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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Random other piece of information about CHEC.  When they started the dual immersion program in the MS they did not really care about the feeder pattern because their goal was to start kids in dual immersion as 6th graders.  Admin "bragged" that they could make dual immersion work starting in MS even though almost all of the other programs they could find across the country started earlier.[/quote]

I wonder how successful they are with that approach? I"m almost certain kids aren't attending who didn't have any prior Spanish instruction. Maybe the goal was to make it an "Hispanic" only middle school considering the demographics of the neighborhood. [/quote]

Here's an insider's take on CHEC (filtered through me). The place is a mess. The principal is well-liked by the teachers, but the Vice Principal is hated, despised, loathed. Teachers cannot understand why the Principal doesn't see this. Is it good cop, bad cop?

Regardless, the school BLEEDS staff. I believe that 25% of the teachers left within the first two weeks, and the attrition continues throughout the year.

DCPS is surely aware of the strains this staffing problem places upon the system. (Oddly, they've done nothing either.) My guess (this is my guess, not the still-present teacher I'm quoting) is that DCPS is waiting for the Principal (I can't spell her name off-hand) to retire and then they'll clean house. Any plans while she's still in charge will go nowhere since CHEC is her baby. [/quote]

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