DCI Parent Petition

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Non-DCI parent here, but my son is in a feeder school and I hope he will attend middle and high school there in a few years. In DCI, I want:
- High quality and stable teachers and leaders who run an academically rigorous school that will prepare my child to achieve to his potential
- A safe school with a strong culture, where students who want to learn aren't constantly disrupted by students who don't
- The continuation of a rigorous foreign language program
- Strong, hands-on science classes with labs. Rigorous history courses. Reasonably good extra-curriculars

I also want my child to go to a diverse school where he will be expected to be kind to others and leave the world a bit better than he found it. But a school that teaches to a high standard and also sets a high standard for student behavior (and has strong accountability systems to ensure both) are my top two priorities. Why doesx this seem so hard for middle and high schools to get right?

SOME staff are ideologically opposed to sacrificing “equity” for rigor- it’s not purely an either or thing at all, but when the equity goals conflict with what we know produces good academic outcomes (eg, streaming based on test scores might lead some groups to be underrepresented in advanced classes)- many many staff and admin choose equity over rigor.

Actually, DCI has shown you can have equity and rigor.

What’s destroying rigor at DCI right now isn’t an ideology. It’s losing both IB coordinators, cutting staff development 41%, and driving out 125 staff in two years.

That’s a leadership problem. Not an equity problem.

This is absolutely it. New leadership and possibly even a new Board is what is needed.