Mundo Verde principal resigning

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Anonymous wrote:DCI is really good and getting better every year! It appears to take a couple of years for the kids from a couple of the feeders to settle into IB and behavioral norms. It's tough--lots of differences between the feeders and then the joys of middle schoolers to boot....The real success is seen at the HS level: the kids have adapted to a big school, IB, and adolescence! Our child has thrived there and wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

Come on, we're always mired in relativism in DC public. I once taught at the Richard Montgomery IB Diploma program in Rockville, which is so far ahead of DCI in offering challenge to the strongest students that there's really no basis for comparison.

If your metric for measuring DCI's high school performance is the performance of the in-boundary DCPS programs the students are avoiding, OK, you win. Real success.

Reality is DCI is a hell of a lot better than almost all public middle and non test in high school in the city. One could argue about Deal & Wilson but they have major problems now with overcrowding, large class sizes, and honors for all in Wilson which is a mess and counter to differentiating kids. Unfortunately that’s the reality of things

Adams is much better than DCI. Full stop.

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Anonymous wrote:DCI is really good and getting better every year! It appears to take a couple of years for the kids from a couple of the feeders to settle into IB and behavioral norms. It's tough--lots of differences between the feeders and then the joys of middle schoolers to boot....The real success is seen at the HS level: the kids have adapted to a big school, IB, and adolescence! Our child has thrived there and wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

Come on, we're always mired in relativism in DC public. I once taught at the Richard Montgomery IB Diploma program in Rockville, which is so far ahead of DCI in offering challenge to the strongest students that there's really no basis for comparison.

If your metric for measuring DCI's high school performance is the performance of the in-boundary DCPS programs the students are avoiding, OK, you win. Real success.

Reality is DCI is a hell of a lot better than almost all public middle and non test in high school in the city. One could argue about Deal & Wilson but they have major problems now with overcrowding, large class sizes, and honors for all in Wilson which is a mess and counter to differentiating kids. Unfortunately that’s the reality of things

Adams is much better than DCI. Full stop.

Adams isn't offering 3 advanced languages. It is far smaller. And its at-risk and economically disadvantaged student populations are lower.

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Anonymous wrote:DCI is really good and getting better every year! It appears to take a couple of years for the kids from a couple of the feeders to settle into IB and behavioral norms. It's tough--lots of differences between the feeders and then the joys of middle schoolers to boot....The real success is seen at the HS level: the kids have adapted to a big school, IB, and adolescence! Our child has thrived there and wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

Come on, we're always mired in relativism in DC public. I once taught at the Richard Montgomery IB Diploma program in Rockville, which is so far ahead of DCI in offering challenge to the strongest students that there's really no basis for comparison.

If your metric for measuring DCI's high school performance is the performance of the in-boundary DCPS programs the students are avoiding, OK, you win. Real success.

Reality is DCI is a hell of a lot better than almost all public middle and non test in high school in the city. One could argue about Deal & Wilson but they have major problems now with overcrowding, large class sizes, and honors for all in Wilson which is a mess and counter to differentiating kids. Unfortunately that’s the reality of things

Adams is much better than DCI. Full stop.

Adams isn't offering 3 advanced languages. It is far smaller. And its at-risk and economically disadvantaged student populations are lower.

Very strongly disagree. You’ll find all the crazy oyster boosters out here posting nonsense but the only “plus” for some is the lack of diversity in Adams. Spanish instruction is laughably bad (some teachers don’t even speak it!) and sped services are terrible.

You do you but in my opinion as a native Spanish speaker is to attend dci over Adams. Sure dci is unproven but Adams is a proven disaster.

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Anonymous wrote:DCI is really good and getting better every year! It appears to take a couple of years for the kids from a couple of the feeders to settle into IB and behavioral norms. It's tough--lots of differences between the feeders and then the joys of middle schoolers to boot....The real success is seen at the HS level: the kids have adapted to a big school, IB, and adolescence! Our child has thrived there and wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

Come on, we're always mired in relativism in DC public. I once taught at the Richard Montgomery IB Diploma program in Rockville, which is so far ahead of DCI in offering challenge to the strongest students that there's really no basis for comparison.

