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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The welcome event for new families was well-attended this past weekend with several committed families and many that are still making decisions.  These are families that have questions, maybe one foot in the water...people that really want this to work and are seriously excited by the proposed curriculum.  Parents came out in real life and put a lot of pressure on HOS and other admin regarding some of the same issues that DCUMers have been crying about from the comfort of the virtual peanut gallery since story in WaPo.  HOS was asked about everything from divisional sports and PE to visual and performing arts to whether or not the system Whittle is using to track student progress was a market ed product or developed specifically for this school.  Language immersion, class size, travel abroad opportunities, the middle school teacher that's coming over from Sidwell, the interdisciplinary blocks of study, expedition days, etc.  It was all there.

And, yes, construction.

And no, I'm not an evil marketing consultant.

And yes I'm a parent.  Washington is robust with great legacy institutions but [b]I've never seen anything like what this school is proposing.  [/b]

Hope it works.  If for NOTHING else, than to shut this Keyboarding Club UP.[/quote]

There is literally nothing about this school that doesn't already exist in DC. To say you have never seen anything like what this school is proposing means you simply haven't looked.[/quote]

As a parent that looked at most of the DC privates, charters, and public schools in the area, including a lot of time with Whittle, ( and NO I don't work for any of the schools ) I can say that to think Whittle isn't unique is just factually wrong. It might be significantly over promising...that's fair...we will see...find me the school in DC  that has a sister school in China and more to come on several continents potentially. Find the school in DC that allows students to dive deep into a passion and take each Wednesday as an experience day. Find the the school in DC that has the resources to build a far more sophisticated maker lab than one sees in most colleges, find me the school in DC that is offering immersion along with all those qualities PK-12. Find me the school in DC that along with all that--- is doing intense lengthy personal advisory each day with each student and then customizing the homework each night to that student's abilities. Maybe a few schools are doing bits and pieces ( Lowell seems to do good advisory, there are Chinese programs all over, WIS is project based, Fusion is highly personalized..) but I don't know of one doing all of this intentionally which is why I think they are disruptive and triggering so much defensiveness on the part of posters on this board. It's fantastic for parents that significant competition is coming into the area --It will be a wake up call for lots of schools to up their game and all of us will benefit. [/quote]

Sister schools in China and maker labs are bells and whistles.  At the end of the day, most schools don't have these things because kids can only do so many activities, and schools can only do so many things to a high standard.At the end of the day, colleges and employers exercise kids to master a body of skills and knowledge, including math and coding. You learn these things by spending a lot of time on them, engaging in spaced repetition.[/quote]

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