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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live on this Hill and oppose this because we need to focus on improving existing middle schools, no creating a new one. Create an advanced language program at the existing MS. Why would you create an entire immersion MS to serve one elementary? It doesn't make sense.

Stuff like this annoys me because so many parents in DCPS just want some bespoke program for themselves. That's not the strength of a public school system. We need to pool resources.[/quote]

The parents pushing for this aren’t seeking for it to be a Chisholm-only middle school. If you google “Creciendo Chisholm” you can learn more about their advocacy campaign (I only know broad strokes) — their big point is that there is no immersion middle school east of the park, but multiple immersion elementary schools, leaving a lot of kids high and dry if they want to continue bilingual education. I have no idea how adding a middle school to Chisholm as a bilingual feeder would functionally work — some of those bilingual schools are charters, Chisholm is DCPS, can those even “merge” so to speak? — but I don’t get the sense that is just parents trying to get a bespoke program. [/quote]

The EOTP middle school for DCPS bilingual elementary schools is McFarland

The EOTP middle school for immersion charters is DCI.

Chisholm kids can go to McFarland like other DCPS schools.[/quote]

Okay yes, McFarland is EOTP. As I said, I only know broad strokes. But if you look at a map, McFarland is a solid six miles from anyone in-bounds for Chisholm, and close to an hour on public transit. Would you like to explain how that is an equitable distance for Chisholm (or other similarly located) kids to travel? DCPS has already acknowledged there’s a need for a bilingual middle school other than McFarland for exactly this reason.

And to the other poster who mentioned that Jefferson is going to add advanced Spanish instruction, that’s of course better than the current options! (Though will wait to see what that actually looks like.) And I kind of suspect that’s what the advocacy is really hoping for as the end result - a new middle school seems far fetched but a strong Spanish curriculum that kids can continue on with would be a good result (at least in terms of dealing with DCPS). [/quote]

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