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[quote=Anonymous]Interesting idea, but no, I would not be interested in sending my kids to a "healthy eating/wellness" charter. For one thing, sounds like too much emphasis on diets at a very early age. It also sounds very prone to faddish or specific "lifestyle" choices -- I can just imagine the parents fighting over vegan vs. vegetarian in the cafeteria or who is more organic than whom. As a prior poster stated, healthy eating and wellness is something I teach and model at home. An interest in ecology is great but most schools incorporate that into their curriculum these days. There are some wackos in the environmental movement so I'd prefer not to have a full time focus on that either. What do I want in a school? Focus on something I can't readily teach at home. Foreign language is an obvious choice, esp. as small kids' brains are wired to acquire language faster at an early age. Indeed, it seems that the language-focused charters have done very well in DC.[/quote]
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