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.

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.

Oyster Stalker: It’s unfortunate that your kid couldn’t cut it academically at Oyster Adams. My children have thrived there, both socially and academically. According to your logic, my children are only doing well because they are neurotypical and not poor.
Be best!

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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.”

Yup read that. Responded directly to it. The Adams comment in no way disproves this quote.

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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.

Oyster Stalker: It’s unfortunate that your kid couldn’t cut it academically at Oyster Adams. My children have thrived there, both socially and academically. According to your logic, my children are only doing well because they are neurotypical and not poor.
Be best!

No one cares about your kids or you.

Can we get back to talk about Mundo or dci?

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You DCI and Oyster parents are the BEST!

Wait! Look! You have something in common. I bet you are all so happy to be so alike.

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I figure I’d go to the special needs forum to learn more about how dci handles sped kids but since we were talking about how oyster Adams fails sped kids i wondered if anyone could speak to dci?

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Anonymous wrote:I figure I’d go to the special needs forum to learn more about how dci handles sped kids but since we were talking about how oyster Adams fails sped kids i wondered if anyone could speak to dci?

I have 3 friends whose DCI MS + HS kids have ADHD (1 inattentive type, 2 combined type). All like the 504/IEP coordinators and have no complaints about their plans. But implementation is spotty with some teachers 'getting it' at all and a couple flatly refusing to accept a diagnosis and accomodations (admin has repeatedly told them they have to). At least one of those parents is actively seeking a private school for HS because they are 'done.'

DCI certainly not the only MS/HS which doesn't do this well. It is far more complicated starting in MS because students have so many different teachers and if falls to the students to do self-advocate.

No clue how children with other diagnoses are faring.

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Anonymous wrote:I figure I’d go to the special needs forum to learn more about how dci handles sped kids but since we were talking about how oyster Adams fails sped kids i wondered if anyone could speak to dci?

I have 3 friends whose DCI MS + HS kids have ADHD (1 inattentive type, 2 combined type). All like the 504/IEP coordinators and have no complaints about their plans. But implementation is spotty with some teachers 'getting it' at all and a couple flatly refusing to accept a diagnosis and accomodations (admin has repeatedly told them they have to). At least one of those parents is actively seeking a private school for HS because they are 'done.'

DCI certainly not the only MS/HS which doesn't do this well. It is far more complicated starting in MS because students have so many different teachers and if falls to the students to do self-advocate.

No clue how children with other diagnoses are faring.

Interesting. I will be investigating this further. My feeder is doing a great job, and at the very least they aren’t asked to leave!

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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.

Oyster Stalker: It’s unfortunate that your kid couldn’t cut it academically at Oyster Adams. My children have thrived there, both socially and academically. According to your logic, my children are only doing well because they are neurotypical and not poor.
Be best!

No one cares about your kids or you.

Can we get back to talk about Mundo or dci?

Yes, please get back to Mundo/DCI and stay there! As long as you don’t invoke OA’s name on this thread, you won’t have to worry about OA parents commenting.

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Cleveland is a terrific school for dual language. Fantastic teachers. My kids are thriving and their Spanish amazes.

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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.

But DCI is offering "3 advanced languages" in name only, while I understand that Adams truly offers advanced Spanish. As a native Mandarin speakers who has recently volunteered at DCI Chinese track events, I've been unimpressed with how even the most "advanced" Chinese students who've been studying the language for up to 11 years can speak Mandarin. The reality is that my first grader speaks with far greater fluency than these teenagers. No native Chinese speakers have yet to enroll at DCI. We've heard similar reports the dismal situation with French instruction.

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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.

But DCI is offering "3 advanced languages" in name only, while I understand that Adams truly offers advanced Spanish. As a native Mandarin speakers who has recently volunteered at DCI Chinese track events, I've been unimpressed with how even the most "advanced" Chinese students who've been studying the language for up to 11 years can speak Mandarin. The reality is that my first grader speaks with far greater fluency than these teenagers. No native Chinese speakers have yet to enroll at DCI. We've heard similar reports the dismal situation with French instruction.

OA doesn’t teach written grammar until middle school so, I doubt that they have “truly advanced” grammar.

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Ah

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Anonymous wrote:Cleveland is a terrific school for dual language. Fantastic teachers. My kids are thriving and their Spanish amazes.

What grade?