Thoughts on DCI, Latin or BASIS

[Anonymous]

What do people think of DCI? I notice that for the younger classes people really prize immersion schools. Why aren't people clamouring for DCI if they missed the immersion boat when they were younger?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What do people think of DCI? I notice that for the younger classes people really prize immersion schools. Why aren't people clamouring for DCI if they missed the immersion boat when they were younger?

DCI isn't immersion. Students can continue advanced foreign language studies and take one other class in their feeder school language. You can also start there at 6th without a foreign language background.

I think many people ARE enthusiastic about DCI - but there have not been not very many slots available for non-feeder school students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What do people think of DCI? I notice that for the younger classes people really prize immersion schools. Why aren't people clamouring for DCI if they missed the immersion boat when they were younger?

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Next year DCI likely won't have space for people from non-feeder schools because it will be bursting at that seems with kids from the feeders it should have a little more space, but still chances won't be great. It's more of a continuation and it wouldn't be immersion anyway. It's typically your language plus one other subject in that language. But I think for kids new to the language it would just be one class. I'm at a feeder, most people seem to be looking forward to sending their kids there.

[Anonymous]

^^seems my phone deleted "when it's at Walter Reed" it should have a little more space.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What do people think of DCI? I notice that for the younger classes people really prize immersion schools. Why aren't people clamouring for DCI if they missed the immersion boat when they were younger?

DCI isn't immersion. Students can continue advanced foreign language studies and take one other class in their feeder school language. You can also start there at 6th without a foreign language background.

I think many people ARE enthusiastic about DCI - but there have not been not very many slots available for non-feeder school students.

I know that it is not immersion (sorry if I wasn't clear), but the IB curriculum is very strong on languages and I definitely learned another language by the time I graduated. I am just surprised that people on here don't regard it as high as Latin which doesn't impress me in the slightest.

[Anonymous]

How many slots are there for non-feeder kids? Is it zero? Or a handful?

[Anonymous]

As above next year I think zero is expected. So it doesn't make sense to waste your lottery time on it. So no reason to worry about it on DCUM...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many slots are there for non-feeder kids? Is it zero? Or a handful?

For middle schools they plan on a slot for every feeder student. Any extra slots are created by kids who don't accept their feeder slot.

While there will be some additional room at Walter Reed, that will be about when the first MV kids are old enough to attend. So that may not change much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What do people think of DCI? I notice that for the younger classes people really prize immersion schools. Why aren't people clamouring for DCI if they missed the immersion boat when they were younger?

I know that it is not immersion (sorry if I wasn't clear), but the IB curriculum is very strong on languages and I definitely learned another language by the time I graduated. I am just surprised that people on here don't regard it as high as Latin which doesn't impress me in the slightest.

Latin is in its 10th year. DCI is in its 2nd. The first year PARCC scores were not great and they are in temporary space but moving into what will be great space by fall 2017.

Basically low chances of getting in + the jury is still out.

[Anonymous]

As an upper middle class parent who knows a lot of very upper middle class people who went to a variety of different schools, I do not clutch my pearls at latin's college acceptance list and sneer, because I am not an insecure snob--and I have seen people become quite successful from a variety of backgrounds.

Were my children constrained to the stifling controlled environments that the pp would find acceptable, I would find them to be tiresome little snots, who had probably been taught by adjuncts and ta's for most of their undergraduate career.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As an upper middle class parent who knows a lot of very upper middle class people who went to a variety of different schools, I do not clutch my pearls at latin's college acceptance list and sneer, because I am not an insecure snob--and I have seen people become quite successful from a variety of backgrounds.

Were my children constrained to the stifling controlled environments that the pp would find acceptable, I would find them to be tiresome little snots, who had probably been taught by adjuncts and ta's for most of their undergraduate career.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As an upper middle class parent who knows a lot of very upper middle class people who went to a variety of different schools, I do not clutch my pearls at latin's college acceptance list and sneer, because I am not an insecure snob--and I have seen people become quite successful from a variety of backgrounds.

Were my children constrained to the stifling controlled environments that the pp would find acceptable, I would find them to be tiresome little snots, who had probably been taught by adjuncts and ta's for most of their undergraduate career.

Preach. People's addiction to status symbols ( get it...symbols ) astounds me.

[Anonymous]

Listen- I think Latin is a great school for average kids. Calm down. It's the parents that are jerks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As an upper middle class parent who knows a lot of very upper middle class people who went to a variety of different schools, I do not clutch my pearls at latin's college acceptance list and sneer, because I am not an insecure snob--and I have seen people become quite successful from a variety of backgrounds.

Were my children constrained to the stifling controlled environments that the pp would find acceptable, I would find them to be tiresome little snots, who had probably been taught by adjuncts and ta's for most of their undergraduate career.

Whatever makes you feel better about that unimpressive list of colleges. I prefer a more "stifling controlled environment" if it helps my children avoid the vast majority of those schools. However, you are free to send your children to any college you wish.

[Anonymous]

Agree that list isn't going to impress anyone. This is college acceptance season and my niece who goes to a very large public high school, 3000+, outside San Diego got into UC Berkeley and Davis. She has a 3.96 out of a 5 point scale (APs) in the top 1/5 of her class. A friend of hers who maybe #1 got into Harvard, Yale and Stanford.

While Latin is a much smaller school, it Is disappointing to see this list of acceptances for a high school that some consider one of the public best in DC. So where does the #1 or a top 20% student from Latin go to college?