DCI's first graduating class

[Anonymous]

What beautiful kids! It's nice to see so many chose HBCUs. Congrats to them all!

[Anonymous]

This exact conversation took place about Latin's first graduating class and it was just as ugly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What beautiful kids! It's nice to see so many chose HBCUs. Congrats to them all!

The best thing about DC TAG is that it includes HBCUs. Too bad they haven’t changed the amounts to reflect inflation!

[Anonymous]

I am a DCI parent and I want to congratulate these students! I am happy that it appears that they chose schools that likely have some strong appeal to them. The schools may not be the elite schools that we all seem to think our children need to attend, but they are high-quality schools that I would be happy with for my child (and I don't think believing that your child does not need to attend an elite school means your expectations are lower for them. There are excellent non-elite schools that might be a much better fit for your child). I am proud of DCI for highlighting each student's choice as well.

[Anonymous]

You bleeding hearts can't see the forest for the trees here.

Nobody's attacking the first DCI graduates on this thread. What concerns parents like me is that the strongest 4th grade students at our feeder, and most of the other feeders apparently, are mostly jumping ship before 6th grade at DCI. The arrangement just doesn't bode well for the development of the International Baccalaureate Diploma program there. Why can't DCI send graduates to elite colleges, starting next year? They can't because they haven't been aiming high from the get go (come on, no real academic tracking in middle school).

In a nutshell, it sucks when you've been knocking yourself out to ensure that your kid's language skills are decent for 6 or 7 years, only to find that your only good middle school option in the DC public system for math, ELA, social studies etc. is probably BASIS. That program doesn't even teach foreign languages before 7th grade, and then only at the beginning level.

DCI admins are letting us down, period.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You bleeding hearts can't see the forest for the trees here.

Nobody's attacking the first DCI graduates on this thread. What concerns parents like me is that the strongest 4th grade students at our feeder, and most of the other feeders apparently, are mostly jumping ship before 6th grade at DCI. The arrangement just doesn't bode well for the development of the International Baccalaureate Diploma program there. Why can't DCI send graduates to elite colleges, starting next year? They can't because they haven't been aiming high from the get go (come on, no real academic tracking in middle school).

In a nutshell, it sucks when you've been knocking yourself out to ensure that your kid's language skills are decent for 6 or 7 years, only to find that your only good middle school option in the DC public system for math, ELA, social studies etc. is probably BASIS. That program doesn't even teach foreign languages before 7th grade, and then only at the beginning level.

DCI admins are letting us down, period.

There are several posts here that are doing just that, calling them "weak graduating cohorts" etc. and diminishing their accomplishments. It comes off as just really petty and mean-spirited, and doesn't really engender sympathy to your cause (native speaker lotteries).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This exact conversation took place about Latin's first graduating class and it was just as ugly.

Yep. Give DCI a chance. This is a great start!

[Anonymous]

Off topic, but I thought DCI did a fantastic job with distance learning compared to DCPS and many other schools. Students were already outfitted with Chromebooks and the teachers didn't, who are already tech savvy, didn't have as much as a learning curve as others to get up and running with remote lessons. It wasn't perfect, but from 9-2:30 my kid had structure every day. Congratulations to the first class of graduates from DCI!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You bleeding hearts can't see the forest for the trees here.

Nobody's attacking the first DCI graduates on this thread. What concerns parents like me is that the strongest 4th grade students at our feeder, and most of the other feeders apparently, are mostly jumping ship before 6th grade at DCI. The arrangement just doesn't bode well for the development of the International Baccalaureate Diploma program there. Why can't DCI send graduates to elite colleges, starting next year? They can't because they haven't been aiming high from the get go (come on, no real academic tracking in middle school).

In a nutshell, it sucks when you've been knocking yourself out to ensure that your kid's language skills are decent for 6 or 7 years, only to find that your only good middle school option in the DC public system for math, ELA, social studies etc. is probably BASIS. That program doesn't even teach foreign languages before 7th grade, and then only at the beginning level.

DCI admins are letting us down, period.

There are several posts here that are doing just that, calling them "weak graduating cohorts" etc. and diminishing their accomplishments. It comes off as just really petty and mean-spirited, and doesn't really engender sympathy to your cause (native speaker lotteries).

NP. Give us a break. Graduating from a public HS to enroll in community college is hardly the worst outcome for a low-income minority student in a jurisdiction where around 60% of high school-age students fail to graduate. But it's not too hot coming out of a supposedly high-powered International Baccalaureate Diploma program. My ire is reserved for the DCPCS Board, the city council members, the last several DC mayors, the DCI Board, and the boards of the feeder schools.

