the DC International Public Charter School (DCI)

[Anonymous]

you do know that you have little to no chance of getting into DCI, right? It is a feeder for the charter members' students and there will be only a few number of slots available for lottery by outsiders. hope you get lucky but i wouldn't bet on getting in.....

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Complete outsider here, but tired of all of the Sela BS. Who the hell cares if Sela or Timbuktu wants to be in the DCI? Why is it so awful for them to desire this. Isn't it a high school for language learners? Won't they need one? Duh! If outside kids don't care about Hebrew, don't chose to study it in their schedules. Simple. Leave Sela alone (remember that guy who cried over Britney bashing?) Leave. Sela. Alone!

You're totally right! Just one thing though... in order to leave Sela alone, Sela folks need to not come into every.DCI.thread. talking about being part of DCI. It's totally understandable Sela wants to join, understandable DCI wants lots of languages. Can we be done then? But check the threads, it is ALWAYS a Sela booster who starts the conversation about Sela in DCI. Some of us are just tired of wanting to read about DCI and it always ending up a Sela conversation, so I'm with you, let's leave Sela alone, but hello, can Sela leave DCI threads alone for once too?

You are making the assumption that it is Sela parents making those comments. You know what happens when you assume...

No, actually I am NOT making that assumption. I am talking about anyone and everyone who comes on DCI threads saying "What a great match Sela will be/would be, this will really fit". I don't know if they are Sela parents, affiliated with the administration, or just interested parties such as yourself. But what I do know (because it's here in writing for everyone to see) is that there are people who do this every single time DCI is discussed. THOSE are the people I'm talking about. So, take your own advice, stop making assumptions about who I think this is. Because you know what happens when you assume...

Re: those Sela boosters who come on every DCI thread, I want to be clear re: my post anyway, that they are totally welcome to that opinion. Seriously, that is what DCUM is for, expressing opinions. But it is totally disingenous to then get sad-faced or cry "CODE!" every timesaying that it predictably opens a conversation about whether Hebrew makes sense as a language for DCI. It doesn't matter if most people actually involved with DCI think every language is a good language - this conversation is happening here, on DCUM, and there are apparently a lot of posters who think it would be a great fit, and a lot who think it is hardly a priority language, and lots (like me) who don't care but would like to be able to read a DCI thread without reading this discussion every time. Yes, I just added again to that discussion, but this is the first one of these threads where I have said anything about this so since everyone else is weighing in, me too. This will be it for me on this topic, but I leave with a sincere hope that Sela thinks about how it is represented in these conversations. For every parent that expresses an opinion in any direction on this, there are many who say nothing but have lasting impressions. For better or worse, and I'm thinking for many it's worse.

No one is making assumptions about what you mean - it is a direct quote from your post "Sela folks need to not come into every.DCI.thread. talking about being part of DCI. It's totally understandable Sela wants to join, understandable DCI wants lots of languages. Can we be done then? But check the threads, it is ALWAYS a Sela booster who starts the conversation about Sela in DCI."

Those are your actual words.

Yet, here I am: not "Sela folks" not "wanting to join" not a "Sela booster."

Your message is essentially "I don't want to read about Sela, so stop writing about Sela." I'd like to propose the more logical alternative "If you don't want to read about Sela, then stop reading about Sela."

[Anonymous]

Hey guys---
isn't this thread supposed to be about DCI? maybe you two could carry the fight on to another thread?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hey guys---
isn't this thread supposed to be about DCI? maybe you two could carry the fight on to another thread?

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hey guys---
isn't this thread supposed to be about DCI? maybe you two could carry the fight on to another thread?

Gosh, I totally agree. I wish those who wish to discuss Selah start a new thread. As far as I know, at this time DCI consists of Lamb, Stokes, YY, MV and DC Bilingual. And, it will be interesting to see how they pull this off with all the different personalities running the vairous schools. Which administrator or director from the five schools will take the lead. Who will do all the hiring. Who will shape DCI. Will there be more male teachers at DCI. Those are some of the things I want to know about DCI. If I want to know about Selah, I will go to a Selah thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:you do know that you have little to no chance of getting into DCI, right? It is a feeder for the charter members' students and there will be only a few number of slots available for lottery by outsiders. hope you get lucky but i wouldn't bet on getting in.....

