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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So others may Eat (SOME) is on the next block and buses the homeless in to feed them.

If having homeless dudes bother you, go to another school.[/quote]

Thanks the the replies all.  So the schools top 3 were "too busy"
to welcome new families and answer questions--and current families are okay being treated that way?

OP here and I don't live too far from MV, so no issues with homeless. Aggressive panhandling and harassment such as I experienced today , however crossed a line. [/quote]

I, too, attended yesterday's Open House tour.  I was VERY disappointed.  I had high expectations of the school and after that tour, it really fell short of my expectations.  The tour guide was not very insightful.  She didn't seem to be prepared to answer obvious questions.  She was "winging it" and doing a poor job of it.

I was not pleased to here that after all of the construction & renovation, there would be no viable playground.  Therefore, they'd round up 22-24 kids, per class, and walk them through a very traffic heavy area with 2 teachers to nearby playgrounds.  The neighborhood doesn't seem to be safe enough to have preschoolers walking through on a daily basis just for recess.  I work on North Capitol street (about 5 minutes from the MV location) and our organization is always being made aware of murders, muggings, bicyclist assaults and thefts that seem to happen weekly, if not daily.

I also came across a few student working outside of their classrooms and asked them why there were not in their class doing their work to which they replied it was too loud in the class to concentrate so the teacher asked to finish their assignments in the corridor.  Those classrooms were JAM PACKED with kids.  [/quote]

I was at the tour a did not see any classrooms that were JAMMED PACKED... You must have been homeschooled because 20-24 kids in a classroom (especially one of that size) is not JAMMED PACKED. You must have never visited schools with smaller classroom space like Stokes.[/quote]

I wasn't home-schooled (although I guess that was your attempt at trying to be facetious) The classrooms are small and to have 22-24 kids in them seemed to be alot.  Given those 2 observations, they were JAM PACKED in my opinion. (not JAMMED -FYI)[/quote]

I guess small is relative .. those classrooms are NOT small by any means...ask to tour Stokes and then you will see small classrooms... What school do you know with bigger classrooms so I can apply to them next year...[/quote]

Wait - Stokes's classrooms are even smaller than the new ones at MV?  MV new classrooms look great but they're going to be incredibly crowded once inhabited.  Isn't there some sort of city code that sets minimum classroom size per-student?[/quote]

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