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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you really have no other options, it may be worth taking a chance on the new MV campus.   But as someone who has had kids at the school for 7 years, I'd tread with caution.   When parents raised concerns about expanding too quickly, we were told not to worry because the new campus wouldn't affect the P Street location.  Now they are filling the new school with many of the staff members from P Street, despite the fact that turnover is already a perennial problem. The administration deliberately misleads parents, "spins" bad news or simply avoids communicating the negatives.   I love that my kids speak fluent Spanish, but the school isn't as rosy as it seem at an info session.[/quote]

Thanks for your input as a current parent.  I’m sorry to hear that you are losing many staff members although having veteran or at least teachers who have already taught under the curriculum will be helpful for the new school.  Your comment about administration, specifically are you talking about the principal?  I think I read somewhere that there is a new principal at P St and communication is better.  Is that not true?

But you are correct that transparency and communication from teachers are important, even more so from leadership.  Any input on personal interactions or experiences from the new principal at 8th St?  Is she running the lower school curriculum or just a lower school coach/instructor?[/quote]

I no longer have lower school-aged kids so I don't have a lot of insight into the new 8th Street principal.  I think the new P Street principal, who is also pretty young and green, is doing a surprisingly good job given the circumstances.    But the founding principal that many complained was defensive, misleading and difficult was promoted to oversee both schools.[/quote]

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