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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hello! We have a very low WL number for prek3 at Creative Minds and would love some feedback. The location is good for us and like that it seems safe. Test scores are not great and I read here about over enrollment, plus there’s no HS feeder. We’d love Spanish immersion, but that didn’t pan out with our lottery numbers. Is this yet another school where upper middle class kids go for a few years and then bail when academics and behavior issues become an issue? I don’t think we will get off the waitlist anywhere else. Thoughts from parents whose kids attend? TIA![/quote].

As a former teacher and parent of Creative Minds, I would absolutely not recommend this school to anyone… especially past prek-3. During my time there, I was asked to cover up a lot of grievances that could have really altered the trajectory of the school. The leaders of the school, the ED, the Chief Academic Officer, and the operations manager, have no real understanding on how to run the school. If you speak up against them, they retaliate. Students with specific learning needs are not being serviced and parents are being lied to that service hours are being met. The Chief Academic Officer has no degree in educational leadership or experience. Her degree is in human development. No one has any leadership skills and it shows. Teachers are coming and going faster than a freight train and it’s because of the way leadership works. I pulled my child out and they are now excelling in their new school. I would not recommend this place to my worst enemy.[/quote]

Wow! Thank you for this.

I have several friends who ended up "winning" the lottery and starting PK3 there... every single one has since left and landed at a school where their kid is thriving (often a DCPS WOTP). One said her child learned absolutely nothing in her 3rd grade year at CMI. [/quote]

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