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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unless Spanish immersion is important to you, I'd do most DCPS schools over both of these for ECE, based on what I know about them.

Those schools aren't far from Seaton and JO Wilson - I'd at least check those two out. If you want Spanish immersion, Cleveland isn't far either and I have friends having a good experience there for ECE, though I've never a kid attend myself.

ECE is pretty strong across the district and then you can decide if you want to stay at the school or lottery elsewhere for K and up.

To put my response in context: I've never had a kid at either TW or Mundo. I have friends who have left both schools, and I went to a Two Rivers open house. But obviously, people with direct experience will know more. [/quote]

In other words, you have no experience with either school personally and so your recommendation is useless. Thank you.[/quote]

It is truly bizarre that you think only actually enrolled parents have anything worthwhile to add. [/quote]

NP.  It’s bizarre that OP is asking specifically about 2 charters and DCPS families always jumping in trying to recommend their school or other DCPS schools.  It is not what OP is asking.

Charter families don’t do this except maybe for the Basis folks.

What is it?  Do you guys have an inferiority complex or are so desperate to recruit families to your school or DCPS?[/quote]

Charter families absolutely post in threads about DCPS.

Also, I posted upthread and we are a former TR4 family who is now at a DCPS. We left because we didn't like TR and have been much happier at DCPS. I actually think this makes me very qualified to provide feedback to OP, and I feel comfortable encouraging her to investigate DCPS options over TR4 because I think she will actually be happier at a DCPS based on what she's shared (I didn't comment on MV because I have no experience with it, and also the immersion aspect makes that less of a 1:1 comparison the way TR is).

As someone who has experience with both charters and DCPS, it is my general observation that charter families can be clueless about DCPS and that there are a lot of false narratives about DCPS that get circulated among charter schools. For instance, we have good friends we knew at TR4 who decamped for suburbs the year before we left for DCPS. These friends *still* have misconceptions about DCPS based on their time at TR4, even when we've explained to them that it's really not the case based on our actual experience in a DCPS school. There is a lot of indoctrination at TR, and I suspect other charters, and part of that is painting DCPS as some kind of bogeyman to be avoided at all costs.

I don't have to recruit people to our DCPS because it has high IB enrollment and is considered a pretty desirable school with a good MS feed.[/quote]

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