CHARTERS MAY MERGE AT WALTER REED (The DC International School, IB Diploma Programme)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:there is a meeting at YY next week for parents in the top 3 grades about the DCI. oh it's on!!

Can someone from YY report on what was discussed at this meeting a few weeks ago?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:there is a meeting at YY next week for parents in the top 3 grades about the DCI. oh it's on!!

Can someone from YY report on what was discussed at this meeting a few weeks ago?

YY has already submitted an application for amendment to the board. Stokes, Lamb, and MV submits theirs in January. The building is Delano Hall on WR's campus. It is a beautiful building. The school will most likely be in an incubator space 2014-2015, and WR not open until 2015-2016. DCI is from 6-12 grade. I believe there are two available tracks for the students. One track allows the student to obtain and graduate with 30 credit hours transferable to freshman college credits. They will graduate with IB degree. For those parents interested in your kid studying algebra in grade five, it is not available.

I am sure others can post different things they heard. Oh, and there was no mention of Sela, but DC Bilingual has expressed an interest in joining DCI.

[Anonymous]

Did they mention when YY will officially be an IB school?

[Anonymous]

That was announced at the PA meeting in September or October. The application is in and the review process takes place throughout this school year. I believe it involves numerous or extended site visits from IB.

[Anonymous]

Any info in the recent meeting on this. . . .

How large will the DCI school be? At first and eventually? For example, each grade level will have 100 / 200 / 300 students, for an eventual school of 100 x 7 grade levels = 700, or 200 x 7 = 1400, or. . .

For the first year in 2014-15, will the grade levels be 6th, 7th, 8th? Will the goal be 100 students x 3 levels = 300, or . . . .

What will the entrance years be for students who lottery in as new students, those who do not come from a charter feeder school? After a certain grade, will there be no more new students admitted? For example, the last year to start at Latin is 9th grade. The last year to start at YY elementary is 2nd grade. The last year to start at LAMB elementary is PreK 4.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any info in the recent meeting on this. . . .

How large will the DCI school be? At first and eventually? For example, each grade level will have 100 / 200 / 300 students, for an eventual school of 100 x 7 grade levels = 700, or 200 x 7 = 1400, or. . .

For the first year in 2014-15, will the grade levels be 6th, 7th, 8th? Will the goal be 100 students x 3 levels = 300, or . . . .

What will the entrance years be for students who lottery in as new students, those who do not come from a charter feeder school? After a certain grade, will there be no more new students admitted? For example, the last year to start at Latin is 9th grade. The last year to start at YY elementary is 2nd grade. The last year to start at LAMB elementary is PreK 4.

I believe the first year the schools anticipate that with 6th and 7th grade only, there will be a student population of 85. Every year thereafter they will add a grade. Once they reach the 12th grade level, the schools anticipate a population of 800 students. In the early years, Stokes and YY will provide the vast majority of students. Eventually MV will catch up and produce the same number of students. LAMB appears to have a smaller population overall. Entry years are for every grade where there is an opening, as DCI is not immersion. The children are required to take a language class every day. It is a given that Mandarin, Spanish, and French are offered, but don't know if the schools will also include additional languages.

[Anonymous]

People: the last posting is full of errors. Please get info. directly from the feeder schools only. There will only be about 20 lottery slots each year, as the feeder schools will be providing the vast majority of the students. Immersion education is still a focus, so students will take courses in another language for at least 25% of the time. If DC Bilingual is included at a later date, then those students would fill what would have been available lottery slots, meaning no lottery students at all, only feeder school students. no new students will be allowed after 9th grade. There is a lot more detail that was provided at the YY parent meeting, but right now that info. is for those parents in the 3 highest grades at YY. You'll have to ask EWS, LAMB, and MV leadership for details if you attend those schools.

[Anonymous]

I am at YY and haven't received any info so I appreciate therapeutic posts. The YY meeting was only for the upper grades.

[Anonymous]

Full immersion, or 90/10, programs teach in the partner language 90% of the time in

Partial immersion, or 50/50, programs teach 50% of the day in English and 50% of the day in the partner language at all grade levels.

SO ...what is 25% of the time considered?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People: the last posting is full of errors. Please get info. directly from the feeder schools only. There will only be about 20 lottery slots each year, as the feeder schools will be providing the vast majority of the students. Immersion education is still a focus, so students will take courses in another language for at least 25% of the time. If DC Bilingual is included at a later date, then those students would fill what would have been available lottery slots, meaning no lottery students at all, only feeder school students. no new students will be allowed after 9th grade. There is a lot more detail that was provided at the YY parent meeting, but right now that info. is for those parents in the 3 highest grades at YY. You'll have to ask EWS, LAMB, and MV leadership for details if you attend those schools.

Dont know how it is full of errors since it directly from the portal butthole. From the YY Portal
SY2015-15 New Students not matriculating from YY, EWS, Lamb, or MV

6th grade new students 18
7th grade 16

SY2015-16
6th grade 20 new students, 7th-22, 8th=20

SY2016-17
6th =10, 7th=21, 8th=22, 9th=23

SY2017-18
6th=0, 7th=19, 8th=27, 9th=26, 10=21

SY2018-19
6th=0, 7th=13, 8th=27, 9th=32, 10th=24, 11th=19

SY20-21 (SY 19-20 was skipped, so this could be a typo on the web)
6th=0, 7th=13, 8th=25, 9th=34, 10=29, 11th=22, 12th=18

It appears that the school will accept new students all the way into the 12th grade according to the information provided by the school. Of course these numbers are all speculative as everything will be determined on how many students actually choose to stay all the way through graduation.