If your metric for measuring DCI's high school performance is the performance of the in-boundary DCPS programs the students are avoiding, OK, you win. Real success.

Reality is DCI is a hell of a lot better than almost all public middle and non test in high school in the city. One could argue about Deal & Wilson but they have major problems now with overcrowding, large class sizes, and honors for all in Wilson which is a mess and counter to differentiating kids. Unfortunately that’s the reality of things

Adams is much better than DCI. Full stop.

Adams isn't offering 3 advanced languages. It is far smaller. And its at-risk and economically disadvantaged student populations are lower.

You are a prime example of people posting on DCUM with no actual knowledge of the topic. In addition to Spanish, Adams offers daily Mandarin instruction to 6th through 8th graders who qualify (they must test at or above grade level in all subjects by the end of 5th grade). Adams also offers its students a 2 week trip language immersion trip to Beijing.

Adams smaller size, lower poverty and higher scores are a huge plus.

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Anonymous wrote:DCI is really good and getting better every year! It appears to take a couple of years for the kids from a couple of the feeders to settle into IB and behavioral norms. It's tough--lots of differences between the feeders and then the joys of middle schoolers to boot....The real success is seen at the HS level: the kids have adapted to a big school, IB, and adolescence! Our child has thrived there and wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

Come on, we're always mired in relativism in DC public. I once taught at the Richard Montgomery IB Diploma program in Rockville, which is so far ahead of DCI in offering challenge to the strongest students that there's really no basis for comparison.

If your metric for measuring DCI's high school performance is the performance of the in-boundary DCPS programs the students are avoiding, OK, you win. Real success.

Reality is DCI is a hell of a lot better than almost all public middle and non test in high school in the city. One could argue about Deal & Wilson but they have major problems now with overcrowding, large class sizes, and honors for all in Wilson which is a mess and counter to differentiating kids. Unfortunately that’s the reality of things

Adams is much better than DCI. Full stop.

Adams isn't offering 3 advanced languages. It is far smaller. And its at-risk and economically disadvantaged student populations are lower.

Very strongly disagree. You’ll find all the crazy oyster boosters out here posting nonsense but the only “plus” for some is the lack of diversity in Adams. Spanish instruction is laughably bad (some teachers don’t even speak it!) and sped services are terrible.

You do you but in my opinion as a native Spanish speaker is to attend dci over Adams. Sure dci is unproven but Adams is a proven disaster.

Incorrect, Oyster Stalker.

I have put 3 children through OA. ALL of their Spanish teachers, without a single exception, were native speakers. As a matter of fact, a clear majority of the teachers were born, raised and attended college in their native country.

Off the top of my head, here are a few reasons why OA is superior to DCI:
1. Much better test scores;
2. Less poverty;
3. Fewer behavioral issues;
4. Language immersion trips to Costa Rica, Beijing and a long-standing exchange program with a school in Spain;
5. Program where 8th graders take the AP Spanish exam;
6. All native Spanish speaking teachers;
7. 60% of the students are Hispanic/come from Spanish speaking homes;
8. Rigorous curriculum that the vast majority of the student body can handle;
9. Lovely, metro accessible locations; and
10. Not a charter school experiment.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DCI is really good and getting better every year! It appears to take a couple of years for the kids from a couple of the feeders to settle into IB and behavioral norms. It's tough--lots of differences between the feeders and then the joys of middle schoolers to boot....The real success is seen at the HS level: the kids have adapted to a big school, IB, and adolescence! Our child has thrived there and wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

Come on, we're always mired in relativism in DC public. I once taught at the Richard Montgomery IB Diploma program in Rockville, which is so far ahead of DCI in offering challenge to the strongest students that there's really no basis for comparison.

