Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

There's only 1 Spanish bilingual 5 star school. Oyster-Adams.

That is absolutely untrue. Marie Reed Elementary School is also a five-star school and the only Title-One five-star school in DC. It has a dual language and is one block away from the Adams campus.

Moving OA to McFarland makes more sense now than at the beginning of this thread.

Too bad for you that’s not going to happen.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

There's only 1 Spanish bilingual 5 star school. Oyster-Adams.

That is absolutely untrue. Marie Reed Elementary School is also a five-star school and the only Title-One five-star school in DC. It has a dual language and is one block away from the Adams campus.

Moving OA to McFarland makes more sense now than at the beginning of this thread.

Please don’t turn this into an OA vs. Marie Reed thread. I’m very happy to hear about MR’s success because DC needs as many high performing (dual immersion) schools as possible.

Signed,
An OA Parent

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

There's only 1 Spanish bilingual 5 star school. Oyster-Adams.

That is absolutely untrue. Marie Reed Elementary School is also a five-star school and the only Title-One five-star school in DC. It has a dual language and is one block away from the Adams campus.

Moving OA to McFarland makes more sense now than at the beginning of this thread.

Hahaha here come the crazies.

Hola bruja, vete a aprender un poco de educacion.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

There's only 1 Spanish bilingual 5 star school. Oyster-Adams.

That is absolutely untrue. Marie Reed Elementary School is also a five-star school and the only Title-One five-star school in DC. It has a dual language and is one block away from the Adams campus.

Marie Reed is not fully dual language. Half of the students in the school are in a monolingual program.

I think the split is 2/3 dual language and 1/3 English track. And it's the only Title 1 ES - still an amazing accomplishment.

Anonymous wrote:

There's only 1 Spanish bilingual 5 star school. Oyster-Adams.

That is absolutely untrue. Marie Reed Elementary School is also a five-star school and the only Title-One five-star school in DC. It has a dual language and is one block away from the Adams campus.

Title 1 5-star schools, in addition to Marie Reed.

Banneker
Hardy
McKinley Tech
Washington Leadership Academy

Anonymous wrote:

There's only 1 Spanish bilingual 5 star school. Oyster-Adams.

That is absolutely untrue. Marie Reed Elementary School is also a five-star school and the only Title-One five-star school in DC. It has a dual language and is one block away from the Adams campus.

Moving OA to McFarland makes more sense now than at the beginning of this thread.

Anonymous wrote:

There's only 1 Spanish bilingual 5 star school. Oyster-Adams.

That is absolutely untrue. Marie Reed Elementary School is also a five-star school and the only Title-One five-star school in DC. It has a dual language and is one block away from the Adams campus.

Marie Reed is not fully dual language. Half of the students in the school are in a monolingual program.

There's only 1 Spanish bilingual 5 star school. Oyster-Adams. It doesn't have a "model". It just has a unique population. Low poverty, majority+ Hispanic. The hybrid neighborhood- dual lottery, pk-8th, two buildings a mile apart was not my design. It evolved over time in the near constant chaos that is publicly funded education in DC. Oyster is a unicorn, not a thoroughbred for breeding. The star ratings just perpetuate the myth that it's possible to compare apples with oranges.

I don't have a solution, but folks need to be honest about what makes Oyster-Adams different from other schools.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OA can remain a neighborhood school if you wish.

But what I am saying is that if the city cares about equity and access and fair resource allocation, ALL dual language programs in the city should be city-wide schools, with entrance via lottery.

The city has changed a LOT in 45 years, and even since the Oyster building was renovated 20 years ago. What made sense 2-4 generations ago may not make sense now.

There are currently 14 elementary school dual language programs, plus middle and high schools. Eight of these are Public Charter Schools, so EIGHT of these schools are city-wide schools. That means that you have options: move IB for your preferred dual language school, or try to win a seat in one of the eight city-wide schools.

Contrary to your beliefs, your child isn’t entitled to a seat at Oyster.

Also, I am not coming to this opinion from personal self-interest. My kids do not need not do I want a seat Oyster for them. I do want a rational public school system that makes access to coveted programs, which costs taxpayers more than a traditional public school, fair for all its residents.

