DCI's first graduating class

[Anonymous]

You sound like somebody with little kids. Just wait

[Anonymous]

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

+1 million. DCUM has not changed one bit. How long did it take before there was buy in at Latin for high school? Past few years or so. It’s going to be a lot sooner at DCI.

[Anonymous]

Maybe, but why should we believe that it will? It took Latin over a decade before most of the middle school families began to stay through high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe, but why should we believe that it will? It took Latin over a decade before most of the middle school families began to stay through high school.

Because the city has changed significantly compared to back then. It has gentrified very, very much. Much, much more competition from UMC families now for middle and high schools EOTP.

You can’t get anything renovated for less than 700-800k except for EOTR and few outlier areas close to the border.

Without a doubt, DCI is going to have a lot of UMC families who will go there.

I’m laughing at all the people who post that it’s not rigorous enough. Guess they have not figured out that no DCPS or charter school is rigorous enough to track the highest performing kids. Maybe Basis, but that school only works for a certain subset of high performing kids, not all. It’s all about peer groups people.

[Anonymous]

Basis is all about peer group also. They just didn’t give in to the equity BS pressure from DC and lowered their standards so weeded out the ones who could not perform.

[Anonymous]

For the DCI graduates reading this post...bravo! Congratulations! Your community is proud of you. Keep striving.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For the DCI graduates reading this post...bravo! Congratulations! Your community is proud of you. Keep striving.

Exactly. DCI’s first graduating class is a group of pioneers, and Washington DC is proud of all that you have achieved so far. Best of luck in college and beyond!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe, but why should we believe that it will? It took Latin over a decade before most of the middle school families began to stay through high school.

Because the city has changed significantly compared to back then. It has gentrified very, very much. Much, much more competition from UMC families now for middle and high schools EOTP.

You can’t get anything renovated for less than 700-800k except for EOTR and few outlier areas close to the border.

Without a doubt, DCI is going to have a lot of UMC families who will go there.

I’m laughing at all the people who post that it’s not rigorous enough. Guess they have not figured out that no DCPS or charter school is rigorous enough to track the highest performing kids. Maybe Basis, but that school only works for a certain subset of high performing kids, not all. It’s all about peer groups people.

A good many families in the upper grades at our children's public ES (one of the several highest-performing EotP) still leave DC. Parents search for greener pastures for MS & HS. These are mostly couples and single parents who've lived in our gentrifying neighborhood for many years. Those who stay, at least the people we know, tend to supplement quite a bit without advertising this. Some of these parents essentially quietly half homeschool, which gets expensive, and exhausting. Mayor Bowser doesn't seem give a hoot if UMC families stay in our public schools and she's in charge, in a jurisdiction with mayoral control of schools.

[Anonymous]

I roll my eyes when parents come to DCUM to post about how quickly any particular public school will go from primarily serving low SES students to high SES.

The reality is that most parents will vote with their feet for many years before this happens, if it ever happens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I roll my eyes when parents come to DCUM to post about how quickly any particular public school will go from primarily serving low SES students to high SES.

The reality is that most parents will vote with their feet for many years before this happens, if it ever happens.

DCI at risk is only 19% and last year they only moved 18 spots out of 340 on their Spanish waitlist (similar to Latin) so both of your points of low SES and families leaving are wrong by DC standards.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I roll my eyes when parents come to DCUM to post about how quickly any particular public school will go from primarily serving low SES students to high SES.

The reality is that most parents will vote with their feet for many years before this happens, if it ever happens.

DCI at risk is only 19% and last year they only moved 18 spots out of 340 on their Spanish waitlist (similar to Latin) so both of your points of low SES and families leaving are wrong by DC standards.

They had 0 openings 7-9th last year and only moved 1 spot in 7th and 2 in 9th on the waitlist so yea lots of families leaving there. LOL!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I roll my eyes when parents come to DCUM to post about how quickly any particular public school will go from primarily serving low SES students to high SES.

The reality is that most parents will vote with their feet for many years before this happens, if it ever happens.

DCI at risk is only 19% and last year they only moved 18 spots out of 340 on their Spanish waitlist (similar to Latin) so both of your points of low SES and families leaving are wrong by DC standards.

19% at risk. Also Title 1.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I roll my eyes when parents come to DCUM to post about how quickly any particular public school will go from primarily serving low SES students to high SES.

The reality is that most parents will vote with their feet for many years before this happens, if it ever happens.

DCI at risk is only 19% and last year they only moved 18 spots out of 340 on their Spanish waitlist (similar to Latin) so both of your points of low SES and families leaving are wrong by DC standards.

It was so much easier to understand school demographics when FARMs was the operative term for low SES kids. It's true that DCI doesn't have many homeless kids and very poor families. But it's attracts plenty of lower middle-class minority kids who just aren't equipped to keep up with the mostly white and Asian children of uber-educated UMC parents. That's the elephant in the room.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I roll my eyes when parents come to DCUM to post about how quickly any particular public school will go from primarily serving low SES students to high SES.

The reality is that most parents will vote with their feet for many years before this happens, if it ever happens.

DCI at risk is only 19% and last year they only moved 18 spots out of 340 on their Spanish waitlist (similar to Latin) so both of your points of low SES and families leaving are wrong by DC standards.

It was so much easier to understand school demographics when FARMs was the operative term for low SES kids. It's true that DCI doesn't have many homeless kids and very poor families. But it's attracts plenty of lower middle-class minority kids who just aren't equipped to keep up with the mostly white and Asian children of uber-educated UMC parents. That's the elephant in the room.

And? Does that mean these black/brown working class families should not be allowed access to the school? If you think this, you're fundamentally misunderstanding public education priorities in DC.

[Anonymous]

Fundamentally misunderstanding education priorities in DC, my foot.

DC voters decide on education priorities, and vote accordingly.

The best prepared students at DCI deserve rigor, good discipline, and authentic cultural experiences as much as the least prepared, all the way from 6th to 12th grades. City council members and the Mayor can only ignore rising and well-resourced voting blocks for so long without taking big political risks. Parents of middle and high school students in gentrifying and gentrified swathes of the District are such a block.