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[quote=Anonymous]It started off as an early version of a charter school. Teachers wanted to experiment with a different approach to early childhood education: Reggio Emilia. And were given the to ahead to try it within Peabody. They had great success and the approach appealed to many families within the cluster boundary. But not all families felt comfortable trying out a non-traditional approach.  Sort of like charter schools now who use different approaches and other Montessori programs within DCPS.  Cool thing is that some of those founding teachers are still at SWS and one is now the principal.

There are other DCPS schools that have adopted the Reggio Approach but as a standard early childhood model in all of their classrooms. Parents can't opt in or out if it is their neighborhood school which possibly makes it harder to implement the full program like Sws does. You don't have he same level of parent buy-in.

The insinuation that parents choose Sws to avoid African Americans is truly unfair and the rantings of a very damaged mind.  That said, now that the school is city-wide enrollment and a full elementary Sws should and probably will do a much better job of outreach to try and increase diversity there. [/quote]

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