Nope, it's not very rational policy to want to destroy a successful model -- it would stop being "coveted", right?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OA can remain a neighborhood school if you wish.

But what I am saying is that if the city cares about equity and access and fair resource allocation, ALL dual language programs in the city should be city-wide schools, with entrance via lottery.

The city has changed a LOT in 45 years, and even since the Oyster building was renovated 20 years ago. What made sense 2-4 generations ago may not make sense now.

There are currently 14 elementary school dual language programs, plus middle and high schools. Eight of these are Public Charter Schools, so EIGHT of these schools are city-wide schools. That means that you have options: move IB for your preferred dual language school, or try to win a seat in one of the eight city-wide schools.

Contrary to your beliefs, your child isn’t entitled to a seat at Oyster.

Also, I am not coming to this opinion from personal self-interest. My kids do not need not do I want a seat Oyster for them. I do want a rational public school system that makes access to coveted programs, which costs taxpayers more than a traditional public school, fair for all its residents.

Oyster is currently over-enrolled. It’s waiting list is usually one of the top five longest in the city. Based on its current two campuses, Oyster will never have
the physical capacity to meet those demands. If it becomes a citywide school, then many neighborhood children won’t be able to attend a school that is mere blocks away from their homes. The number of available seats won’t change, the only thing your proposed change will do is deprive neighborhood children from attending a school in their backyard. How is that fair or equitable to them?

Once again, there are 8 DC citywide dual immersion schools, plus MoCo schools. Feel free to avail yourself of those options, and leave Oyster alone.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OA can remain a neighborhood school if you wish.

But what I am saying is that if the city cares about equity and access and fair resource allocation, ALL dual language programs in the city should be city-wide schools, with entrance via lottery.

The city has changed a LOT in 45 years, and even since the Oyster building was renovated 20 years ago. What made sense 2-4 generations ago may not make sense now.

There are currently 14 elementary school dual language programs, plus middle and high schools. Eight of these are Public Charter Schools, so EIGHT of these schools are city-wide schools. That means that you have options: move IB for your preferred dual language school, or try to win a seat in one of the eight city-wide schools.

Contrary to your beliefs, your child isn’t entitled to a seat at Oyster.

Also, I am not coming to this opinion from personal self-interest. My kids do not need not do I want a seat Oyster for them. I do want a rational public school system that makes access to coveted programs, which costs taxpayers more than a traditional public school, fair for all its residents.

Anonymous wrote:OA can remain a neighborhood school if you wish.

But what I am saying is that if the city cares about equity and access and fair resource allocation, ALL dual language programs in the city should be city-wide schools, with entrance via lottery.

The city has changed a LOT in 45 years, and even since the Oyster building was renovated 20 years ago. What made sense 2-4 generations ago may not make sense now.

If you want a city-wide/county-wide system, then you should move to MoCo. MoCo’s full immersion schools have very few native speakers. As a matter of fact, when I toured Rock Creek Forest elementary school in Chevy Chase, we were told that only about 5% of students lived IB, the rest are bussed in. I didn’t see anything at RCF that I would like to see replicated at Oyster.

Anonymous wrote:OA can remain a neighborhood school if you wish.

But what I am saying is that if the city cares about equity and access and fair resource allocation, ALL dual language programs in the city should be city-wide schools, with entrance via lottery.

The city has changed a LOT in 45 years, and even since the Oyster building was renovated 20 years ago. What made sense 2-4 generations ago may not make sense now.

There are currently 14 elementary school dual language programs, plus middle and high schools. Eight of these are Public Charter Schools, so EIGHT of these schools are city-wide schools. That means that you have options: move IB for your preferred dual language school, or try to win a seat in one of the eight city-wide schools.

Contrary to your beliefs, your child isn’t entitled to a seat at Oyster.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:so - Oyster is for those who can afford its neighborhood. Got it.

Correction: Oyster is for native Spanish speaking students who win the school lottery and/or IB students who have parents “who can afford its neighborhood.” If that’s not you, there are other dual immersion schools available.

Correction to the correction if I may: OA is for those two groups AND for the many Latinos who make the effort to live in-boundary.

As someone who walks the kids to school I see many every morning. Please don't treat us as invisible people.