the DC International Public Charter School (DCI)

[Anonymous]

Please do not hijack the thread with BS about Yu Ying. Parents that want to push for GT programs need to unleash their desires upon the schools in the proper venue. DCUM and charter bashing doesn't do it.

[Anonymous]

Here's the deal. You complain about what you don't like in DC public, and celebrate what you do, and the rest of us will do the same. Not having bona fide GT options in either DCPS or DCPC is an issue for some. Most of those who claim otherwise don't have gifted kids in 4th grade+. They say no problem because their kids are little.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's the deal. You complain about what you don't like in DC public, and celebrate what you do, and the rest of us will do the same. Not having bona fide GT options in either DCPS or DCPC is an issue for some. Most of those who claim otherwise don't have gifted kids in 4th grade+. They say no problem because their kids are little.

Here's a better deal: Why don't you start another thread about GT options or lack thereof instead of complaining about it on this thread which is about DCI.

[Anonymous]

Interesting article about how the Chinese worry about high school:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/27/world/asia/In-China-Losing-Sleep-Over-Choice-of-Schools.html?src=recg

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^Your naive optimism is almost endearing. But it's still naive optimism. We never even made it to 2nd grade at Two Rivers, expecting to bet there to 5th if not 8th. Our bright kid was bored out of his skull in both 1st and 2nd grades.

Where did your child go to for 2nd grade where he was also bored? Did you ever find a good place? If so, where?

We gave up on DCPC and DCPS and went to Capitol Hill Day, where he has been a little bored but not nearly as much as at Two Rivers. We're moving to Fairfax over the summer to start a gifted 3rd grade GT program. Our kid has an IQ of at least 145, working more than two years above grade level. We're not looking forward to living in VA particularly but don't feel that we have much choice in order to keep our federal jobs. We can't afford privates for two kids for many years (younger sibling starting K in the fall).

Since your post is essentially irrelevant to the conversation, one must assume you are really here merely to brag, which assumes we care.

Personally, I don't, nor could I care less. Your 145 IQ freak isn't going to cure cancer, but he could make an unfortunate target.

Have fun in middle school and don't forget that anti-depressants are an optional for the suicidal.

[Anonymous]

Because there are so many Spanish immersion charters that will be a part of the DCI what would parents think about efforts to encourage some of this children to learn a third language (French or Mandarin), so more of those children can take the French or Mandarin content at the DCI? If started now (before age 6), it would be effortless for a lot of the kids to pick up a third language.

[Anonymous]

^^ and it would balance things out. How are they otherwise going to keep the French and mandarin as viable?

[Anonymous]

The younger grades at YY are fairly big...so that issue may go away after a few years, but I wonder about French in particular. Remember that it is not all Spanish immersion schools that feed to DCI but rather 3.5...still a lot admittedly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because there are so many Spanish immersion charters that will be a part of the DCI what would parents think about efforts to encourage some of this children to learn a third language (French or Mandarin), so more of those children can take the French or Mandarin content at the DCI? If started now (before age 6), it would be effortless for a lot of the kids to pick up a third language.

Isn't one of the goals of DCI that all children will graduate fluent in 2 languages (English and their bilingual target language) as well as at least conversational (spoken, written and reading) in a 3rd? I get your point about the large Spanish-studying %, but wanted to point out that all kids will have option of learning a 3rd language.

[Anonymous]

But if the third language is not started before that key period (before adolescence) it will not be easily learned by the kids and they won't achieve native fluency.

[Anonymous]

The earlier a kid begins, the more easy it is for them to master a new language. Waiting til the later grades is nowhere near as effective.

[Anonymous]

So, the schools in the DCI need to consider at least starting a language lesson in the third language now.

[Anonymous]

How feasible would that be? Would it likely be too much for kids already learning a second language from scratch to add on a third?

[Anonymous]

Wait, so you want Mundo Verde and DC Bilingual, etc, to add French and Mandarin at the elementary levels? That is NOT going to happen any time soon.

[Anonymous]

What would be the barriers to this?