So, true. Most of your children will not get in, will flunk out, or go private. It is DC, after all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:you do know that you have little to no chance of getting into DCI, right? It is a feeder for the charter members' students and there will be only a few number of slots available for lottery by outsiders. hope you get lucky but i wouldn't bet on getting in.....

So, true. Most of your children will not get in, will flunk out, or go private. It is DC, after all.

There will probalby be less spaces now that DC Bilingual will be added.

[Anonymous]

I understand part of the reason for even forming DCI is to have a great language school but also have the enrollment to counteract attrition. What is the vision for how students in upper grades will be added? Do I remember correctly that there won't be testing in re: language proficiency, so what happens if you join as a high school student?

And if they don't let anyone in in high school, what happens if most students go to other schools (don't ask which one, I am asking hypothetically) and there aren't the numbers for high school classes?

[Anonymous]

Or, what happens at the upper grades if they keep adding schools and everyone stays? Do we end up with a lottery to see if our kids get to stay?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hey guys---
isn't this thread supposed to be about DCI? maybe you two could carry the fight on to another thread?

Gosh, I totally agree. I wish those who wish to discuss Selah start a new thread. As far as I know, at this time DCI consists of Lamb, Stokes, YY, MV and DC Bilingual. And, it will be interesting to see how they pull this off with all the different personalities running the vairous schools. Which administrator or director from the five schools will take the lead. Who will do all the hiring. Who will shape DCI. Will there be more male teachers at DCI. Those are some of the things I want to know about DCI. If I want to know about Selah, I will go to a Selah thread.

This X 1,000!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I understand part of the reason for even forming DCI is to have a great language school but also have the enrollment to counteract attrition. What is the vision for how students in upper grades will be added? Do I remember correctly that there won't be testing in re: language proficiency, so what happens if you join as a high school student?

And if they don't let anyone in in high school, what happens if most students go to other schools (don't ask which one, I am asking hypothetically) and there aren't the numbers for high school classes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hey guys---
isn't this thread supposed to be about DCI? maybe you two could carry the fight on to another thread?

Gosh, I totally agree. I wish those who wish to discuss Selah start a new thread. As far as I know, at this time DCI consists of Lamb, Stokes, YY, MV and DC Bilingual. And, it will be interesting to see how they pull this off with all the different personalities running the vairous schools. Which administrator or director from the five schools will take the lead. Who will do all the hiring. Who will shape DCI. Will there be more male teachers at DCI. Those are some of the things I want to know about DCI. If I want to know about Selah, I will go to a Selah thread.

-          Committees have already been formed and are working on financing, facilities, curriculum, etc.

-          A management team will be hired to run DCI.  The individual schools would each have one trustee on the board, in addition to other board members.

-          DCI would be in temporary space to start.  Eventually the plan is for DCI to move to Walter Reed and utilize the space that Yu Ying was awarded. 

[Anonymous]

Thanks pp! One small correction: Walter Reed space was awarded to YY and to LAMB.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:you do know that you have little to no chance of getting into DCI, right? It is a feeder for the charter members' students and there will be only a few number of slots available for lottery by outsiders. hope you get lucky but i wouldn't bet on getting in.....

So, true. Most of your children will not get in, will flunk out, or go private. It is DC, after all.

My DS is currently at a Spanish private, doubt he'd flunk out. There sure is a lot of assuming going on in this thread. The school hasn't even opened yet and you're assuming the school will have zero attrition and be filled with geniuses that are perfect in their respective languages. Like I said, I'm just observing at this point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks pp! One small correction: Walter Reed space was awarded to YY and to LAMB.

Correct, but DCI will be held in the space that YY was awarded. LAMB's space will stay only LAMB, used for PK/elementary.

LAMB's space at Walter Reed will be not be used for DCI.