Anonymous wrote:If anyone is deciding whether to ignore this thread as DCUM exaggeration and put MV on the lottery anyways, the answer is no. Don’t be swayed by their marketing campaigns during open house season. It’s not a safe environment for children and going through multiple teachers in a year is terrible for learning and even worse for kids’ well being.

Anonymous wrote:It does seem somewhat intense. I was at the playground the other day and could hear a MV mom yelling about MV from 50 feet away.

Anonymous wrote:MV lost me when they said these kids who are fully vaccinated would still have to quarantine.

Anonymous wrote:I am the poster with two kids at MV, and they are actually in second and kinder. We have been there since the beginning, and honestly don’t know what you guys are talking about with it being a hot mess. The stats are actually that turnover is at or lower than most charters, and even with turnover the new teachers are just as awesome as the old. Bullying issues are so overwrought, have people never seen how second graders interact with each other? The worst thing that happened was everyone texting each other on what’s app all day and making every molehill Mount Everest. It is the parent community that I think has become the real problem there.

Anonymous wrote:I am the poster with two kids at MV, and they are actually in second and kinder. We have been there since the beginning, and honestly don’t know what you guys are talking about with it being a hot mess. The stats are actually that turnover is at or lower than most charters, and even with turnover the new teachers are just as awesome as the old. Bullying issues are so overwrought, have people never seen how second graders interact with each other? The worst thing that happened was everyone texting each other on what’s app all day and making every molehill Mount Everest. It is the parent community that I think has become the real problem there.

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Anonymous wrote:I am simply heartbroken. What have we done to our kids by choosing to live in this awful city?

I dunno. We send our kids to our Ward 5 IB and there hasn't been any teacher turnover. There are plenty of problems in this city, but I'm not sure Murial is directly responsible for MV's implosion.

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Anonymous wrote:I am the poster with two kids at MV, and they are actually in second and kinder. We have been there since the beginning, and honestly don’t know what you guys are talking about with it being a hot mess. The stats are actually that turnover is at or lower than most charters, and even with turnover the new teachers are just as awesome as the old. Bullying issues are so overwrought, have people never seen how second graders interact with each other? The worst thing that happened was everyone texting each other on what’s app all day and making every molehill Mount Everest. It is the parent community that I think has become the real problem there.

Ask a parent of older kids and you'll hear totally different things.

Anonymous wrote:I am the poster with two kids at MV, and they are actually in second and kinder. We have been there since the beginning, and honestly don’t know what you guys are talking about with it being a hot mess. The stats are actually that turnover is at or lower than most charters, and even with turnover the new teachers are just as awesome as the old. Bullying issues are so overwrought, have people never seen how second graders interact with each other? The worst thing that happened was everyone texting each other on what’s app all day and making every molehill Mount Everest. It is the parent community that I think has become the real problem there.

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Anonymous wrote:I am simply heartbroken. What have we done to our kids by choosing to live in this awful city?

I dunno. We send our kids to our Ward 5 IB and there hasn't been any teacher turnover. There are plenty of problems in this city, but I'm not sure Murial is directly responsible for MV's implosion.

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Anonymous wrote:We have two kids at Calle ocho and just love it. Yes there has been staff turnover, but that is normal and frankly the stats we have seen show it is less than at other charters. The replacements have been loving and great teachers! I think the main issue frankly is the insane parents. They freak out about literally everything. This year they created these what’s app groups which has caused every little incident to become an international sensation. If the parents would just chill out then everything would be fine. Kids are doing great, have nice friends and learning a ton. I can’t imagine leaving. They try their best. We were at our local in bounds dcps school prior to Mundo and we had to pull our kid out of there. Mundo is night and day better.

Pobrecito…I used to think that too with my new HRCS when they were 3-4 years young and I had a 1st grader. Then every year it was something new and I would hear rumblings about issues with the grades 2 above us, then one above us, and then we hit 4th grade and ish got real and then 5th came and I deeply regretted not taking lottery spots at Deal feeders and Basis for 5th grade. Don’t worry, it will soon be your turn to be like us and give warning signs to those pregnant with their first kid now getting ready to move from their Downtown condo to Brookland for a yard. MV is an ish storm. Sure it’s good compared to $1600 daycare. Wait until 3rd grade.

NP edit: 3050 daycare. You must be an old.

Nope. I have a 4 year old. For us, daycare got a lot more affordable for age 3 including nextdoor at Scrilli for $1100 (prob $1200 now). That is what I was using to compare to MV for free, not infant daycare rates.

Yup even for infant we paid 1600. Of course you CAN pay more, but why?

