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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At a certain point, you need to take responsibility for your own decisions and just get your kids out of the bad school in which you placed them.   [/quote]

Parents are not leaving the school. They are protesting, because they believe things can improve. Also not everyone is having a bad experience.[/quote]

Dude open your eyes. Student retention is bad. Teacher retention is bad. Test scores are bad. Enrollment is struggling. Your school is in a bad, bad way and it's not improving.

Okay it's just a few parents who feel they must protest in the streets, but most schools have precisely zero parents desperate enough to start picketing outside. [/quote]

You can see re enrollment data here (higher than DC overall), no need to speculate:

https://stossepublicdocsprod.blob.core.windows.net/public-docs/dc-school-report-card/2021-22/profiles/171-3065(Mundo%20Verde%20Bilingual%20PCS%20-%20J.F.%20Cook).pdf

https://stossepublicdocsprod.blob.core.windows.net/public-docs/dc-school-report-card/2021-22/profiles/171-1088(Mundo%20Verde%20Bilingual%20PCS%20-%20Calle%20Ocho).pdf[/quote]

Data are here in case the above links don’t work:
https://osse.dc.gov/dcschoolreportcard/schoolsnapshot[/quote]

This data is from 21-22. When a school starts to fall, it can fall fast. The fact is they have open seats and so many open seats they’re clearing waitlists in May and reducing the number of classes in grades. That’s BAD for their finances and there’s no way around it. The budget spiral from open seats should be alarming to everyone.[/quote]j

You have to make up your mind, was it always bad or is it bad  now? Data don’t lie, most parents are happy with the school. Retention is higher than my IB, which is around 70%

This year they still have 1000+ students. There is no budget issues.

For any prospective parents, go and talk with parents with direct experience at the school, don’t believe everything that you read here. [/quote]

MV always had these issues, but it's only now that people are opening their eyes and calling it out, so the impact is getting worse now. Except you, who are still in denial.

1) You have no idea what their retention was more recently or will be going into next year.

2) Please explain why they offered so many lottery seats. If retention is good, then they're expanding significantly by accepting so many new kids at P St, right?

3) Having however many students does not mean there isn't a budget issue. Budget issues come from not completely filling classrooms, because they still have to pay the teacher's salary even if the room isn't full. So if they don't have a good allocation of kids across the grades, it's trouble. You don't know right now how that will shake out this fall.[/quote]

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