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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The PP knows very little about the school.  What is IYP?  PP probably
meant IPC (International Primary Curriculum) Special needs is a focus and special needs
funding enables the small classes seen at CMI, signed CMI parent. [/quote]

I attended the open house and there was no mention of any focus of special needs from teachers, principal or other parents. That may have been the founders mission but of the dozen or so families I know at the school or hoping to attend absolutely none of them are there for the SN. I think the school is evolving. Other than small classes I don't know if they do anything all that different from any other school implementing IEPs[/quote]

Oh you have no idea what you are talking about! They go above and beyond what other similarly situated charters do in the way of evaluation etc. and implementation of IEP. The other thing to remember is that many parents of two, three and four year olds have no idea whether their children will have challenges. Our DC's challenges did not become apparent until kindergarten. Make sure you understand what "special needs" actually are. A child with sensory needs may be considered special needs as well as children with reading disabilities. They may excel perfectly in other areas and the "special need" may not be apparent. [/quote]

Curious how you can compare CMI and how they deal with special needs to other "similarly situated charters", do you have experience or are you just assuming? CMI does have many teachers with little to no experience, don't they? Anyway, I just want to know how you're able to say that?[/quote]

+1. How do you know that CMI is better with SNs than say Bridges or Yu Ying?[/quote]

I know about Yu Ying, Mundo Verde, Bridges, DC Bilingual, Powell and two WOTP DCPS as well as two other charters that don't get much mention here because I have friends with children at those schools and we compare notes re: evaluation and implementation of IEP.[/quote]

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