If your metric for measuring DCI's high school performance is the performance of the in-boundary DCPS programs the students are avoiding, OK, you win. Real success.

Reality is DCI is a hell of a lot better than almost all public middle and non test in high school in the city. One could argue about Deal & Wilson but they have major problems now with overcrowding, large class sizes, and honors for all in Wilson which is a mess and counter to differentiating kids. Unfortunately that’s the reality of things

Adams is much better than DCI. Full stop.

Adams isn't offering 3 advanced languages. It is far smaller. And its at-risk and economically disadvantaged student populations are lower.

You are a prime example of people posting on DCUM with no actual knowledge of the topic. In addition to Spanish, Adams offers daily Mandarin instruction to 6th through 8th graders who qualify (they must test at or above grade level in all subjects by the end of 5th grade). Adams also offers its students a 2 week trip language immersion trip to Beijing.

Adams smaller size, lower poverty and higher scores are a huge plus.

ADVANCED language studies, DCI offers classes for students who have been in a French, Chinese or Spanish program since grade school (they also have to offer beginner or intermediate levels in each).

I didn't say Adams was bad. IMO it's ridiculous to try and compare the relative merits of a school with 70 students per grade who have been together since kindergarten with one that has 200+ students coming from 5 feeders, each with a different curriculum as well as students entering from outside their feeder via the lottery.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DCI is really good and getting better every year! It appears to take a couple of years for the kids from a couple of the feeders to settle into IB and behavioral norms. It's tough--lots of differences between the feeders and then the joys of middle schoolers to boot....The real success is seen at the HS level: the kids have adapted to a big school, IB, and adolescence! Our child has thrived there and wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

Come on, we're always mired in relativism in DC public. I once taught at the Richard Montgomery IB Diploma program in Rockville, which is so far ahead of DCI in offering challenge to the strongest students that there's really no basis for comparison.

If your metric for measuring DCI's high school performance is the performance of the in-boundary DCPS programs the students are avoiding, OK, you win. Real success.

Reality is DCI is a hell of a lot better than almost all public middle and non test in high school in the city. One could argue about Deal & Wilson but they have major problems now with overcrowding, large class sizes, and honors for all in Wilson which is a mess and counter to differentiating kids. Unfortunately that’s the reality of things

Adams is much better than DCI. Full stop.

Adams isn't offering 3 advanced languages. It is far smaller. And its at-risk and economically disadvantaged student populations are lower.

Very strongly disagree. You’ll find all the crazy oyster boosters out here posting nonsense but the only “plus” for some is the lack of diversity in Adams. Spanish instruction is laughably bad (some teachers don’t even speak it!) and sped services are terrible.

You do you but in my opinion as a native Spanish speaker is to attend dci over Adams. Sure dci is unproven but Adams is a proven disaster.

Incorrect, Oyster Stalker.

I have put 3 children through OA. ALL of their Spanish teachers, without a single exception, were native speakers. As a matter of fact, a clear majority of the teachers were born, raised and attended college in their native country.

Off the top of my head, here are a few reasons why OA is superior to DCI:
1. Much better test scores;
2. Less poverty;
3. Fewer behavioral issues;
4. Language immersion trips to Costa Rica, Beijing and a long-standing exchange program with a school in Spain;
5. Program where 8th graders take the AP Spanish exam;
6. All native Spanish speaking teachers;
7. 60% of the students are Hispanic/come from Spanish speaking homes;
8. Rigorous curriculum that the vast majority of the student body can handle;
9. Lovely, metro accessible locations; and
10. Not a charter school experiment.

For PARCC, are you comparing grade to grade or the entire OA (3rd-8th) to the entire DCI (6-12th)?

