My personal guess is a former parent who was at the school and left. Let's say your inbound school is bad-so what- you do what everyone else does and apply to other charters or DCPS options but who Really stays at a school they hate?? It doesn't fly logically.

Anonymous wrote:"If you don't like it, you should go. You'll be happier in the long run."

Keep repeating this. It makes everyone love us that much more...

It was meant sincerely, not snidely. I would not keep my child at a school I didn't like. How could all that negativity NOT rub off on the child? To not like his school? Not like his education? Not like the community? Not like the leadership? To feel so much stifled anger and frustration that one feels the need to act out and vent on an anonymous message board ABOUT his school?

If you were my friend, I'd tell you that seriously you should go - go somewhere else where you're more happy. This amount of complaining (and it always sounds like the same voice) isn't healthy. Neighborhood school, OOB, other charters, private or parochial, move to the suburbs - I'd do any of those things before I kept my child at a school I disliked. Because if you feel this badly, there's no way you can keep it under the radar of your child indefinitely.

Inevitably, he's going to end up disliking school in general - never having had the experience to understand that your hostility is very specific. (Or even worse, he could find out that your hostility is very specific; then one day when he's older and wiser, he'll wonder why you couldn't find a way to "rescue" him. He'll read about the single-parent mothers who moved back in with their parents, or took two jobs, or moved somewhere new, all so that their children could get the education they wanted, and it will dawn on him that you didn't love him enough to make those kind of sacrifices.)

You can tell him that you had the fortitude to bitch anonymously though. Maybe that will count for something?

Anonymous wrote:"If you don't like it, you should go. You'll be happier in the long run."

Keep repeating this. It makes everyone love us that much more...

Doubtful this poster is a YY parent, unfathomable that they would be if they hate it that much. Although why so venomous if they have no connection to the school? Just a crazy on DCUM...

Anonymous wrote:"If you don't like it, you should go. You'll be happier in the long run."

Keep repeating this. It makes everyone love us that much more...

Yeah, I think the point was that these are folks who don't have good local schools and feel like they can't go. Though it's hard to imagine how some (or maybe it's just one) of these people could hate any school more than YY.

"If you don't like it, you should go. You'll be happier in the long run."

Keep repeating this. It makes everyone love us that much more...

Anonymous wrote:Because their inboundary choice is even weaker academically, administratively, and the parents are awful in a different way?

Just guessing.

There are parents who've chosen Yu Ying over some of the best schools in DC. We all value different things. If you don't like it, you should go. You'll be happier in the long run.

Must be, and I guess if that's the situation then it's not surprising that people go completely around the bend. I probably would too.

Because their inboundary choice is even weaker academically, administratively, and the parents are awful in a different way?

Just guessing.

Anonymous wrote:"It's a choice school you know. If you don't like it, you can always leave."

This is a bit of a mantra at Yu Ying lately.

It's not attractive. At all.

This is definitely true and I wish people wouldn't say it with that tone. But if you were talking to someone who kept saying that their kid's school was awful and the administration was awful and the parents were awful and the education was awful wouldn't you ask why they stayed?

Well, I'm super happy I chose it. So far it has been great! Sad about no Pre3, but would be happy if they tacked a highschool on the other end instead.

"It's a choice school you know. If you don't like it, you can always leave."

This is a bit of a mantra at Yu Ying lately.

It's not attractive. At all.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don't forget the principal herself is a 4th year parent.

To be more clear: I am 11:38 and I am not the principal, or the ED, or any of the other admin folks/founder folks who are 4th year parents. I am a regular parent.

Glad you made that clear. Too bad you sounded just like them.

I guess they called you insane too!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don't forget the principal herself is a 4th year parent.

To be more clear: I am 11:38 and I am not the principal, or the ED, or any of the other admin folks/founder folks who are 4th year parents. I am a regular parent.

Glad you made that clear. Too bad you sounded just like them.

Not the PP, but I have no idea what you're talking about. I've also known them all four years and think they're amazing. It's incredible to see how this dream has become a reality, and is still improving all the time.

It's a choice school you know. If you don't like it, you can always leave.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don't forget the principal herself is a 4th year parent.

To be more clear: I am 11:38 and I am not the principal, or the ED, or any of the other admin folks/founder folks who are 4th year parents. I am a regular parent.

Glad you made that clear. Too bad you sounded just like them.

Oh, interesting. I don't use aftercare, but good to know that option is out there.