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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you're misinterpreting the initial bursts of excitement (including focusing on minutia) as an indicator of the potential success of the group. Kinda like when someone first gets proposed to. You start to ponder everything- the dress, the venue, etc... in the first five minutes. Then, when you've had a chance to start really thinking and organizing those thoughts, a plan emerges.[/quote]

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to imply that this couldn't be successful.  Just that's it's very very early.

[quote=Anonymous] I don't speak for the others, but I'm still in the giddy phase, just so excited that perhaps in the next few years a viable school option may exist for my kids. This whirlwind of lotteries, and discussions of race SES, etc... has been a tremendous downer.[/quote]

This concerns me.  The people who have founded the best charter schools, the kind of charter schools that the city needs, are those who look issues of equity in access, race and SES in the face.   If you find having conversations about them on DCUM to be a "tremendous downer" are you ready for this work?

[quote=Anonymous]Just the thought of a french charter with a positive and rewarding curriculum really made my day. Now, I'm starting to really think about this and am reading the charters of other schools. From the group thus far, I get the feeling someone will be suggesting a meet-up time soon. If not, I will. We need to meet, and organize ourselves first and then go from there. That will take a long time, hence, we get that this is a long and arduous undertaking. I think once we really dive in, we can look at outreach. Right now, I have nothing to outreach for. I want to be able to approach a family with a legit plan, not some pie in the sky idea. Knowing a lot of Francophone Africans, they will want to be given a firm idea so they know from the beginning it's worth looking into.[/quote]

Is your goal to build a school for DC's children, or for your children.  If it's the former, then diverse groups need to be there from the start, when you're building the vision and formulating the mission.  Waiting to invite them until you have a "firm idea" leaves out their ideas and their voices.  If it's the latter, that you want to build a school for your own child, and hope that some French speaking children will come along for the ride, then you might consider creating or joining a private school.  Honestly, given the amount of time and work associated with building a charter school you could probably earn a lot of tuition.

[quote=Anonymous]That's what will start to work on. Also, African francophones aren't the only communities we should think about reaching out to. Haitians, people from Martinique, Quebec, any Louisiana Creole/Francophiles, people from French Polynesia, Moroccans, Lebanese, etc... in addition to French people, people from Belgium, Swiss, etc...[/quote]

I hope this turns into a wonderful, lovely, welcoming school that takes on the immense and immensely important task of educating a diverse population. [/quote]

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