Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CMI parent here: I am not interested in combining with IT and Bridges in a high school. Definitely not appealing to me.

I'm interested to hear why.

I am the PP. I will not give my reasons on this anonymous forum because it will just create a big discussion that will divert folk from OP's original question.

Well fine, we didn't want to play with you guys anyway! JK

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CMI parent here: I am not interested in combining with IT and Bridges in a high school. Definitely not appealing to me.

If CM doesn't go to 12th now, then you would just leave after 8th grade then. No harm no foul right?

Not necc no harm no foul because the energy invested in planning such a high school might take away from each school's plans/actions/fundraising, etc., when they could be invested in just creating a really great PK-8 institution.

DCI feeders seemed to have done it without too many hitches. Separate personnel would need to be hired.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CMI parent here: I am not interested in combining with IT and Bridges in a high school. Definitely not appealing to me.

I'm interested to hear why.

I am the PP. I will not give my reasons on this anonymous forum because it will just create a big discussion that will divert folk from OP's original question.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CMI parent here: I am not interested in combining with IT and Bridges in a high school. Definitely not appealing to me.

If CM doesn't go to 12th now, then you would just leave after 8th grade then. No harm no foul right?

Not necc no harm no foul because the energy invested in planning such a high school might take away from each school's plans/actions/fundraising, etc., when they could be invested in just creating a really great PK-8 institution.

Are we really all so sure that these new charters are delivering an excellent education? For the record, I DO have a child in elementary school at one of them,and while I am happy, there is no question that it is a work in progress. That is not a bad thing - it is just a fact. Planning for a HS is fine but let's make sure the founders/administrators/etc at these schools live up to what they have promised. Frankly, I hear grumbling from parents at all of these schools - particularly from those who believe (rightly or wrongly) that their children are gifted. Again, this is not me - but I hear the chatter. Perhaps it is just upfront justification for why they will abandon the school after 3rd grade to go private. Not a financial option for my family despite our middle-class status.

Anonymous wrote:CMI parent here: I am not interested in combining with IT and Bridges in a high school. Definitely not appealing to me.

If CM doesn't go to 12th now, then you would just leave after 8th grade then. No harm no foul right?

Anonymous wrote:CMI parent here: I am not interested in combining with IT and Bridges in a high school. Definitely not appealing to me.

I'm interested to hear why.

CMI parent here: I am not interested in combining with IT and Bridges in a high school. Definitely not appealing to me.

Anonymous wrote:IT Parent here. When we started looking at schools, IT, MV, CM, Sela, and Lee didn't even exist. I'm sure there are more. The plan is for our children to stay at IT for MS or maybe the new Brookland MS could be an option for us since we are in-bounds for that if it feels like a better fit for each child. Who knows. We have time. We will take on HS as we get closer but are not ruling out a private school if it comes to it. I wouldn't want my kid to go to Deal or Wilson even if we lived InBounds. Way too big and impersonal.

Is Deal the one with trailers?

Anonymous wrote:^ ok PP get back to us when YOU have a 3rd grader.

Or a 6th grader at IT. The planning should acutally be started now, not in 10 years. When did the feeder schools start planning DCI?

Anonymous wrote:I would like to see all of these schools - IT, CM, Bridges and others that are relatively new - focus on ensuring that they have strong elementary school programs (and middle school programs, if the schools have those) before trying to take on a high school program. I like the potential of all of these schools (and am at one of them) but they need to focus on the task at hand and not get diverted with more expansion plans. Let's ensure the quality is what it should be.

I'm confused as to why you think these can't happen at the same time? The high school would be a separate school, so it wouldn't change anything that is already going on at the elementary/middle school level.

IT Parent here. When we started looking at schools, IT, MV, CM, Sela, and Lee didn't even exist. I'm sure there are more. The plan is for our children to stay at IT for MS or maybe the new Brookland MS could be an option for us since we are in-bounds for that if it feels like a better fit for each child. Who knows. We have time. We will take on HS as we get closer but are not ruling out a private school if it comes to it. I wouldn't want my kid to go to Deal or Wilson even if we lived InBounds. Way too big and impersonal.

^ ok PP get back to us when YOU have a 3rd grader.

I would like to see all of these schools - IT, CM, Bridges and others that are relatively new - focus on ensuring that they have strong elementary school programs (and middle school programs, if the schools have those) before trying to take on a high school program. I like the potential of all of these schools (and am at one of them) but they need to focus on the task at hand and not get diverted with more expansion plans. Let's ensure the quality is what it should be.

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Anonymous wrote:CMI parent, if the middle school is approved, we plan to stay through 8th.

After that, not sure. Continue each year to push the principal to work on a highschool

It has been talked about before, but I say CM and IT feed to a combined high school (and maybe Bridges).

- IT parent

I know! We should start a parent committee.