Reply to ITS v CMI waitlist decision

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "ITS v CMI waitlist decision "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]From an outsider that is desperately on both WLs, here is my 2 cents. While CMI does have smaller classes, the adult ratio is the same, 8:1. I think they do this so they can afford to pay the tenured teachers a better salary. I can appreciate this especially if said teacher is experienced and can manage a classroom. I am very impressed with the tenure and experience of the average ITS teacher. Further, I think it's a testament that CMI hires so many residents from ITS.

That said, we still struggled with ranking CMI and ITS. Mostly due to the semi-mixed reviews we heard and read about older grades at ITS. However, ITS does have older students than CMI so there's no guarantees CMI won't endure growing pains with that. It was a very rough ranking, but we ultimately ranked ITS ahead of CMI. I will share that even though we plan to do aftercare, the club offerings were probably one of the last of 10 other things we considered. It looks like the income demographics match at both schools, I can see ITS offering clubs at a cost just like CMI. They are quite expensive for my blood so I wouldn't partake.

Good luck. You are very lucky.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics