DCI?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think if you got into a DCI feeder, you might as well jump for joy. We have a spot in a DCI feeder and a spot in an incredibly coveted school and are choosing the DCI feeder. Our reasoning is as follows:

(1) middle school/high school options are slim. I don't want to take the chance and hope for a spot at Latin (which meh). Our inbounds is terrible.

(2) language. If this is important, DCI feeders are the only way to go. None of the DCPS language schools have anywhere near as good a combo of interesting curriculum, language support, and feeder with language support.

I think it will only get harder and harder to get a good spot in a school. Really think about it.

Lol--#2 is NOT true. You're trying too hard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think if you got into a DCI feeder, you might as well jump for joy. We have a spot in a DCI feeder and a spot in an incredibly coveted school and are choosing the DCI feeder. Our reasoning is as follows:

(1) middle school/high school options are slim. I don't want to take the chance and hope for a spot at Latin (which meh). Our inbounds is terrible.

(2) language. If this is important, DCI feeders are the only way to go. None of the DCPS language schools have anywhere near as good a combo of interesting curriculum, language support, and feeder with language support.

I think it will only get harder and harder to get a good spot in a school. Really think about it.

Lol--#2 is NOT true. You're trying too hard.

There is literally no DCPS remotely as good as the charter language schools. And for middle school? None. Adams is a joke, and if you decline Adams you end up at hardy. McFarland doesn't exist.

I would not send a dog to a DCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think if you got into a DCI feeder, you might as well jump for joy. We have a spot in a DCI feeder and a spot in an incredibly coveted school and are choosing the DCI feeder. Our reasoning is as follows:

(1) middle school/high school options are slim. I don't want to take the chance and hope for a spot at Latin (which meh). Our inbounds is terrible.

(2) language. If this is important, DCI feeders are the only way to go. None of the DCPS language schools have anywhere near as good a combo of interesting curriculum, language support, and feeder with language support.

I think it will only get harder and harder to get a good spot in a school. Really think about it.

Lol--#2 is NOT true. You're trying too hard.

Feel free to post some facts. There is literally no DCPS immersion school with an interesting curriculum, grammar taught as a foundation, and a solid middle and high school feeder pattern. Sorry those are just facts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think if you got into a DCI feeder, you might as well jump for joy. We have a spot in a DCI feeder and a spot in an incredibly coveted school and are choosing the DCI feeder. Our reasoning is as follows:

(1) middle school/high school options are slim. I don't want to take the chance and hope for a spot at Latin (which meh). Our inbounds is terrible.

(2) language. If this is important, DCI feeders are the only way to go. None of the DCPS language schools have anywhere near as good a combo of interesting curriculum, language support, and feeder with language support.

I think it will only get harder and harder to get a good spot in a school. Really think about it.

Lol--#2 is NOT true. You're trying too hard.

Feel free to post some facts. There is literally no DCPS immersion school with an interesting curriculum, grammar taught as a foundation, and a solid middle and high school feeder pattern. Sorry those are just facts.

Sorry, you're just wrong. Btw, your post is extremely fact free.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think if you got into a DCI feeder, you might as well jump for joy. We have a spot in a DCI feeder and a spot in an incredibly coveted school and are choosing the DCI feeder. Our reasoning is as follows:

(1) middle school/high school options are slim. I don't want to take the chance and hope for a spot at Latin (which meh). Our inbounds is terrible.

(2) language. If this is important, DCI feeders are the only way to go. None of the DCPS language schools have anywhere near as good a combo of interesting curriculum, language support, and feeder with language support.

I think it will only get harder and harder to get a good spot in a school. Really think about it.

Lol--#2 is NOT true. You're trying too hard.

Feel free to post some facts. There is literally no DCPS immersion school with an interesting curriculum, grammar taught as a foundation, and a solid middle and high school feeder pattern. Sorry those are just facts.

DCI does not offer a solid middle or high school. It is an experiment, and your children are the guinea pigs. No one with real options (good IB schools) or money would choose DCI over Adams for middle or WIS, Sidwell (Chinese program), Holton (Global Studies) or Rochambeau for high school. Good luck with that situation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think if you got into a DCI feeder, you might as well jump for joy. We have a spot in a DCI feeder and a spot in an incredibly coveted school and are choosing the DCI feeder. Our reasoning is as follows:

(1) middle school/high school options are slim. I don't want to take the chance and hope for a spot at Latin (which meh). Our inbounds is terrible.

(2) language. If this is important, DCI feeders are the only way to go. None of the DCPS language schools have anywhere near as good a combo of interesting curriculum, language support, and feeder with language support.

I think it will only get harder and harder to get a good spot in a school. Really think about it.

Lol--#2 is NOT true. You're trying too hard.

Feel free to post some facts. There is literally no DCPS immersion school with an interesting curriculum, grammar taught as a foundation, and a solid middle and high school feeder pattern. Sorry those are just facts.

Define interesting curriculum? Which schools implement this curriculum?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think if you got into a DCI feeder, you might as well jump for joy. We have a spot in a DCI feeder and a spot in an incredibly coveted school and are choosing the DCI feeder. Our reasoning is as follows:

(1) middle school/high school options are slim. I don't want to take the chance and hope for a spot at Latin (which meh). Our inbounds is terrible.

(2) language. If this is important, DCI feeders are the only way to go. None of the DCPS language schools have anywhere near as good a combo of interesting curriculum, language support, and feeder with language support.

I think it will only get harder and harder to get a good spot in a school. Really think about it.

Lol--#2 is NOT true. You're trying too hard.

There is literally no DCPS remotely as good as the charter language schools. And for middle school? None. Adams is a joke, and if you decline Adams you end up at hardy. McFarland doesn't exist.

I would not send a dog to a DCPS.

Oyster-Adams' students would whip feeder/DCI middle school students on any Spanish or English standardized test, as well as spoken and written Spanish, any day of the week. Proof? The long history of PARCC and DC CAS test scores. And about half the class is admitted to SWW each year. I don't know/hear of many trying to get into DCI--that would be a demotion.

[Anonymous]

these Mid-Westerns kill me. DC will never be the same.

[Anonymous]

^^ Stop. This is a silly argument. There are and have been kids from DCI feeders at Adams, SWW, Wilson, Banneker, Basis, Sidwell and GDS. DCI didn't exist 3 years ago and had a long way to go to prove itself.

Also, the DCI feeders are 5 different schools with different curriculums and varying results (measured by PARCC). No more relevant to lump them together than it would be to lump Tyler, Powell, Cleveland and Oyster.

[Anonymous]

Are the language immersion schools (MV, YY, LAMB, etc) true feeders to DCI, or do you just get a preference in the lottery for DCI if you went to one of those schools? I was under the impression that you could go to DCI as of right if you went to the member schools, but then I was reading somewhere (DCI's website? I can't recall) that's just a lottery preference...?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are the language immersion schools (MV, YY, LAMB, etc) true feeders to DCI, or do you just get a preference in the lottery for DCI if you went to one of those schools? I was under the impression that you could go to DCI as of right if you went to the member schools, but then I was reading somewhere (DCI's website? I can't recall) that's just a lottery preference...?

matter of right

exception is if you don't put it first on your lottery list and get into something you have ranked higher

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are the language immersion schools (MV, YY, LAMB, etc) true feeders to DCI, or do you just get a preference in the lottery for DCI if you went to one of those schools? I was under the impression that you could go to DCI as of right if you went to the member schools, but then I was reading somewhere (DCI's website? I can't recall) that's just a lottery preference...?

matter of right

exception is if you don't put it first on your lottery list and get into something you have ranked higher

Not quite. A matter of right only if you list it first. If you put anything else above DCI, you lose the preference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are the language immersion schools (MV, YY, LAMB, etc) true feeders to DCI, or do you just get a preference in the lottery for DCI if you went to one of those schools? I was under the impression that you could go to DCI as of right if you went to the member schools, but then I was reading somewhere (DCI's website? I can't recall) that's just a lottery preference...?

matter of right

exception is if you don't put it first on your lottery list and get into something you have ranked higher

Not quite. A matter of right only if you list it first. If you put anything else above DCI, you lose the preference.

I see. Thanks, PPs.