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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow - CMI must be a heck of a place if it can turn TWO general threads into CMI specific only. [/quote]

It's the new YY. Or maybe BASIS in that regard. [/quote]

No, that means it has some very vocal boosters.  Boosters boost, it's what they do.  The school needs to deliver on some academic promises and produce some real results before it's the new...  whatever.

It's popular for younger grades, very white, very child friendly and that's good.  The MS focus seems to be all over the map.  What's going on with the commitment to SN students?  Frankly I think those kids need another decent school option than the rest of us need one more high-end elementary HRC.  The size of the school is never going to allow it the economies of scale to produce Basis/DCI/Latin opportunities, the parents pushing for this are extremely unrealistic.[/quote]
This. We are at ITS and feel like the K-8 model is set up to fail in DC. So many people will continue to lotto for a high school path and/or a larger middle that can provide more.[/quote]

I have seen private and parochial schools successfully implement K-8, but in DC's public model it just doesn't look feasible.  Privates and parochials can sort their students at entry, counsel them out, and charge admission.  That doesn't work for public schools.[/quote]

K-8 schools statistically do better for middle schoolers whether they are private or public.  The key is that DC schools are preschool-8, not K-8.  It's not that it's public.[/quote]

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