DCI?

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Anonymous wrote:Future DCI parent here! If the haters are coming out the school must be good! So excited for it and the kids! See you soon when my kid starts. He's in a Spanish immersion feeder now, but is fluent in French, so I'm hoping he can take some courses in French to get a context away from home. No where else in the country would this be even a remote possibility.

Silver Spring International, and Washington International are both schools that have both French and Spanish immersions options at the middle school level, and are in this metro area. I'm sure there are many such schools around the country.

I think DCI is a great thing, and I hope it succeeds but it's not that rare of a model.

I didn't realize they combined five other charter schools.

NP, I also didn't realize those other 2 schools expect every student who goes K-12 to graduate fluent in 2 languages (English and first immersion language) PLUS proficient in a 3rd language.

It's true, there is a lot of hype around DCI that may be a bit over-excited, but PP saying "it's not that rare a model", please enlighten us where 5 bilingual charters representing 3 immersion languages collaborated to form an IB, language and "world citizen"-focused middle and high school where K-12 kids are expected to learn 3 languages? If it's not rare, name even 2 (even 1!) other similar models in the US.

Students are not expected to learn a third language at DCI. The third language is an elective.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Future DCI parent here! If the haters are coming out the school must be good! So excited for it and the kids! See you soon when my kid starts. He's in a Spanish immersion feeder now, but is fluent in French, so I'm hoping he can take some courses in French to get a context away from home. No where else in the country would this be even a remote possibility.

Silver Spring International, and Washington International are both schools that have both French and Spanish immersions options at the middle school level, and are in this metro area. I'm sure there are many such schools around the country.

I think DCI is a great thing, and I hope it succeeds but it's not that rare of a model.

Isn't WIS an exclusive private school? And Silver Spring International is a bilingual middle school? And both are French/Spanish?

That's nice, but it's not exactly in the same league as a trilingual program which includes the full HS IB Programme with the IB Diploma.

WIS is IB and offers Mandarin, French, Spanish and German. German is only for those from the German embassy. YU Ying got it's star and help,from WIS administrators, so YY, and subsequently DCI, was based on WIS model. The difference is WIS is 30k plus with a lot of international students and YY is free.

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WIS also does not offer immersion for Mandarin starting in preK4 which is why we did not bother to apply.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WIS also does not offer immersion for Mandarin starting in preK4 which is why we did not bother to apply.

It is offered as a third language in MS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Future DCI parent here! If the haters are coming out the school must be good! So excited for it and the kids! See you soon when my kid starts. He's in a Spanish immersion feeder now, but is fluent in French, so I'm hoping he can take some courses in French to get a context away from home. No where else in the country would this be even a remote possibility.

Silver Spring International, and Washington International are both schools that have both French and Spanish immersions options at the middle school level, and are in this metro area. I'm sure there are many such schools around the country.

I think DCI is a great thing, and I hope it succeeds but it's not that rare of a model.

Isn't WIS an exclusive private school? And Silver Spring International is a bilingual middle school? And both are French/Spanish?

That's nice, but it's not exactly in the same league as a trilingual program which includes the full HS IB Programme with the IB Diploma.

WIS is IB and offers Mandarin, French, Spanish and German. German is only for those from the German embassy. YU Ying got it's star and help,from WIS administrators, so YY, and subsequently DCI, was based on WIS model. The difference is WIS is 30k plus with a lot of international students and YY is free.

Correction Dutch, not German.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:WIS also does not offer immersion for Mandarin starting in preK4 which is why we did not bother to apply.

It is offered as a third language in MS.

Many schools offer Mandarin in middle school. If you want Mandarin immersion starting in preschool then Yu Ying is the only game in town, public or private.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WIS also does not offer immersion for Mandarin starting in preK4 which is why we did not bother to apply.

It is offered as a third language in MS.

Many schools offer Mandarin in middle school. If you want Mandarin immersion starting in preschool then Yu Ying is the only game in town, public or private.

Yes, it might be the only one in DC proper, I don't have contrary information, but it is not the only one inside the beltway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WIS also does not offer immersion for Mandarin starting in preK4 which is why we did not bother to apply.

It is offered as a third language in MS.

