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Anonymous wrote:Congratulations Lee families and good job for your administration for finding a great work around in a year when DGS isn't letting any surplus buildings for bid.

It's been an all around good year. SSMA did a great job too!

It has been a good facility year in a year DGS let no facilities (which needs to change). I hope this also means that Potomac Lighthouse building can rebuild/recharter in place so those families aren't disrupted.

Anonymous wrote:Congratulations Lee families and good job for your administration for finding a great work around in a year when DGS isn't letting any surplus buildings for bid.

It's been an all around good year. SSMA did a great job too!

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't be a fan of sharing long term with high school and other unknown entities but it's a beautiful building, closer to metro, and better than some of the other options that were floating around.

Come on DCUM, surely you can do better than this? You must have more petty ways to rain on our parade than this. I mean a beautiful, historic building that's near Metro, near the current location and has beautiful green space and plenty of room can't be perfect, there must be DCUM complaints to put those "mean" Lee moms in their place.

Sure, I'll help! It's a beautiful building, but will probably need a ton of work since it's been sitting vacant for a couple of years. Of course there will be safety concerns since it will be an open campus with a reform school onsite, and they will need to expand so quickly to afford the place that the educational model will probably suffer.

Ha ha.

Though I will say that though they aren't planning to expand this year (no bubble class), there will be lost of natural expansion in the next few years as we grow from 6 classrooms in the fall to 12 per our charter plan (all of this was in the email). So Lee will be a good bet for lottery lists in future years. And we are adding one new primary class this year o f20- 22 (9ish pk3, 9ish pk4, and 5 k). Plus, by my count there will be at least 5 open spots in K, not counting attrition, to fill out new K class.

My understanding is new primary class will not have any k kids for the first year.

I thought they were running it how they ran the initial start-up classrooms, but I could be wrong? Maybe they plan to leave room to send some entering K kids into the new primary class for the first couple of months. They did that last year with kids who needed the basics in Montessori materials before they moved on.

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't be a fan of sharing long term with high school and other unknown entities but it's a beautiful building, closer to metro, and better than some of the other options that were floating around.

Come on DCUM, surely you can do better than this? You must have more petty ways to rain on our parade than this. I mean a beautiful, historic building that's near Metro, near the current location and has beautiful green space and plenty of room can't be perfect, there must be DCUM complaints to put those "mean" Lee moms in their place.

I don't argue with you one bit. It's an amazing building with great space, closer to metro (did you not read my post). My concerns still stand. Lee is used to sharing space so it's probably NBD for them but sharing space with an unknown school permanently (that is nowhere close to a school like ITS) would raise concern for me. Lee is a smallish school, one does wonder how the finances will impact them long term. Nobody can't have it all (Wel, YY) so yes there has to be sacrifices. Congrats on the building.

Financially, I don't think it will be a big stretch because there are a lot of other entities in that building footing the bill. We only have two floors and the room we need/will need. We don't own it (community hope owns it). We do have a long term lease, and I'm not sure how long but we were told they were interested in buildings with 25 year leases renewable for another 25.

And for things like the playground, we have an untapped PTA ready to give.

The sharing may bother others but not me (I'm very conservative financially and prefer this to taking on a building alone)

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't be a fan of sharing long term with high school and other unknown entities but it's a beautiful building, closer to metro, and better than some of the other options that were floating around.

Come on DCUM, surely you can do better than this? You must have more petty ways to rain on our parade than this. I mean a beautiful, historic building that's near Metro, near the current location and has beautiful green space and plenty of room can't be perfect, there must be DCUM complaints to put those "mean" Lee moms in their place.

Sure, I'll help! It's a beautiful building, but will probably need a ton of work since it's been sitting vacant for a couple of years. Of course there will be safety concerns since it will be an open campus with a reform school onsite, and they will need to expand so quickly to afford the place that the educational model will probably suffer.

Ha ha.

Though I will say that though they aren't planning to expand this year (no bubble class), there will be lost of natural expansion in the next few years as we grow from 6 classrooms in the fall to 12 per our charter plan (all of this was in the email). So Lee will be a good bet for lottery lists in future years. And we are adding one new primary class this year o f20- 22 (9ish pk3, 9ish pk4, and 5 k). Plus, by my count there will be at least 5 open spots in K, not counting attrition, to fill out new K class.

My understanding is new primary class will not have any k kids for the first year.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't be a fan of sharing long term with high school and other unknown entities but it's a beautiful building, closer to metro, and better than some of the other options that were floating around.

Come on DCUM, surely you can do better than this? You must have more petty ways to rain on our parade than this. I mean a beautiful, historic building that's near Metro, near the current location and has beautiful green space and plenty of room can't be perfect, there must be DCUM complaints to put those "mean" Lee moms in their place.

I don't argue with you one bit. It's an amazing building with great space, closer to metro (did you not read my post). My concerns still stand. Lee is used to sharing space so it's probably NBD for them but sharing space with an unknown school permanently (that is nowhere close to a school like ITS) would raise concern for me. Lee is a smallish school, one does wonder how the finances will impact them long term. Nobody can't have it all (Wel, YY) so yes there has to be sacrifices. Congrats on the building.

You sound jealous.

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't be a fan of sharing long term with high school and other unknown entities but it's a beautiful building, closer to metro, and better than some of the other options that were floating around.