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Anonymous wrote:DCI is really good and getting better every year! It appears to take a couple of years for the kids from a couple of the feeders to settle into IB and behavioral norms. It's tough--lots of differences between the feeders and then the joys of middle schoolers to boot....The real success is seen at the HS level: the kids have adapted to a big school, IB, and adolescence! Our child has thrived there and wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

Come on, we're always mired in relativism in DC public. I once taught at the Richard Montgomery IB Diploma program in Rockville, which is so far ahead of DCI in offering challenge to the strongest students that there's really no basis for comparison.

If your metric for measuring DCI's high school performance is the performance of the in-boundary DCPS programs the students are avoiding, OK, you win. Real success.

Reality is DCI is a hell of a lot better than almost all public middle and non test in high school in the city. One could argue about Deal & Wilson but they have major problems now with overcrowding, large class sizes, and honors for all in Wilson which is a mess and counter to differentiating kids. Unfortunately that’s the reality of things

Adams is much better than DCI. Full stop.

Adams isn't offering 3 advanced languages. It is far smaller. And its at-risk and economically disadvantaged student populations are lower.

Very strongly disagree. You’ll find all the crazy oyster boosters out here posting nonsense but the only “plus” for some is the lack of diversity in Adams. Spanish instruction is laughably bad (some teachers don’t even speak it!) and sped services are terrible.

You do you but in my opinion as a native Spanish speaker is to attend dci over Adams. Sure dci is unproven but Adams is a proven disaster.

Incorrect, Oyster Stalker.

I have put 3 children through OA. ALL of their Spanish teachers, without a single exception, were native speakers. As a matter of fact, a clear majority of the teachers were born, raised and attended college in their native country.

Off the top of my head, here are a few reasons why OA is superior to DCI:
1. Much better test scores;
2. Less poverty;
3. Fewer behavioral issues;
4. Language immersion trips to Costa Rica, Beijing and a long-standing exchange program with a school in Spain;
5. Program where 8th graders take the AP Spanish exam;
6. All native Spanish speaking teachers;
7. 60% of the students are Hispanic/come from Spanish speaking homes;
8. Rigorous curriculum that the vast majority of the student body can handle;
9. Lovely, metro accessible locations; and
10. Not a charter school experiment.

For PARCC, are you comparing grade to grade or the entire OA (3rd-8th) to the entire DCI (6-12th)?

6th through 8th

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DCI is really good and getting better every year! It appears to take a couple of years for the kids from a couple of the feeders to settle into IB and behavioral norms. It's tough--lots of differences between the feeders and then the joys of middle schoolers to boot....The real success is seen at the HS level: the kids have adapted to a big school, IB, and adolescence! Our child has thrived there and wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

Come on, we're always mired in relativism in DC public. I once taught at the Richard Montgomery IB Diploma program in Rockville, which is so far ahead of DCI in offering challenge to the strongest students that there's really no basis for comparison.

If your metric for measuring DCI's high school performance is the performance of the in-boundary DCPS programs the students are avoiding, OK, you win. Real success.

Reality is DCI is a hell of a lot better than almost all public middle and non test in high school in the city. One could argue about Deal & Wilson but they have major problems now with overcrowding, large class sizes, and honors for all in Wilson which is a mess and counter to differentiating kids. Unfortunately that’s the reality of things

Adams is much better than DCI. Full stop.

Adams isn't offering 3 advanced languages. It is far smaller. And its at-risk and economically disadvantaged student populations are lower.

You are a prime example of people posting on DCUM with no actual knowledge of the topic. In addition to Spanish, Adams offers daily Mandarin instruction to 6th through 8th graders who qualify (they must test at or above grade level in all subjects by the end of 5th grade). Adams also offers its students a 2 week trip language immersion trip to Beijing.

Adams smaller size, lower poverty and higher scores are a huge plus.

ADVANCED language studies, DCI offers classes for students who have been in a French, Chinese or Spanish program since grade school (they also have to offer beginner or intermediate levels in each).

I didn't say Adams was bad. IMO it's ridiculous to try and compare the relative merits of a school with 70 students per grade who have been together since kindergarten with one that has 200+ students coming from 5 feeders, each with a different curriculum as well as students entering from outside their feeder via the lottery.