We were promised a rigorous PreK-12th grade education in the DCI pyramid that we aren't getting. I don't have a cause: I have a plan to ensure that my bright children have a shot at attending elite colleges. Avoiding DCI seems imperative, not how I was thinking when we started in a feeder six or seven years ago.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You bleeding hearts can't see the forest for the trees here.

Nobody's attacking the first DCI graduates on this thread. What concerns parents like me is that the strongest 4th grade students at our feeder, and most of the other feeders apparently, are mostly jumping ship before 6th grade at DCI. The arrangement just doesn't bode well for the development of the International Baccalaureate Diploma program there. Why can't DCI send graduates to elite colleges, starting next year? They can't because they haven't been aiming high from the get go (come on, no real academic tracking in middle school).

In a nutshell, it sucks when you've been knocking yourself out to ensure that your kid's language skills are decent for 6 or 7 years, only to find that your only good middle school option in the DC public system for math, ELA, social studies etc. is probably BASIS. That program doesn't even teach foreign languages before 7th grade, and then only at the beginning level.

DCI admins are letting us down, period.

There are several posts here that are doing just that, calling them "weak graduating cohorts" etc. and diminishing their accomplishments. It comes off as just really petty and mean-spirited, and doesn't really engender sympathy to your cause (native speaker lotteries).

NP. Give us a break. Graduating from a public HS to enroll in community college is hardly the worst outcome for a low-income minority student in a jurisdiction where around 60% of high school-age students fail to graduate. But it's not too hot coming out of a supposedly high-powered International Baccalaureate Diploma program. My ire is reserved for the DCPCS Board, the city council members, the last several DC mayors, the DCI Board, and the boards of the feeder schools.

We were promised a rigorous PreK-12th grade education in the DCI pyramid that we aren't getting. I don't have a cause: I have a plan to ensure that my bright children have a shot at attending elite colleges. Avoiding DCI seems imperative, not how I was thinking when we started in a feeder six or seven years ago.

You are not a "NP" but rather the original PP in this quote. Please don't sock puppet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a DCI parent and I want to congratulate these students! I am happy that it appears that they chose schools that likely have some strong appeal to them. The schools may not be the elite schools that we all seem to think our children need to attend, but they are high-quality schools that I would be happy with for my child (and I don't think believing that your child does not need to attend an elite school means your expectations are lower for them. There are excellent non-elite schools that might be a much better fit for your child). I am proud of DCI for highlighting each student's choice as well.

Whatever.

[Anonymous]

Honestly I think kids who get into "elite" schools are the ones who will go beyond whatever their school offers. So whether they are at BASIS or DCI or Eastern or a "W" school in MoCo, they have to do more than get good grades in the hardest classes the school provides. If anything, I'd think admissions committees at the most selective schools would like to take someone motivated from DCI versus a 4th kid from Churchill or wherever. As DCI gets bigger and has more kids whose parents also went to elite schools, I think the admissions decisions will get more elite. Whether that's a good thing for those kids, or for the student body as a whole, who knows.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You bleeding hearts can't see the forest for the trees here.

Nobody's attacking the first DCI graduates on this thread. What concerns parents like me is that the strongest 4th grade students at our feeder, and most of the other feeders apparently, are mostly jumping ship before 6th grade at DCI. The arrangement just doesn't bode well for the development of the International Baccalaureate Diploma program there. Why can't DCI send graduates to elite colleges, starting next year? They can't because they haven't been aiming high from the get go (come on, no real academic tracking in middle school).

In a nutshell, it sucks when you've been knocking yourself out to ensure that your kid's language skills are decent for 6 or 7 years, only to find that your only good middle school option in the DC public system for math, ELA, social studies etc. is probably BASIS. That program doesn't even teach foreign languages before 7th grade, and then only at the beginning level.

DCI admins are letting us down, period.

There are several posts here that are doing just that, calling them "weak graduating cohorts" etc. and diminishing their accomplishments. It comes off as just really petty and mean-spirited, and doesn't really engender sympathy to your cause (native speaker lotteries).

NP. Give us a break. Graduating from a public HS to enroll in community college is hardly the worst outcome for a low-income minority student in a jurisdiction where around 60% of high school-age students fail to graduate. But it's not too hot coming out of a supposedly high-powered International Baccalaureate Diploma program. My ire is reserved for the DCPCS Board, the city council members, the last several DC mayors, the DCI Board, and the boards of the feeder schools.

