Anonymous wrote:Throwing out a name idea and some key concepts:

Le Petit Village

100% French Dual Immersion
French Language Arts
Singapore Math
Montessori Approach
Elegance
Excellence
Discipline
Prestige

Try this at a fundraiser for my charter school and I'll push you in the pool.

You have not seen the mythos created over the years about HRCS.

Now that we are about to elect HRC, it is probably time to actually establish HRCS.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Throwing out a name idea and some key concepts:

Le Petit Village

100% French Dual Immersion
French Language Arts
Singapore Math
Montessori Approach
Elegance
Excellence
Discipline
Prestige

You forgot rigor.

It was actually a reference to a television show in which a main character is involved in creating a charter school. The villain who tries to take over uses this school "model" to try and convince everyone to vote for her to be the new leader.

A joke for the 10 people that watched the show Togetherness on HBO.

Well, if we say we really want to serve disadvantage children, that should get it through the PCSB.

We can use some high SES code words that don't mean anything, like "GMO free construction", "child focused curriculum", and "chef-driven menu". If anyone questions what we're doing, we can say "What? It's not exclusive! Poor kids should have non-GMO constructed facilities too, you know."

Then we can locate it somewhere in gentrification central but far from transit to make it a little harder for low SES people to get to. If anyone questions that, we can just blame it on DCPS and Kaya Henderson not giving us a facility for free on top of a metro station.

Anonymous wrote:Throwing out a name idea and some key concepts:

Le Petit Village

100% French Dual Immersion
French Language Arts
Singapore Math
Montessori Approach
Elegance
Excellence
Discipline
Prestige

You forgot rigor.

Throwing out a name idea and some key concepts:

Le Petit Village

100% French Dual Immersion
French Language Arts
Singapore Math
Montessori Approach
Elegance
Excellence
Discipline
Prestige

Best thread of the day on DCUM.

Delightful
Courageous
Upwardly
Mobile
(Snowflakes)
And
Dads

Oh, I don't think we should offer elvish. Orcish is much more in keeping with Niccolo's original conceit.

Look up "Haricorts Verts" on DCUM to see how that turned out.

(No, I am serious too. Not about the Machiavelli part.)

Can we call it "The Machiavelli Montessori Middle School for Misspent Monies?"

MMMSMM

Anonymous wrote:So most people agree the middle school situation in DC is not ideal

Between all of the people on here I think we could start and maintain a new charter middle school

Who's with me..... and yes I'm being serious

That's great - you should join the DCPCSB start a charter listserv. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/dc-charter-applicants

Good luck.

A charter middle school that has to accept any kids from any DC public school. My guess is that you don't have kids above 1st grade.

So most people agree the middle school situation in DC is not ideal

Between all of the people on here I think we could start and maintain a new charter middle school

Who's with me..... and yes I'm being serious