I have heard from several DCI families in the Spanish track that the Spanish track isn’t very “advanced.”

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Anonymous wrote:DCI is really good and getting better every year! It appears to take a couple of years for the kids from a couple of the feeders to settle into IB and behavioral norms. It's tough--lots of differences between the feeders and then the joys of middle schoolers to boot....The real success is seen at the HS level: the kids have adapted to a big school, IB, and adolescence! Our child has thrived there and wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

Come on, we're always mired in relativism in DC public. I once taught at the Richard Montgomery IB Diploma program in Rockville, which is so far ahead of DCI in offering challenge to the strongest students that there's really no basis for comparison.

If your metric for measuring DCI's high school performance is the performance of the in-boundary DCPS programs the students are avoiding, OK, you win. Real success.

Reality is DCI is a hell of a lot better than almost all public middle and non test in high school in the city. One could argue about Deal & Wilson but they have major problems now with overcrowding, large class sizes, and honors for all in Wilson which is a mess and counter to differentiating kids. Unfortunately that’s the reality of things

Adams is much better than DCI. Full stop.

Adams isn't offering 3 advanced languages. It is far smaller. And its at-risk and economically disadvantaged student populations are lower.

You are a prime example of people posting on DCUM with no actual knowledge of the topic. In addition to Spanish, Adams offers daily Mandarin instruction to 6th through 8th graders who qualify (they must test at or above grade level in all subjects by the end of 5th grade). Adams also offers its students a 2 week trip language immersion trip to Beijing.

Adams smaller size, lower poverty and higher scores are a huge plus.

ADVANCED language studies, DCI offers classes for students who have been in a French, Chinese or Spanish program since grade school (they also have to offer beginner or intermediate levels in each).

I didn't say Adams was bad. IMO it's ridiculous to try and compare the relative merits of a school with 70 students per grade who have been together since kindergarten with one that has 200+ students coming from 5 feeders, each with a different curriculum as well as students entering from outside their feeder via the lottery.

Exactly, I don’t know what the point of bringing up Adams is. Just to prove that there is a dcps school that is better than DCI? So what? Try getting in. And your data point of one does not disprove the point above about DCI being better than most neighborhood MS and HS. Yes that’s neighborhoods serving outside the most elite upper income part of Dc.

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Anonymous wrote:DCI is really good and getting better every year! It appears to take a couple of years for the kids from a couple of the feeders to settle into IB and behavioral norms. It's tough--lots of differences between the feeders and then the joys of middle schoolers to boot....The real success is seen at the HS level: the kids have adapted to a big school, IB, and adolescence! Our child has thrived there and wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

Come on, we're always mired in relativism in DC public. I once taught at the Richard Montgomery IB Diploma program in Rockville, which is so far ahead of DCI in offering challenge to the strongest students that there's really no basis for comparison.

If your metric for measuring DCI's high school performance is the performance of the in-boundary DCPS programs the students are avoiding, OK, you win. Real success.

Reality is DCI is a hell of a lot better than almost all public middle and non test in high school in the city. One could argue about Deal & Wilson but they have major problems now with overcrowding, large class sizes, and honors for all in Wilson which is a mess and counter to differentiating kids. Unfortunately that’s the reality of things

Adams is much better than DCI. Full stop.

Adams isn't offering 3 advanced languages. It is far smaller. And its at-risk and economically disadvantaged student populations are lower.

You are a prime example of people posting on DCUM with no actual knowledge of the topic. In addition to Spanish, Adams offers daily Mandarin instruction to 6th through 8th graders who qualify (they must test at or above grade level in all subjects by the end of 5th grade). Adams also offers its students a 2 week trip language immersion trip to Beijing.

Adams smaller size, lower poverty and higher scores are a huge plus.

ADVANCED language studies, DCI offers classes for students who have been in a French, Chinese or Spanish program since grade school (they also have to offer beginner or intermediate levels in each).