As for MV, our language charter is also having some challenges this year IMO in pandemic recovery/ ongoing stance. Certainly did worse with actual virtual learning. Wondering who is doing any better and if we should lottery out. Want to keep language though.

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Anonymous wrote:We have two kids at Calle ocho and just love it. Yes there has been staff turnover, but that is normal and frankly the stats we have seen show it is less than at other charters. The replacements have been loving and great teachers! I think the main issue frankly is the insane parents. They freak out about literally everything. This year they created these what’s app groups which has caused every little incident to become an international sensation. If the parents would just chill out then everything would be fine. Kids are doing great, have nice friends and learning a ton. I can’t imagine leaving. They try their best. We were at our local in bounds dcps school prior to Mundo and we had to pull our kid out of there. Mundo is night and day better.

Pobrecito…I used to think that too with my new HRCS when they were 3-4 years young and I had a 1st grader. Then every year it was something new and I would hear rumblings about issues with the grades 2 above us, then one above us, and then we hit 4th grade and ish got real and then 5th came and I deeply regretted not taking lottery spots at Deal feeders and Basis for 5th grade. Don’t worry, it will soon be your turn to be like us and give warning signs to those pregnant with their first kid now getting ready to move from their Downtown condo to Brookland for a yard. MV is an ish storm. Sure it’s good compared to $1600 daycare. Wait until 3rd grade.

NP edit: 3050 daycare. You must be an old.

Nope. I have a 4 year old. For us, daycare got a lot more affordable for age 3 including nextdoor at Scrilli for $1100 (prob $1200 now). That is what I was using to compare to MV for free, not infant daycare rates.

Yup even for infant we paid 1600. Of course you CAN pay more, but why?

As for MV, our language charter is also having some challenges this year IMO in pandemic recovery/ ongoing stance. Certainly did worse with actual virtual learning. Wondering who is doing any better and if we should lottery out. Want to keep language though.

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Anonymous wrote:We have two kids at Calle ocho and just love it. Yes there has been staff turnover, but that is normal and frankly the stats we have seen show it is less than at other charters. The replacements have been loving and great teachers! I think the main issue frankly is the insane parents. They freak out about literally everything. This year they created these what’s app groups which has caused every little incident to become an international sensation. If the parents would just chill out then everything would be fine. Kids are doing great, have nice friends and learning a ton. I can’t imagine leaving. They try their best. We were at our local in bounds dcps school prior to Mundo and we had to pull our kid out of there. Mundo is night and day better.

Pobrecito…I used to think that too with my new HRCS when they were 3-4 years young and I had a 1st grader. Then every year it was something new and I would hear rumblings about issues with the grades 2 above us, then one above us, and then we hit 4th grade and ish got real and then 5th came and I deeply regretted not taking lottery spots at Deal feeders and Basis for 5th grade. Don’t worry, it will soon be your turn to be like us and give warning signs to those pregnant with their first kid now getting ready to move from their Downtown condo to Brookland for a yard. MV is an ish storm. Sure it’s good compared to $1600 daycare. Wait until 3rd grade.

NP edit: 3050 daycare. You must be an old.

Nope. I have a 4 year old. For us, daycare got a lot more affordable for age 3 including nextdoor at Scrilli for $1100 (prob $1200 now). That is what I was using to compare to MV for free, not infant daycare rates.

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Anonymous wrote:We have two kids at Calle ocho and just love it. Yes there has been staff turnover, but that is normal and frankly the stats we have seen show it is less than at other charters. The replacements have been loving and great teachers! I think the main issue frankly is the insane parents. They freak out about literally everything. This year they created these what’s app groups which has caused every little incident to become an international sensation. If the parents would just chill out then everything would be fine. Kids are doing great, have nice friends and learning a ton. I can’t imagine leaving. They try their best. We were at our local in bounds dcps school prior to Mundo and we had to pull our kid out of there. Mundo is night and day better.

Pobrecito…I used to think that too with my new HRCS when they were 3-4 years young and I had a 1st grader. Then every year it was something new and I would hear rumblings about issues with the grades 2 above us, then one above us, and then we hit 4th grade and ish got real and then 5th came and I deeply regretted not taking lottery spots at Deal feeders and Basis for 5th grade. Don’t worry, it will soon be your turn to be like us and give warning signs to those pregnant with their first kid now getting ready to move from their Downtown condo to Brookland for a yard. MV is an ish storm. Sure it’s good compared to $1600 daycare. Wait until 3rd grade.

NP edit: 3050 daycare. You must be an old.