Many schools offer Mandarin in middle school. If you want Mandarin immersion starting in preschool then Yu Ying is the only game in town, public or private.

Yes, it might be the only one in DC proper, I don't have contrary information, but it is not the only one inside the beltway.

And how many kids got seats who did not have siblings preference. So YY is really only accessible to a few families, right.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:WIS also does not offer immersion for Mandarin starting in preK4 which is why we did not bother to apply.

It is offered as a third language in MS.

it's also offered at WIS as a once a week after school class in elementary school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WIS also does not offer immersion for Mandarin starting in preK4 which is why we did not bother to apply.

It is offered as a third language in MS.

Many schools offer Mandarin in middle school. If you want Mandarin immersion starting in preschool then Yu Ying is the only game in town, public or private.

Yes, it might be the only one in DC proper, I don't have contrary information, but it is not the only one inside the beltway.

It is the only one inside the beltway. I looked when we were applying for preschool since we really want Mandarin. The MoCo Chinese immersion program is by lottery (tough to get in too) but it start starts in K as do Fairfax.

The Hope Chinese school runs classes but it's not an immersion program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Future DCI parent here! If the haters are coming out the school must be good! So excited for it and the kids! See you soon when my kid starts. He's in a Spanish immersion feeder now, but is fluent in French, so I'm hoping he can take some courses in French to get a context away from home. No where else in the country would this be even a remote possibility.

Silver Spring International, and Washington International are both schools that have both French and Spanish immersions options at the middle school level, and are in this metro area. I'm sure there are many such schools around the country.

I think DCI is a great thing, and I hope it succeeds but it's not that rare of a model.

I didn't realize they combined five other charter schools.

NP, I also didn't realize those other 2 schools expect every student who goes K-12 to graduate fluent in 2 languages (English and first immersion language) PLUS proficient in a 3rd language.

It's true, there is a lot of hype around DCI that may be a bit over-excited, but PP saying "it's not that rare a model", please enlighten us where 5 bilingual charters representing 3 immersion languages collaborated to form an IB, language and "world citizen"-focused middle and high school where K-12 kids are expected to learn 3 languages? If it's not rare, name even 2 (even 1!) other similar models in the US.

Students are not expected to learn a third language at DCI. The third language is an elective.

For students feeding from an immersion school, I went to two DCI info sessions where they said they "expect" students to take on a 3rd language and graduate proficient. What's your source for it only bring an option and not an expectation?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Future DCI parent here! If the haters are coming out the school must be good! So excited for it and the kids! See you soon when my kid starts. He's in a Spanish immersion feeder now, but is fluent in French, so I'm hoping he can take some courses in French to get a context away from home. No where else in the country would this be even a remote possibility.

Silver Spring International, and Washington International are both schools that have both French and Spanish immersions options at the middle school level, and are in this metro area. I'm sure there are many such schools around the country.

I think DCI is a great thing, and I hope it succeeds but it's not that rare of a model.

I didn't realize they combined five other charter schools.

NP, I also didn't realize those other 2 schools expect every student who goes K-12 to graduate fluent in 2 languages (English and first immersion language) PLUS proficient in a 3rd language.

It's true, there is a lot of hype around DCI that may be a bit over-excited, but PP saying "it's not that rare a model", please enlighten us where 5 bilingual charters representing 3 immersion languages collaborated to form an IB, language and "world citizen"-focused middle and high school where K-12 kids are expected to learn 3 languages? If it's not rare, name even 2 (even 1!) other similar models in the US.

Students are not expected to learn a third language at DCI. The third language is an elective.

For students feeding from an immersion school, I went to two DCI info sessions where they said they "expect" students to take on a 3rd language and graduate proficient. What's your source for it only bring an option and not an expectation?

A kid already enrolled.

[Anonymous]

For the DCI parents out there: Would DCI include Hebrew at one point? I am hoping that they "invite" Sela to join.
Any hint that this might /might not happened?

Thanks

[Anonymous]

^^ Please no! Not the Sela nonsense again. Why do you infect every thread about DCI? Start naming the demand for Hebrew and I'll change my tube. Until then, please go away!

[Anonymous]

Sela should focus on fillings its current available seats. It's not even clear how long the school can survive.