I didn't say Adams was bad. IMO it's ridiculous to try and compare the relative merits of a school with 70 students per grade who have been together since kindergarten with one that has 200+ students coming from 5 feeders, each with a different curriculum as well as students entering from outside their feeder via the lottery.

Exactly, I don’t know what the point of bringing up Adams is. Just to prove that there is a dcps school that is better than DCI? So what? Try getting in. And your data point of one does not disprove the point above about DCI being better than most neighborhood MS and HS. Yes that’s neighborhoods serving outside the most elite upper income part of Dc.

Please read for understanding before commenting. The PP who brought up Adams was responding to someone who posted this about DCI:
“Reality is DCI is a hell of a lot better than almost all public middle and non test in high school in the city.”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We are a MV family of 5+ years, and I would advise families - if they have a choice - to go elsewhere.
I feel like we've been duped.
They constantly tout their waitlist numbers - as that is, by far, their most impressive data point.
An Academic Review Committee, comprised of parents, who are also education professionals, was formed this year, and the data that they found was mind-blowing.
As in, mind-blowingly bad.
Long story short, of the five language immersion elementary charters that feed into DCI, MV students are the lowest scoring and lowest performing.
We hope that, with the formation of the new Union, things might improve, but it will take time.
The grading system changes from year to year, so there is no comparing apples to apples longitudinally. As pathetic as it sounds, I've given up on trying to figure out how my child is performing against the Common Core standards.
It is not uncommon - at all - for teachers to leave midyear (this has happened twice for my child) - yet the school does an incredibly poor job of conveying what is happening, what has happened, and what the plan is moving forward.
And regarding the principal, she told me herself that she was leaving because of organizational culture issues.
She, herself, was a teacher at MV, prior to being appointed principal, and I'm sure walked a difficult line in understanding teachers' needs and frustrations, yet not being able to adequately serve them as a school leader. Many families feel that she was always set up for failure.
Fortunately, we have just one more year...

What data are we talking about? 5th PARCC scores? Or did the committee have access to different data that's comparable across schools that have different curricula, different language, etc.? I'm a MV parent and want to understand what data was mind-blowingly bad that hasn't been shared with the whole school community.

MV parent here re Academic Review Committee. I think they looked at all the data the school had provided and dis-aggregated it. It was a parent who works in educational statistics who presented it to the Mundo board at an open board meeting in May. They said they wanted to begin a conversation with the board and admin about where to go next, so maybe that's why no one in Padres sent it to the full school community?

Academic Review is part of the Mundo Padres (parent org), so you should be able to email their leadership and get the raw data and the committee's analysis. Padres hasn't communicated anything about where the work of the committee is right now, and I'm not a teacher or ed professional, so I'm not on the committee.

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Anonymous wrote:DCI is really good and getting better every year! It appears to take a couple of years for the kids from a couple of the feeders to settle into IB and behavioral norms. It's tough--lots of differences between the feeders and then the joys of middle schoolers to boot....The real success is seen at the HS level: the kids have adapted to a big school, IB, and adolescence! Our child has thrived there and wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

Come on, we're always mired in relativism in DC public. I once taught at the Richard Montgomery IB Diploma program in Rockville, which is so far ahead of DCI in offering challenge to the strongest students that there's really no basis for comparison.

If your metric for measuring DCI's high school performance is the performance of the in-boundary DCPS programs the students are avoiding, OK, you win. Real success.

Reality is DCI is a hell of a lot better than almost all public middle and non test in high school in the city. One could argue about Deal & Wilson but they have major problems now with overcrowding, large class sizes, and honors for all in Wilson which is a mess and counter to differentiating kids. Unfortunately that’s the reality of things

Adams is much better than DCI. Full stop.

Adams isn't offering 3 advanced languages. It is far smaller. And its at-risk and economically disadvantaged student populations are lower.

