Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would leave a certain language immersion school if there were only a handful of bilingual children in the school, and none of the senior administrators were either native speakers or members of the target language-speaking ethnic group.

The arrangement would be far too silly for my bilingual ethnic family.

Ha! Hello MoCo Heritage Mom!

Ditto! How are ya! Missed ya!

+1000. where have you been?

I'm the pp whose DH is retiring. Good luck in your search. The out-of-state immersion school I've found doesn't give preference for Cantonese speakers or even native Mandarin speakers although they all give sibling and founders preference. Entrance is by random lottery even in the higher grades and no prior exposure to the target language required due to state laws according to the school. I've inquired.

what are the issues you are facing? Academic or social.

Anonymous wrote:We want to leave our HRCS b/c DH retired and we want to leave the area. However, we love our charter, DC is doing well in the immersion language and it's really difficult to find a comparable immersion language school and get admitted in the higher grades in another state. There simply aren't that many schools like our charter and it seems every school system and charter have PITA laws like DCPCS.

We can stay until DC finishes elementary school but we dislike our current house and not fond of the area either, We won't live here long enough to make moving into another house worthwhile.... so grit our teeth and bear it or give up the immersion language and apply to private schools in the area we want to live. We are at a DCI feeder but were planning on going private after elementary school anyway so it's just elementary school we're worrying about.

This. I'm pretty convinced if we left this school there'd be no opportunity somewhere else.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would leave a certain language immersion school if there were only a handful of bilingual children in the school, and none of the senior administrators were either native speakers or members of the target language-speaking ethnic group.

The arrangement would be far too silly for my bilingual ethnic family.

Ha! Hello MoCo Heritage Mom!

Ditto! How are ya! Missed ya!

Anonymous wrote:I would leave a certain language immersion school if there were only a handful of bilingual children in the school, and none of the senior administrators were either native speakers or members of the target language-speaking ethnic group.

The arrangement would be far too silly for my bilingual ethnic family.

Ha! Hello MoCo Heritage Mom!

Anonymous wrote:I would leave if my kid was getting picked on (by kids or adults); I'd pay private before I let him go though what I went through. If I wasn't satisfied with academics but thought he was in a safe, kind place and he liked going to school, I'd totally stay. If he was tuning out to learning but everyone was nice to him, it would be a tough choice

Private isn't necessarily a solution. I was bullied by the rich kids, as I was only upper middle class.

I would leave a certain language immersion school if there were only a handful of bilingual children in the school, and none of the senior administrators were either native speakers or members of the target language-speaking ethnic group.

The arrangement would be far too silly for my bilingual ethnic family.

I would leave if my kid was getting picked on (by kids or adults); I'd pay private before I let him go though what I went through. If I wasn't satisfied with academics but thought he was in a safe, kind place and he liked going to school, I'd totally stay. If he was tuning out to learning but everyone was nice to him, it would be a tough choice

We want to leave our HRCS b/c DH retired and we want to leave the area. However, we love our charter, DC is doing well in the immersion language and it's really difficult to find a comparable immersion language school and get admitted in the higher grades in another state. There simply aren't that many schools like our charter and it seems every school system and charter have PITA laws like DCPCS.

We can stay until DC finishes elementary school but we dislike our current house and not fond of the area either, We won't live here long enough to make moving into another house worthwhile.... so grit our teeth and bear it or give up the immersion language and apply to private schools in the area we want to live. We are at a DCI feeder but were planning on going private after elementary school anyway so it's just elementary school we're worrying about.

Anonymous wrote:Simple. If my kid's needs are not being met. Charter, private, public or homeschool... doesn't matter. What's in th best interest for your child. Only you know that.

This. Another question I have is whether the alternative would be able to address the needs. If the alternative is a crappy IB school, it might be that I would need to move. I'd be willing and able to do that, but not everyone would.

I would leave a big charter/small charter/DCPS/private if I truly felt that my child/family would have a better educational experience at another school that was an open option for us.

I know people are often hesitant to switch schools, especially if they are involved and invested in the community, and their kids are doing fine. But we did it--more than once-- until we found the sweet spot. We made our last move, entirely off of instinct in the middle of September (and it was not easy because my kids LOVED their previous school). It was not an easy decision as a mom (I earned a few battle scars on this one ), but I couldn't pay them to leave their current school and friends. After a year, I even got them to admit--verbally-- that I was right!

Did we find perfection? Of course not. But what we found, was an all around great choice for our kids and family as a whole.

If your instincts are telling you to make the change, don't allow your mind to reason you out of it.

Anonymous wrote:I'm wondering what types of things would make you leave a big charter (i.e. yu ying, lamb, e.l. haynes, stokes etc). I have been going back and forth and even after addressing my concerns they haven't addressed them.

Thanks

Do you mean "big" as in size? Or "big" as in popular in terms of demand? What concerns do you have??

Simple. If my kid's needs are not being met. Charter, private, public or homeschool... doesn't matter. What's in th best interest for your child. Only you know that.

What are your concerns?

I'm wondering what types of things would make you leave a big charter (i.e. yu ying, lamb, e.l. haynes, stokes etc). I have been going back and forth and even after addressing my concerns they haven't addressed them.

Thanks