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Anonymous wrote:Great - would love to send my kid there, but the lottery chances are slim. Anyone interested in starting another Spanish immersion school with me??

Try for Bruce Monroe in Park View. Up and coming and true immersion-one day spanish and one day english. I don't have my kid in there yet but the rate the neighborhood is gentirfying its improving for sure. More importantly, the principal is VERY welcoming to "new comers' and reaches out to allow anyone to set up a time to observe the classrooms during the school day.
How is that for being a booster!!??

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Anonymous wrote:Is MV adding more classes this year since they are moving to a new building and will presumably have more room?

Yes. Both this year and next.

Anonymous wrote:Is MV adding more classes this year since they are moving to a new building and will presumably have more room?

Anonymous wrote:Great - would love to send my kid there, but the lottery chances are slim. Anyone interested in starting another Spanish immersion school with me??

Anonymous wrote:A few reason why MV IS THE BEST:

1) Full immersion for pre-K 3 AND pre-K 3
2) NATIVE Spanish speakers from various countries throughout the world.
3) NOT ONLY is this a full immersion school, the SECOND focus of the school is the ENVIRONMENT! The school is making these children vary aware of the envirnmont and the world they live in.
4) ACTIVE parent/family involvement - it's almost hard to keep up with all of the committees, meetings and CLASSES For the PARENTS.
5) TRUE DIVERSITY - people from all over the globe attend MV!
6) STRICT NO JUNK FOOD POLICY - the school provides FREE organic or nutricious breakfast for all; the other meals are just as great provided by REVOLUTION foods!
7) YOGA classes for ALL
8) ART classes for all
9) MUSIC classes for all
10) SMILING FACES from all MV staff - it is really amazing. Either they are smiling from ear to ear or they are hard at work - I have never seen such hard working teachers and staff.
....HERE IS MY TOP TEN LIST - WELL, PERHAPS NOT THE TOP TEN, BUT THE FIRST THAT CAME TO MY MIND....I COULD GO ON AND ON!

THANK YOU MUNDO VERDE - WE LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:You won't find much by way of real comparisons from these boosters. They tend to retreat when posed with legitimate inquiry. Their whole point is to boost and run, and, oh, call people "haters" who challenge their wasting people's time with their unhelpful / trollish rants. Shame, really. Between that and angry parents weirdly protesting, makes normal folks question what's up with the school. Between all of the yoga and free breakfast, I hope there's some halfway decent parents with half a brain over there. Also, for those that don't know, there's been complaints from parents about how legit the Spanish immersion is. An American college grad. who studied a little Spanish hardly qualifies as someone to teach the language.

The MV poster indicated that many of the teachers are NATIVE speakers:
http://mundoverdepcs.org/our-team/
Teachers come from Puerto Rico, Mexico, Chile, El Salvador, Peru, etc.

None of MV teachers have just "studied a little Spanish." That's an inaccurate statment if this was meant to pertain to MV.

Are there any teachers that are not native speakers and learned the language in college? Many of them may be native speakers, but it's been going around that some are not. Anyone have the true story here?

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Anonymous wrote:You won't find much by way of real comparisons from these boosters. They tend to retreat when posed with legitimate inquiry. Their whole point is to boost and run, and, oh, call people "haters" who challenge their wasting people's time with their unhelpful / trollish rants. Shame, really. Between that and angry parents weirdly protesting, makes normal folks question what's up with the school. Between all of the yoga and free breakfast, I hope there's some halfway decent parents with half a brain over there. Also, for those that don't know, there's been complaints from parents about how legit the Spanish immersion is. An American college grad. who studied a little Spanish hardly qualifies as someone to teach the language.

The MV poster indicated that many of the teachers are NATIVE speakers:
http://mundoverdepcs.org/our-team/
Teachers come from Puerto Rico, Mexico, Chile, El Salvador, Peru, etc.

None of MV teachers have just "studied a little Spanish." That's an inaccurate statment if this was meant to pertain to MV.

Anonymous wrote:You won't find much by way of real comparisons from these boosters. They tend to retreat when posed with legitimate inquiry. Their whole point is to boost and run, and, oh, call people "haters" who challenge their wasting people's time with their unhelpful / trollish rants. Shame, really. Between that and angry parents weirdly protesting, makes normal folks question what's up with the school. Between all of the yoga and free breakfast, I hope there's some halfway decent parents with half a brain over there. Also, for those that don't know, there's been complaints from parents about how legit the Spanish immersion is. An American college grad. who studied a little Spanish hardly qualifies as someone to teach the language.