Thanks much to both of you. We're accepted x2 in kindergarten at College Hills so need to decide whether to enroll. My wife went through such a program herself at the elementary level many years ago and so is quite convinced of the worth of dual language generically (and so am I). There are two questions for us, though. First, it's definitely the least convenient of the programs for us travel-wise and so we were disappointed to be placed there for that reason alone-we need to evaluate whether it's worth it vs. the new charter (which is closer and also offers dual language) vs. just staying in our home school. That you can't answer for us directly as it's circumstance-dependent, but general feedback is still helpful.
We had not looked carefully at College Hills for that reason, but now need to decide quickly and so want to hear more. We had heard some vague rumblings of some instability or high teacher turnover in the College Hills program. These are mainly second-hand rumors to us, but with little firsthand information at all we wanted to check into it as well as we can. After all, dual language is no silver bullet if the program can't keep good teachers around. The kids still need to learn math, science, history, etc. So any information specific to College Hills on general program stability, quality of the teachers, and quality of the administration is what we're after here.