You are a prime example of people posting on DCUM with no actual knowledge of the topic. In addition to Spanish, Adams offers daily Mandarin instruction to 6th through 8th graders who qualify (they must test at or above grade level in all subjects by the end of 5th grade). Adams also offers its students a 2 week trip language immersion trip to Beijing.

Adams smaller size, lower poverty and higher scores are a huge plus.

ADVANCED language studies, DCI offers classes for students who have been in a French, Chinese or Spanish program since grade school (they also have to offer beginner or intermediate levels in each).

I didn't say Adams was bad. IMO it's ridiculous to try and compare the relative merits of a school with 70 students per grade who have been together since kindergarten with one that has 200+ students coming from 5 feeders, each with a different curriculum as well as students entering from outside their feeder via the lottery.

Exactly, I don’t know what the point of bringing up Adams is. Just to prove that there is a dcps school that is better than DCI? So what? Try getting in. And your data point of one does not disprove the point above about DCI being better than most neighborhood MS and HS. Yes that’s neighborhoods serving outside the most elite upper income part of Dc.

Please read for understanding before commenting. The PP who brought up Adams was responding to someone who posted this about DCI:
“Reality is DCI is a hell of a lot better than almost all public middle and non test in high school in the city.”

One of the sad sack oyster Adams posters (I suspect they work there) posted about Adams to brag about their low poverty (see above I wasn’t paraphrasing) without mentioning the fact that they force out special ed students and treat poor latinos like trash. Any school or person who brags about Low poverty and kicks out struggling students is trash full stop. The poor quality of Spanish instruction and awful, snobby parent community is yet another reason to avoid this overrated dcps.

Dci has the IB curriculum, which is truly advanced.

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Anonymous wrote:DCI is really good and getting better every year! It appears to take a couple of years for the kids from a couple of the feeders to settle into IB and behavioral norms. It's tough--lots of differences between the feeders and then the joys of middle schoolers to boot....The real success is seen at the HS level: the kids have adapted to a big school, IB, and adolescence! Our child has thrived there and wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

Come on, we're always mired in relativism in DC public. I once taught at the Richard Montgomery IB Diploma program in Rockville, which is so far ahead of DCI in offering challenge to the strongest students that there's really no basis for comparison.

If your metric for measuring DCI's high school performance is the performance of the in-boundary DCPS programs the students are avoiding, OK, you win. Real success.

Reality is DCI is a hell of a lot better than almost all public middle and non test in high school in the city. One could argue about Deal & Wilson but they have major problems now with overcrowding, large class sizes, and honors for all in Wilson which is a mess and counter to differentiating kids. Unfortunately that’s the reality of things

Adams is much better than DCI. Full stop.

Adams isn't offering 3 advanced languages. It is far smaller. And its at-risk and economically disadvantaged student populations are lower.

You are a prime example of people posting on DCUM with no actual knowledge of the topic. In addition to Spanish, Adams offers daily Mandarin instruction to 6th through 8th graders who qualify (they must test at or above grade level in all subjects by the end of 5th grade). Adams also offers its students a 2 week trip language immersion trip to Beijing.

Adams smaller size, lower poverty and higher scores are a huge plus.

ADVANCED language studies, DCI offers classes for students who have been in a French, Chinese or Spanish program since grade school (they also have to offer beginner or intermediate levels in each).

I didn't say Adams was bad. IMO it's ridiculous to try and compare the relative merits of a school with 70 students per grade who have been together since kindergarten with one that has 200+ students coming from 5 feeders, each with a different curriculum as well as students entering from outside their feeder via the lottery.

Exactly, I don’t know what the point of bringing up Adams is. Just to prove that there is a dcps school that is better than DCI? So what? Try getting in. And your data point of one does not disprove the point above about DCI being better than most neighborhood MS and HS. Yes that’s neighborhoods serving outside the most elite upper income part of Dc.

Please read for understanding before commenting. The PP who brought up Adams was responding to someone who posted this about DCI:
“Reality is DCI is a hell of a lot better than almost all public middle and non test in high school in the city.”

