Anonymous wrote:Yes we are in English track

Oh - well then, please, share your experience! What grade is your child in? Have you felt that there's a cohort of kids reading and doing math at or above grade level? How has behavior been? Have you been pleased with their education?

Yes we are in English track

Anonymous wrote:Got it. Well, we made Cooke to MR jump and it’s been great - we loved our time at Cooke for younger grades and love the new opportunities at MR. Though middle school path is a major headache.

Are you in the English track?

Got it. Well, we made Cooke to MR jump and it’s been great - we loved our time at Cooke for younger grades and love the new opportunities at MR. Though middle school path is a major headache.

Anonymous wrote:Can I ask you were you ended up?

OP here. I didn't yet. Lottery due date in a few weeks. Here's our list (I have another thread where I'm the OP asking folks to critique it if it looks familiar):

Ross
Garrison
EL Haynes
Inspired Teaching
John Lewis
Lee Montessori

We're also okay staying at our IB another year if none of these pan out.

Can I ask you were you ended up?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m the OP. I would have dug more deeply on this if it was my inbound, we’re just nearby, so take this with a grain of salt.

But I will say we talked to them at Ed Fest and this only exacerbated our concerns. They were very focused on the Spanish immersion, to the point where we couldn’t really get our questions about the English track answered. It just seems like Spanish is where the focus is. We don’t even opt to do an open house, we crossed it off our list.

We are in the school now, other than not having two classrooms - English and Spanish programs share everything else. All the aftercare specials are in English, music club is in English, all the specials (art, science, library, music) are also in English. The all get swim lessons and same aces to aftercare.

OP here. Yes, I understand that. My questions were around differentiation within the classroom, screen usage, discipline, curriculum, etc. Basically every question I asked, I got an answer that started with "well, for Spanish immersion we..." or veered into more talk about the Spanish track, despite the fact that I was clear we were only interested in the English track. And because there is no way to separate out the test scores, and based on what I've been hearing, most of the higher performing kids are in the Spanish track, we had major concerns that there wouldn't be a cohort of kids in the English-only class doing on/above grade level work. Seemed too risky to us.

Again - I definitely would have taken a closer look (and probably headed there for PK) if it was my IB. But it's not, and we have other good options, so we went with other choices.

They all get and same access - sorry for typos!

Anonymous wrote:I’m the OP. I would have dug more deeply on this if it was my inbound, we’re just nearby, so take this with a grain of salt.

But I will say we talked to them at Ed Fest and this only exacerbated our concerns. They were very focused on the Spanish immersion, to the point where we couldn’t really get our questions about the English track answered. It just seems like Spanish is where the focus is. We don’t even opt to do an open house, we crossed it off our list.

We are in the school now, other than not having two classrooms - English and Spanish programs share everything else. All the aftercare specials are in English, music club is in English, all the specials (art, science, library, music) are also in English. The all get swim lessons and same aces to aftercare.

Bancroft lost its Title 1 status a few years ago and they found another program for the free breakfast and lunch. I don't know how our aftercare provider handles aftercare payment for the parents who need assistance.

I’m the OP. I would have dug more deeply on this if it was my inbound, we’re just nearby, so take this with a grain of salt.

But I will say we talked to them at Ed Fest and this only exacerbated our concerns. They were very focused on the Spanish immersion, to the point where we couldn’t really get our questions about the English track answered. It just seems like Spanish is where the focus is. We don’t even opt to do an open house, we crossed it off our list.

Dual track has two classroom and more kids, so they mix them around. English only has one classroom so the kids stay the same. Also there seems to be more movement in the English track, so it's less stability (but more opportunity for refreshment).

wondering if any new opinions on marie reed english track? It is our inbound and trying to think how much of a priority it is to get into the dual language track

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Anonymous wrote:What is the middle school track for English? Deal?

lol, no. they only have rights to CHEC, which is bilingual. DCPS should either change this by giving the monolingual program rights to Francis or the new Shaw middle school, or by making the whole school bilingual and having an alternative elementary school (presumably Cooke) for those who don't want Spanish...though Cooke also feeds to CHEC at the moment, as does Tubman.

Marie Reed (both tracks in fact) will have rights to the future Euclid Street middle school. So will HD Cooke and Tubman as well as Garrison, Seaton, and Cleveland.

Many people don't know that it's more than just Garrison, Seaton, Cleveland because the official "geographic boundary" is those 3 schools; the rights for the other schools was set up using a different nomenclature. But the bottom line is that kids graduating from all 6 of those schools will be able to go to the new MS. (Kids graduating from Marie Reed, HD Cooke, and Tubman will also be able to go to CHEC if they want to.)

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Anonymous wrote:Ya’ll only want to use low income black and brown children for things like free lunch and after care. They should only provide these things to the low income black and black children who need them. They need to start making ya’ll pay the full price for it.

They will start paying for those things when the school stops being Title I in a few years. (And I'm not sure why you want low income white children excluded from free lunch and aftercare...)

For starters, there are not any low income white children attending Marie Reed. The school is barely able to find enough black and Latino children to qualify for Title I.

A lot of the black children enrolling at Marie Reed now are from affluent families or they are adopted by white parents.

LOL! Black affluent families are not sending their kids to DCPS let alone a title 1 school.

And how do you know? Unless you’re black you aren’t qualified to answer this question.

Because I know a number of affluent black families. Even middle class black families which I also know are not sending their kids to DCPS and especially not title 1

Sounds like you don’t.

Well I’m black and UMC. My child attends Marie Reed. Like I said, if you aren’t black and don’t interact with black people on a regular basis, you don’t have a say in this matter.

Sorry but you and your few are the outlier and not the majority.

Yes I am friends with black families and if you are really black then you know full well what the issues are. If you don’t then you are a troll.