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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tubman definitely has a core group of very supportive parents.  However, there were some major issues when the PTA head was white. Apparently the principal wasn't going to let that go too far. (check the archives, there were definitely threads discussing this).  Tubman is at an ongoing disadvantage in that Columbia Village Public Housing feeds to it and that is a notoriously troubled complex and the root of quite a bit of crime and violence in CH.   PP are right, look in sections of Petworth to be IB for Barnard, West, Powell and maybe even Bruce Monroe.
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former CH resident, but had a kid and moved to Petwroth.[/quote]

I'm always baffled by these Tubman threads. Their scores are SO much higher than the other schools you mention--something good must be going on, but DCUMers are too scared to find out.[/quote]
The other goofy thing is that it feeds to CHEC, which is dual language, but Tubman is not. Very poorly thought out (as it typical).[/quote]

Same issue with Cooke. But then you have a school like Bancroft that doesn't. Again, not very well thought out.[/quote]

Actually, bilingual followed by English-only makes a lot of sense, because you only really need ES to have a bilingual kid. So Bancroft/Deal/Wilson or Oyster/Deal/Wilson makes sense. Those kids won't lose their Spanish.

What doesn't make sense is encountering bilingual education for the first time in grade 6, so I agree that Tubman to CHEC is odd.

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Yes, Tubman and Cooke to CHEC make no sense. And if CHEC is going to have feeders, then it should definitely have them be from bilingual schools. CHEC does not have an English-only track for middle school (not sure about high school).[/quote]

It would be better to just add an English-only program at CHEC.

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That won't happen unless CHEC wants it to happen.[/quote]

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