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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oyster uses Spanish education as an excuse for why the other subject areas are mediocre and watered down.  I would love for Spanish to no longer serve as the proxy for mediocre.

If the leadership can't right this ship in this location, [b]I shudder to think what it would be like in a new one.[/b][/quote]

It would be missing the high-achieving in-bounds kids, which is currently its real advantage over other public Spanish immersion options in the District. So... it would be a much less successful school on the whole.[/quote] how do you know it's the in bounds students who are high achievers? According to DC CAS (I think), Adams grades with 60 something out of bound scored higher than Deal.

The real difference between Oyster and other schools is the level of education of parents who speak Spanish, this includes Hispanics, foreign educated Anglos, in and out of bounds.

Try not to assume too much about the current families or what people would or would not do if the school were to move or change.

The growth of language charter options may have more impact than DCPS.[/quote]

Wait--if Oyster's middle school students are outperforming every other DCPS middle school, and it's lower grades are scoring well on CAS, why does this school need to be fixed?  It sounds as if someone is trying to "fix" a school that's not broken.  Doesn't DCPS actually have a number of schools that are in real crisis?  Oyster's "problems" sound like high class problems to me.[/quote]

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