One of the sad sack oyster Adams posters (I suspect they work there) posted about Adams to brag about their low poverty (see above I wasn’t paraphrasing) without mentioning the fact that they force out special ed students and treat poor latinos like trash. Any school or person who brags about Low poverty and kicks out struggling students is trash full stop. The poor quality of Spanish instruction and awful, snobby parent community is yet another reason to avoid this overrated dcps.

Dci has the IB curriculum, which is truly advanced.

The Oyster Stalker has returned! If you are inclined to believe anything the Oyster Stalker posts, please do everyone a favor and sign your child up for DCI.

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Anonymous wrote:DCI is really good and getting better every year! It appears to take a couple of years for the kids from a couple of the feeders to settle into IB and behavioral norms. It's tough--lots of differences between the feeders and then the joys of middle schoolers to boot....The real success is seen at the HS level: the kids have adapted to a big school, IB, and adolescence! Our child has thrived there and wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

Come on, we're always mired in relativism in DC public. I once taught at the Richard Montgomery IB Diploma program in Rockville, which is so far ahead of DCI in offering challenge to the strongest students that there's really no basis for comparison.

If your metric for measuring DCI's high school performance is the performance of the in-boundary DCPS programs the students are avoiding, OK, you win. Real success.

Reality is DCI is a hell of a lot better than almost all public middle and non test in high school in the city. One could argue about Deal & Wilson but they have major problems now with overcrowding, large class sizes, and honors for all in Wilson which is a mess and counter to differentiating kids. Unfortunately that’s the reality of things

Adams is much better than DCI. Full stop.

Adams isn't offering 3 advanced languages. It is far smaller. And its at-risk and economically disadvantaged student populations are lower.

You are a prime example of people posting on DCUM with no actual knowledge of the topic. In addition to Spanish, Adams offers daily Mandarin instruction to 6th through 8th graders who qualify (they must test at or above grade level in all subjects by the end of 5th grade). Adams also offers its students a 2 week trip language immersion trip to Beijing.

Adams smaller size, lower poverty and higher scores are a huge plus.

ADVANCED language studies, DCI offers classes for students who have been in a French, Chinese or Spanish program since grade school (they also have to offer beginner or intermediate levels in each).

I didn't say Adams was bad. IMO it's ridiculous to try and compare the relative merits of a school with 70 students per grade who have been together since kindergarten with one that has 200+ students coming from 5 feeders, each with a different curriculum as well as students entering from outside their feeder via the lottery.

Exactly, I don’t know what the point of bringing up Adams is. Just to prove that there is a dcps school that is better than DCI? So what? Try getting in. And your data point of one does not disprove the point above about DCI being better than most neighborhood MS and HS. Yes that’s neighborhoods serving outside the most elite upper income part of Dc.

Please read for understanding before commenting. The PP who brought up Adams was responding to someone who posted this about DCI:
“Reality is DCI is a hell of a lot better than almost all public middle and non test in high school in the city.”

One of the sad sack oyster Adams posters (I suspect they work there) posted about Adams to brag about their low poverty (see above I wasn’t paraphrasing) without mentioning the fact that they force out special ed students and treat poor latinos like trash. Any school or person who brags about Low poverty and kicks out struggling students is trash full stop. The poor quality of Spanish instruction and awful, snobby parent community is yet another reason to avoid this overrated dcps.

Dci has the IB curriculum, which is truly advanced.

The Oyster Stalker has returned! If you are inclined to believe anything the Oyster Stalker posts, please do everyone a favor and sign your child up for DCI.

Call people names all you want. For years multiple posters have talked about the abusive tactics oyster uses against kids, especially poor kids and kids who struggle. There is no “one stalker” despite PP’s lies. A school that kicks out kids who struggle routinely and trashes poor kids is a garbage school. If you can’t educate all kids your doors should close. Despite kicking out kids they don’t want, Adams is still seriously mediocre.