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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not sure if any one here is an actual CMI parent.  Starting in 5th grade, there is only one language and it's only twice a week so language basically drops out for the parent who said there was too many focii. Exposure to any language is minimised.  It becomes a joke.  But...

No one is at CMI for the academics.  Only a few kids stayed for 6th grade.  The (those with options and not severe special needs) rest moved to better middle schools.  Talking to the upper grades (3rd, 4th, 5th), that's the plan except for some kids with IEPs or who don't have a choice.  Once IB schools (Deal, etc) and private middle start in 6th, the students will pursue academics.

CMI parents are there exactly for the carefree elementary school that allows our children to be sheltered from the pressure they'll face in a few years.  I don't care about the PARCC and I never have.  I originally chose CMI for the premise and stayed years later for the new campus.  My child will go IB to deal or private to Georgetown Day eventually.  I've drunk the koolaid of CMI but I'm not stupid.

Yes, there is a meeting on parcc but it's just so people continue to say they'll stay for middle school (it wasn't anonymous so 100% of parents said they'd stay, myself included, so our kid doesn't get penalized, but no one stayed for 6th and most won't).  The "whole child" sales pitch doesn't work for a middle school that won't spend money on a language elective or real science curriculum.  I'll go, applaud, pretend to agree, and stay on the inside.[/quote]

This actually sounds pretty similar to what I've heard about ITS (I know someone who left for middle school elsewhere due to concerns re: academic rigor, etc.).  Nonetheless, both schools still seem to have a lot to like for the early grades.[/quote]

So it's 2Rivers all over again.

Can't imagine anyone at CMI or ITS would "penalize" someone for admitting you are already out the door and why. [/quote]

Another long-time CMI parent here. The survey (whether or not I'd be there for MS) was required in order to return to school this year.  So, it was not anonymous.  Maybe I wouldn't have been penalized, but it wouldn't have been good.  I joked with the founder that I felt silly making a decision about 6th grade in 2nd grade.  She got very serious and shot me down.  I backtracked, and she said something like "Great. I wouldn't want to question your loyalty."  CMI can be a fishbowl. [/quote]

The survey was not required. And who calls her the "founder"?  This sounds made up. [/quote]

Not the poster you're responding too...I know! That's why I mentioned in a previous post there is so much misinformation here. I have never heard another parent call Golnar anything, but her name.[/quote]

It sounds legitimate to me.  Why would PP refer to Golnar by name?  That makes no sense -- that's like referring to our PTA as the CFA -- only other CMI parents would understand it, and it doesn't sound like PP was posting for other CMI parents.  I'm also a CMI parent, know Golnar well, and share some of PP's concerns.  I'm not in complete agreement, but but PP sounds real to me.  The fact that so many fellow CMI parents cannot handle any criticism, no matter how real, and constantly trashes or tries to take down (or calls "made up") anyone who raises any issues is exactly why everyone on DCUM thinks that all CMI parents have "drunk the koolaid". Do you not get that both you make all of us normal people at CMI look bad?  Yes, our MS has problems right now - big, gigantic, wart-on-the face type of problems.  It's the first year, and I'm hoping that in 3-4 years, it'll be ready, but I'm not going to pretend it's there yet.  Pretending it's something that it's not makes us all look either like we are a clique of mean girls that don't allow for any dissent, that we are liars afraid to admit any flaws, or that Golnar spends all night hacking these posts to try to "sell" her product like a shady MLM on the ranks of Herbalife.  I'm great at CMI, but I'm not going to act like it's for everyone or that the MS is something I would stay for if I had to make that decision this year and didn't like at least 3 years to even start thinking about it.  I hope those here who are considering CMI know that 99% of us do not think CMI is great for everyone, knows its strengths and its weaknesses equally well, welcome everyone and constructive criticism, and have not even had to think for a second about the MS because only last year's 5th grade class had to make a decision about it.

I have no idea what survey everyone is talking about.  I can only figure DH filled ours out, but he doesn't remember it either. That does not mean anything. I asked him to pick up groceries on his way home from work, as he was on the bus here, and didn't remember.[/quote]

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