We were promised a rigorous PreK-12th grade education in the DCI pyramid that we aren't getting. I don't have a cause: I have a plan to ensure that my bright children have a shot at attending elite colleges. Avoiding DCI seems imperative, not how I was thinking when we started in a feeder six or seven years ago.

Anyone who thought DCI was going to be a “high powered” IB school hasn’t paid attention. It is IB for ALL has high percentage of at-risk kids; and is running a career track as well as the diploma track. It is not measuring itself against your benchmarks.

It isn’t Richard Montgomery (a test-in magnet) or WIS (a private) and isn’t trying to be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You bleeding hearts can't see the forest for the trees here.

Nobody's attacking the first DCI graduates on this thread. What concerns parents like me is that the strongest 4th grade students at our feeder, and most of the other feeders apparently, are mostly jumping ship before 6th grade at DCI. The arrangement just doesn't bode well for the development of the International Baccalaureate Diploma program there. Why can't DCI send graduates to elite colleges, starting next year? They can't because they haven't been aiming high from the get go (come on, no real academic tracking in middle school).

In a nutshell, it sucks when you've been knocking yourself out to ensure that your kid's language skills are decent for 6 or 7 years, only to find that your only good middle school option in the DC public system for math, ELA, social studies etc. is probably BASIS. That program doesn't even teach foreign languages before 7th grade, and then only at the beginning level.

DCI admins are letting us down, period.

There are several posts here that are doing just that, calling them "weak graduating cohorts" etc. and diminishing their accomplishments. It comes off as just really petty and mean-spirited, and doesn't really engender sympathy to your cause (native speaker lotteries).

NP. Give us a break. Graduating from a public HS to enroll in community college is hardly the worst outcome for a low-income minority student in a jurisdiction where around 60% of high school-age students fail to graduate. But it's not too hot coming out of a supposedly high-powered International Baccalaureate Diploma program. My ire is reserved for the DCPCS Board, the city council members, the last several DC mayors, the DCI Board, and the boards of the feeder schools.

We were promised a rigorous PreK-12th grade education in the DCI pyramid that we aren't getting. I don't have a cause: I have a plan to ensure that my bright children have a shot at attending elite colleges. Avoiding DCI seems imperative, not how I was thinking when we started in a feeder six or seven years ago.

Anyone who thought DCI was going to be a “high powered” IB school hasn’t paid attention. It is IB for ALL has high percentage of at-risk kids; and is running a career track as well as the diploma track. It is not measuring itself against your benchmarks.

It isn’t Richard Montgomery (a test-in magnet) or WIS (a private) and isn’t trying to be.

You’re misinformed about career programme. It’s still supposed to be rigorous. Now whether or not it is at DCI is a different story.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You bleeding hearts can't see the forest for the trees here.

Nobody's attacking the first DCI graduates on this thread. What concerns parents like me is that the strongest 4th grade students at our feeder, and most of the other feeders apparently, are mostly jumping ship before 6th grade at DCI. The arrangement just doesn't bode well for the development of the International Baccalaureate Diploma program there. Why can't DCI send graduates to elite colleges, starting next year? They can't because they haven't been aiming high from the get go (come on, no real academic tracking in middle school).

In a nutshell, it sucks when you've been knocking yourself out to ensure that your kid's language skills are decent for 6 or 7 years, only to find that your only good middle school option in the DC public system for math, ELA, social studies etc. is probably BASIS. That program doesn't even teach foreign languages before 7th grade, and then only at the beginning level.

DCI admins are letting us down, period.

There are several posts here that are doing just that, calling them "weak graduating cohorts" etc. and diminishing their accomplishments. It comes off as just really petty and mean-spirited, and doesn't really engender sympathy to your cause (native speaker lotteries).

NP. Give us a break. Graduating from a public HS to enroll in community college is hardly the worst outcome for a low-income minority student in a jurisdiction where around 60% of high school-age students fail to graduate. But it's not too hot coming out of a supposedly high-powered International Baccalaureate Diploma program. My ire is reserved for the DCPCS Board, the city council members, the last several DC mayors, the DCI Board, and the boards of the feeder schools.

We were promised a rigorous PreK-12th grade education in the DCI pyramid that we aren't getting. I don't have a cause: I have a plan to ensure that my bright children have a shot at attending elite colleges. Avoiding DCI seems imperative, not how I was thinking when we started in a feeder six or seven years ago.

Well, then you’re a delusional idiot. This is public school, not some frou-frou private school catering to your “bright” children.

Your kids can get out what they put in.