Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At a certain point, you need to take responsibility for your own decisions and just get your kids out of the bad school in which you placed them.

Parents are not leaving the school. They are protesting, because they believe things can improve. Also not everyone is having a bad experience.

Dude open your eyes. Student retention is bad. Teacher retention is bad. Test scores are bad. Enrollment is struggling. Your school is in a bad, bad way and it's not improving.

Okay it's just a few parents who feel they must protest in the streets, but most schools have precisely zero parents desperate enough to start picketing outside.

You can see re enrollment data here (higher than DC overall), no need to speculate:

https://stossepublicdocsprod.blob.core.windows.net/public-docs/dc-school-report-card/2021-22/profiles/171-3065(Mundo%20Verde%20Bilingual%20PCS%20-%20J.F.%20Cook).pdf

https://stossepublicdocsprod.blob.core.windows.net/public-docs/dc-school-report-card/2021-22/profiles/171-1088(Mundo%20Verde%20Bilingual%20PCS%20-%20Calle%20Ocho).pdf

Data are here in case the above links don’t work:
https://osse.dc.gov/dcschoolreportcard/schoolsnapshot

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At a certain point, you need to take responsibility for your own decisions and just get your kids out of the bad school in which you placed them.

Parents are not leaving the school. They are protesting, because they believe things can improve. Also not everyone is having a bad experience.

Dude open your eyes. Student retention is bad. Teacher retention is bad. Test scores are bad. Enrollment is struggling. Your school is in a bad, bad way and it's not improving.

Okay it's just a few parents who feel they must protest in the streets, but most schools have precisely zero parents desperate enough to start picketing outside.

You can see re enrollment data here (higher than DC overall), no need to speculate:

https://stossepublicdocsprod.blob.core.windows.net/public-docs/dc-school-report-card/2021-22/profiles/171-3065(Mundo%20Verde%20Bilingual%20PCS%20-%20J.F.%20Cook).pdf

https://stossepublicdocsprod.blob.core.windows.net/public-docs/dc-school-report-card/2021-22/profiles/171-1088(Mundo%20Verde%20Bilingual%20PCS%20-%20Calle%20Ocho).pdf

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At a certain point, you need to take responsibility for your own decisions and just get your kids out of the bad school in which you placed them.

Parents are not leaving the school. They are protesting, because they believe things can improve. Also not everyone is having a bad experience.

Oh really. Then why is it P St saw fit to offer 44 PK4 and 60 Kindergarten seats? 40 1st grade seats and 20 2nd grade seats? Sorry but those are not the numbers of a school with good retention.

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/aaron2446/viz/MSDCSeatsandWaitlistOfferData_draft/MSDCPublicDisplay

This makes no sense. The school doesn’t know how many people are leaving by lottery date. Therefore the lottery seats are not a direct reflection of people leaving.

They reflect an estimate of how many people will leave, including those who have already left by late winter lottery time. If retention is good, why would P St think they could fit 44 new PK4s and 60 Ks into their building? Have they planned an expansion and gotten that approved? Oh no, they have not. Are they planning more PK4 and K classes than before, perhaps? Where do the extra 40 1st graders fit into the building, along with 20 new 2nd graders? Seems like a lot of growth, if retention is good. That's 164 new kids. Please fill us in, is MV expanding?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At a certain point, you need to take responsibility for your own decisions and just get your kids out of the bad school in which you placed them.

Parents are not leaving the school. They are protesting, because they believe things can improve. Also not everyone is having a bad experience.

Dude open your eyes. Student retention is bad. Teacher retention is bad. Test scores are bad. Enrollment is struggling. Your school is in a bad, bad way and it's not improving.

Okay it's just a few parents who feel they must protest in the streets, but most schools have precisely zero parents desperate enough to start picketing outside.

Yes the third grade parents are not happy.

You can hear their perspective here: https://www.wusa9.com/amp/article/news/education/staffing-issues-prompt-protests-outside-of-dc-school-mundo-verde/65-70537913-541a-4350-9e00-8e62d98af251

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At a certain point, you need to take responsibility for your own decisions and just get your kids out of the bad school in which you placed them.

Parents are not leaving the school. They are protesting, because they believe things can improve. Also not everyone is having a bad experience.

Oh really. Then why is it P St saw fit to offer 44 PK4 and 60 Kindergarten seats? 40 1st grade seats and 20 2nd grade seats? Sorry but those are not the numbers of a school with good retention.

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/aaron2446/viz/MSDCSeatsandWaitlistOfferData_draft/MSDCPublicDisplay

This makes no sense. The school doesn’t know how many people are leaving by lottery date. Therefore the lottery seats are not a direct reflection of people leaving.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At a certain point, you need to take responsibility for your own decisions and just get your kids out of the bad school in which you placed them.

Parents are not leaving the school. They are protesting, because they believe things can improve. Also not everyone is having a bad experience.

Dude open your eyes. Student retention is bad. Teacher retention is bad. Test scores are bad. Enrollment is struggling. Your school is in a bad, bad way and it's not improving.

Okay it's just a few parents who feel they must protest in the streets, but most schools have precisely zero parents desperate enough to start picketing outside.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At a certain point, you need to take responsibility for your own decisions and just get your kids out of the bad school in which you placed them.

Parents are not leaving the school. They are protesting, because they believe things can improve. Also not everyone is having a bad experience.

Oh really. Then why is it P St saw fit to offer 44 PK4 and 60 Kindergarten seats? 40 1st grade seats and 20 2nd grade seats? Sorry but those are not the numbers of a school with good retention.

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/aaron2446/viz/MSDCSeatsandWaitlistOfferData_draft/MSDCPublicDisplay

Anonymous wrote:At a certain point, you need to take responsibility for your own decisions and just get your kids out of the bad school in which you placed them.

Parents are not leaving the school. They are protesting, because they believe things can improve. Also not everyone is having a bad experience.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At a certain point, you need to take responsibility for your own decisions and just get your kids out of the bad school in which you placed them.

How could we do this to our children?!??

Well, it must be embarrassing to publicly protest regarding a situation you chose.

Anonymous wrote:At a certain point, you need to take responsibility for your own decisions and just get your kids out of the bad school in which you placed them.

How could we do this to our children?!??

At a certain point, you need to take responsibility for your own decisions and just get your kids out of the bad school in which you placed them.

Kristen hand picks the Board and has them wrapped around her finger. I would not put your hopes there.

Given the extraordinary turmoil at MV, the silence and inaction from the school's board is terrible. The board has always been far too distant, paralyzed, and/or blissfully unaware. It's a shame that they do not take their responsibilities as board members more seriously. Holding the executive director accountable is one of their most important responsibilities.

Unless things have changed, the parent board members have never seen their role as representing parents. The parent board members, it would seem, have always been carefully selected not to make waves.

Time for the MV board members to step up or step off.

https://www.mundoverdepcs.org/board-of-directors

Anonymous wrote:Are they replacing all of the principals or just the cook campus ones?

My impression is that the principals are leaving of their own accord, but whatever the cause, it's both campuses.

Are they replacing all of the principals or just the cook campus ones?