same immersion program used in our old daycare, which IMO did not emphasized early literacy.

Also, while parents rave about it, I was not impressed by LAMB. This may be influenced by my skepticism of Montessori programs for some children.     [/quote]

We are at LAMB and have been very happy there.  This PP raises a good point, some people are so set on immersion (understandably important to some families) that they forget or overlook that LAMB is very much a Montessori school (especially under the new administration).  For us this is a positive, and I think that for my (very different learning children) the Montessori curriculum has been a good one, especially in the upper grades.  But it does seem (based on my time there) that there is always a subset of parents that seems almost surprised and caught off guard by the Montessori aspect.  Perhaps this is an unintended consequence of LAMB having had its own lottery for so long (i.e., a separate lottery doesn't always allow for ranking of true preference - parents who were set on immersion who may have preferred DCB/MV/Stokes but didn't get a spot, and instead lucked out in the LAMB lottery).

I don't have any insight into the question.  WIS is way out of our budge, as is living in-bounds for Bancroft.  We have had an incredibly positive experience at LAMB but have no illusions that it's perfect, or that it's a good fit for everyone.  My only point for people who may be looking at this thread (which is clearly focused on immersion) is not to forget that LAMB is also focused on the Montessori curriculum.  It's a really good idea to consider whether you think that would be a good fit for your child.[/quote]

Also at LAMB and I agree. If we could afford WIS maybe we'd choose that, but I have no idea - I'm not sure I love the idea of my kids being amongst overly privileged embassy types all the time.

This year has been incredibly hard on us and we haven't been particularly happy with how they have done DL, but in general it's the Montessori that sold it to us. We really wanted immersion and feel lucky we get both.

I would only add, make sure Montessori is a good fit for YOU. It's almost always enjoyed by the children, I've found. It's the families who I agree sometimes seem to misunderstand the entire concept and might be at LAMB for other reasons (just the fact that it has a good rating and reputation). At the same time I think the language aspect is quite prominent and there are many students who are native speakers. [/quote]

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