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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP  - why not CM? Is it bc the teachers are young? [/quote]

Young teachers.  But more than that I did not like the head of school's answers to my questions about cultural competency.

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This. And I felt like the very young teachers were enthusiastic but felt like the administration was cold and unengaged [/quote]

The administration seemed surprised and cold when Spanish speaking parents came to the orientation.  The parents were left to have their children translate for them.  [b]The school was in Columbia Heights so they should have been prepared for interpretation or made other accommodations.[/b] [/quote]
Are you kidding me? Is Columbia Heights a part of the USA? Then I don't understand why the 'spanish speaking parents' should expect any kind of special accomodation. They moved the the US so they need to learn English and, before you accuse me of racism, I am an immigrant but do not expect anyone to speak Russian to me when I go to school orientation meetings. [/quote]

Totally agree.  The bolded is getting real old. Do we want to change the rest of the US into Miami where US citizens are treated like foreigners in their own country because they can't speak Spanish.[/quote]

Wow!  The responses - if from CM folks - is making my point.  It is my family's preference that a school I send my child to can treat a diversity of students and parents with respect.  I am not telling you what kind of environment you should want for your child.  [/quote]

You are responding to me.  I am not a CM parent.  Have no interest in the school.  My post was about the overall atmosphere that we are getting to a place that if you cannot speak Spanish or accommodate, as you state, Spanish in the USA, something is inherently wrong.  Why?  If I move to Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico, Honduras, etc I would have to learn the language without accomodations.  I don't know if you have lived in Miami, but it is difficult for a non-college educated person to obtain decent employment.  In some areas, it is difficult for college edcuated kids to obtain first employment without Spanish language background.  Why are they treated like second-class citizens because they cannot speak Spanish?  That's what your initial post advocates for a future DC.  [/quote]

It's called the free market. [b] If your client base speaks Spanish[/b], you have to too.  You Republicans are fond of the free market, but your platform isn't consistent with it on a lot of issues like immigration and women's reproductive health.[/quote]

But their "client base" does not speak Spanish.  It is a city-wide charter that happens to be in Columbia Heights and will move out of Columbia Heights to Petworth.  So all DC residents are their client base.  I could see the problem with this if ALL city wide charters had Spanish interpretation, or if you were advocating for translation in Amharic and Spanish and Vietnamese, to name a few of the languages, but this argument is ridiculous.  I could see if it were Mundo Verde or DC Bilingual, which does indeed have the Spanish speaking component and actively recruits Spanish-speaking families.

At any rate, if that is what turns you off about CMI, don't apply.  To each her own.  Every charter is not for every person.  The CMI community is  welcoming and diverse in every sense of the word.

[b]I am starting to wonder if some of this attitude towards the Head of School is because she is not the typical liberal, white fuzzy do gooder woman the DCUM majority population is used to dealing with[/b].[/quote]

No, that's not it.  Without naming the other 2 charters, (because I wasn't the one to name CM in this thread either), I have been to open houses and school expos and met 2 other popular charter Heads of Schools that were definitely NOT" warm, fuzzy, do gooders" from the ways they presented themselves.  Can't comment on whether they were "liberal" or not because a) I didn't ask, b) they didn't identify their political affiliations, and c) I know better than to make assumptions about a Principal's personal political beliefs or agenda based on what they say about their school at an open house.  And yet, I was still impressed by them because the atmosphere of the school was welcoming, the Heads of School were able to answer the actual questions asked by their audience, they didn't seem to have an attitude about it (they just weren't warm or fuzzy by a longshot), and what they said made sense.

I was turned off by CM's Head of School because she seemed to have an attitude, she didn't answer 2 curriculum questions directly, and her presentation was not just "not warm and fuzzy" but actually off-putting.  But as you've pointed out, I can think what I want, I just don't apply.  And that's exactly what happened in this last round of lotteries: we didn't apply.  And won't next year when we are looking at PK3 for our youngest to see if we end up at a better school than now.[/quote]

She seemed to have an attitude?

I can see how an intelligent, good looking woman presenting information based on research would be off putting.   :roll: [/quote]

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