Come on DCUM, surely you can do better than this? You must have more petty ways to rain on our parade than this. I mean a beautiful, historic building that's near Metro, near the current location and has beautiful green space and plenty of room can't be perfect, there must be DCUM complaints to put those "mean" Lee moms in their place.

Sure, I'll help! It's a beautiful building, but will probably need a ton of work since it's been sitting vacant for a couple of years. Of course there will be safety concerns since it will be an open campus with a reform school onsite, and they will need to expand so quickly to afford the place that the educational model will probably suffer.

Ha ha.

Though I will say that though they aren't planning to expand this year (no bubble class), there will be lost of natural expansion in the next few years as we grow from 6 classrooms in the fall to 12 per our charter plan (all of this was in the email). So Lee will be a good bet for lottery lists in future years. And we are adding one new primary class this year o f20- 22 (9ish pk3, 9ish pk4, and 5 k). Plus, by my count there will be at least 5 open spots in K, not counting attrition, to fill out new K class.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't be a fan of sharing long term with high school and other unknown entities but it's a beautiful building, closer to metro, and better than some of the other options that were floating around.

Come on DCUM, surely you can do better than this? You must have more petty ways to rain on our parade than this. I mean a beautiful, historic building that's near Metro, near the current location and has beautiful green space and plenty of room can't be perfect, there must be DCUM complaints to put those "mean" Lee moms in their place.

Sure, I'll help! It's a beautiful building, but will probably need a ton of work since it's been sitting vacant for a couple of years. Of course there will be safety concerns since it will be an open campus with a reform school onsite, and they will need to expand so quickly to afford the place that the educational model will probably suffer.

Doesn't need much work. It was recently renovated.

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't be a fan of sharing long term with high school and other unknown entities but it's a beautiful building, closer to metro, and better than some of the other options that were floating around.

Come on DCUM, surely you can do better than this? You must have more petty ways to rain on our parade than this. I mean a beautiful, historic building that's near Metro, near the current location and has beautiful green space and plenty of room can't be perfect, there must be DCUM complaints to put those "mean" Lee moms in their place.

I don't argue with you one bit. It's an amazing building with great space, closer to metro (did you not read my post). My concerns still stand. Lee is used to sharing space so it's probably NBD for them but sharing space with an unknown school permanently (that is nowhere close to a school like ITS) would raise concern for me. Lee is a smallish school, one does wonder how the finances will impact them long term. Nobody can't have it all (Wel, YY) so yes there has to be sacrifices. Congrats on the building.

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Anonymous wrote:This is great news for Lee!

What is the typical cost of lunch and aftercare at Lee? I'm a prospective parent.

Thanks!

Fairly expensive. Aftercare is about $350-400 a month. Can't remember exact amount.v there is a break for people with less than $100k HHI. Lunch is $4.50 per day. The food is good though and very healthy.

And I don't feel you get very much for that price. Last year's aftercare was amazing but the school lost a ton of money on it. This year it's completely run by Mommies (and the people running it seem less beloved by the kids - by my kid at least) and organized activities not as good or as available. I can't imagine they will make any changes for the fall with the big move on tehir plate, so maybe we can get something better for the price in the 2017-2018 year.

I anticipate (hope for?) changes next year. The school are aware that MOMIES is not going as well this year.

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't be a fan of sharing long term with high school and other unknown entities but it's a beautiful building, closer to metro, and better than some of the other options that were floating around.

Come on DCUM, surely you can do better than this? You must have more petty ways to rain on our parade than this. I mean a beautiful, historic building that's near Metro, near the current location and has beautiful green space and plenty of room can't be perfect, there must be DCUM complaints to put those "mean" Lee moms in their place.

Sure, I'll help! It's a beautiful building, but will probably need a ton of work since it's been sitting vacant for a couple of years. Of course there will be safety concerns since it will be an open campus with a reform school onsite, and they will need to expand so quickly to afford the place that the educational model will probably suffer.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is great news for Lee!

What is the typical cost of lunch and aftercare at Lee? I'm a prospective parent.

Thanks!

Fairly expensive. Aftercare is about $350-400 a month. Can't remember exact amount.v there is a break for people with less than $100k HHI. Lunch is $4.50 per day. The food is good though and very healthy.

And I don't feel you get very much for that price. Last year's aftercare was amazing but the school lost a ton of money on it. This year it's completely run by Mommies (and the people running it seem less beloved by the kids - by my kid at least) and organized activities not as good or as available. I can't imagine they will make any changes for the fall with the big move on tehir plate, so maybe we can get something better for the price in the 2017-2018 year.

Full aftercare is $380.
Full beforecare is $75
Lunch is $4.50 a day.
Parents provide snacks for the whole class for one week approximately twice a year. Our last snack list was pita, tofu, hummus, cucumbers, apples and bananas

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't be a fan of sharing long term with high school and other unknown entities but it's a beautiful building, closer to metro, and better than some of the other options that were floating around.

I don't mind all about the sharing with a high school but am bothered to be sharing with a school whose educational model is so different (if it follows that report of democracy prep - I'd prefer kipp which at least has uplifting rhetoric along with military strictness). Internships and service-learning sound fantastic for high school students though, so we'll see.

Anonymous wrote:This is great news for Lee!

What is the typical cost of lunch and aftercare at Lee? I'm a prospective parent.

Thanks!

Fairly expensive. Aftercare is about $350-400 a month. Can't remember exact amount.v there is a break for people with less than $100k HHI. Lunch is $4.50 per day. The food is good though and very healthy.