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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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]

NP Wow, Creative Minds parents come across as really... "committed" is a nice way of putting it.  And committed is a good thing.  Except when it verges on being totally resistent to anything that isn't glowing.[/quote]

You realize that this is insulting a real person right?

You can say negative things about the school, there ARE negative things about the school, there are negative things about all schools.  When you talk about people at the school, anonymously, I feel the need to defend them.  I find it odd that you don't see the problem with that.[/quote]

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