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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ouch Seaton is on the list. Too bad.

Roots and Sela are in trouble. Rocketship is very much in trouble.[/quote]

Sigh. I know there is a non-trivial number of humans on this board rooting hard for Sela to collapse, but: sorry...it's not "in trouble" - it just has the obvious, chronic retention challenges any school located outside NW and the Capitol Hill area without a junior high feeder would have, but is managing to do far better on any objective metric (test scores and re-enrollment in the lower grades not affected by feeder panic, parent survey satisfaction, measured student progress, etc) than any other school in the city facing the same hurdles. If they could get a decent feeder, their biggest headaches would more or less evaporate tomorrow.

Now, could politics and bigotry prevent that from ever happening? Sure! It may not be worth it to any junior high to invite the avalanche of haterade associating with (gasp!) Hebrew speakers would invite in this world, which is why I'd be shocked if Sela ever nabs any feeder at all. But all that does - along with, yes, the location and the relatively niche language appeal - is artificially suppress what could otherwise be one of the top-performing charters in the city. The bottom line is that Sela will always have a core group of parents - some small but enduring percentage of an educated, progressive and motivated demographic that disproportionately supports public schools - who have a cultural connection, and are prepared to endure the commute to enroll their kids for at least a few years... and another group of smart, engaged local parents happy to send their kids to a well-run school to learn and practice language acquisition of any kind alongside the first group, even if they don't have the same exact connection to the culture.

So - apologies again to people rooting hard for its demise - it's not in imminent danger of collapse - it's actually doing remarkably well under the circumstances. (ha...I guess in that way it IS kind of like Israel, after all! Go figure)

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There is nobody on the waitlist for any grade including PK. That's not politics. That's a fact. They aren't even drawing kids from one of the largest growing areas of the city nearby.

I'm not going to get into the rest of your bait but that's a big concern and I'm not sure how anyone could hand waive it away and just haters.[/quote]

There a bunch of other schools with zero waitlist or 1-2 for a 1-3 grades…what’s the relevance that this particular school is zero? I’m confused why people care, no waitlist doesn’t mean it’s in danger.[/quote]

Personally I don't think it's actually in danger. But this is the lowest waitlist it's had in years. And the lowest number of PK3 matches it's had in any year in the data set. Those are both red flags.[/quote]

Regardless of how one feels about the school it's weird that's people seem to think it's unfair to point out that having no one the wait-list and few PK matches are red flags.[/quote]

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