Butthole was correct in one regard, the first class is a total of 145 students and the 85 student count is the total for sixth graders.

And I poo-poo on your suggestion that the school is immersion. Which of the three languages will the teachers instruct the algebra, geometry, civics, etc class. For the other posters, there appears to be two time slots for language acquisition. The student can take classes in their elementary school language and an additional language course. Of course, butthole is correct, for non-anonymous information you should consult with the respective schools. Of course, I don't know how this helps those who do not currently have children in any of the respective schools.

FWIW, I am simply trying to provide information. Afterall, it is from this board that I learned about YY and Stokes when making choices for my child. I am glad for those who were willing to share.

[Anonymous]

Can I piggy-back on the previous question and ask what exactly the purpose of "immersion" is in high-school? I'm not trying to be difficult, just not seeing it. I mean, I can totally see the purpose of immersion in elementary grades, when immersion serves to acquire more than one language in a quasi-maternal way. But come middle and high school, what sense does it make to teach only 10% in English while living in a country that, after all, whose primary language is English? MS and HS is really not the same thing as ES, when one can in all good conscience rely on other social interactions and playground chatter to let children acquire English. But they won't acquire scientific and statistical concepts in English there, nor will they discuss classics in literature while playing soccer with friends, nor will they read about history at birthday parties. So would immersion in highschool mean that students would discuss American literature in Chinese or Spanish? Should American history be taught in French to high school students? Or maybe it would mean that only 10% of the curriculum would be devoted to anything particularly American?
I am honestly asking myself (an others) these questions. For foreigners scheduled to return to or spend significant time in their lives in their home countries at some point, this would make a lot of sense and they often set up private schools to handle that particular demand (French, German etc.).

[Anonymous]

This question was in relation to 14:51's post about what breakdown is "true immersion":

Anonymous wrote:Can I piggy-back on the previous question and ask what exactly the purpose of "immersion" is in high-school? I'm not trying to be difficult, just not seeing it. I mean, I can totally see the purpose of immersion in elementary grades, when immersion serves to acquire more than one language in a quasi-maternal way. But come middle and high school, what sense does it make to teach only 10% in English while living in a country that, after all, whose primary language is English? MS and HS is really not the same thing as ES, when one can in all good conscience rely on other social interactions and playground chatter to let children acquire English. But they won't acquire scientific and statistical concepts in English there, nor will they discuss classics in literature while playing soccer with friends, nor will they read about history at birthday parties. So would immersion in highschool mean that students would discuss American literature in Chinese or Spanish? Should American history be taught in French to high school students? Or maybe it would mean that only 10% of the curriculum would be devoted to anything particularly American?
I am honestly asking myself (an others) these questions. For foreigners scheduled to return to or spend significant time in their lives in their home countries at some point, this would make a lot of sense and they often set up private schools to handle that particular demand (French, German etc.).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People: the last posting is full of errors. Please get info. directly from the feeder schools only. There will only be about 20 lottery slots each year, as the feeder schools will be providing the vast majority of the students. Immersion education is still a focus, so students will take courses in another language for at least 25% of the time. If DC Bilingual is included at a later date, then those students would fill what would have been available lottery slots, meaning no lottery students at all, only feeder school students. no new students will be allowed after 9th grade. There is a lot more detail that was provided at the YY parent meeting, but right now that info. is for those parents in the 3 highest grades at YY. You'll have to ask EWS, LAMB, and MV leadership for details if you attend those schools.

Dont know how it is full of errors since it directly from the portal butthole. From the YY Portal
SY2015-15 New Students not matriculating from YY, EWS, Lamb, or MV

6th grade new students 18
7th grade 16

SY2015-16
6th grade 20 new students, 7th-22, 8th=20

SY2016-17
6th =10, 7th=21, 8th=22, 9th=23

SY2017-18
6th=0, 7th=19, 8th=27, 9th=26, 10=21

SY2018-19
6th=0, 7th=13, 8th=27, 9th=32, 10th=24, 11th=19

SY20-21 (SY 19-20 was skipped, so this could be a typo on the web)
6th=0, 7th=13, 8th=25, 9th=34, 10=29, 11th=22, 12th=18

It appears that the school will accept new students all the way into the 12th grade according to the information provided by the school. Of course these numbers are all speculative as everything will be determined on how many students actually choose to stay all the way through graduation.

Butthole was correct in one regard, the first class is a total of 145 students and the 85 student count is the total for sixth graders.

And I poo-poo on your suggestion that the school is immersion. Which of the three languages will the teachers instruct the algebra, geometry, civics, etc class. For the other posters, there appears to be two time slots for language acquisition. The student can take classes in their elementary school language and an additional language course. Of course, butthole is correct, for non-anonymous information you should consult with the respective schools. Of course, I don't know how this helps those who do not currently have children in any of the respective schools.

FWIW, I am simply trying to provide information. Afterall, it is from this board that I learned about YY and Stokes when making choices for my child. I am glad for those who were willing to share.

Butthole? Poo-poo?

[Anonymous]

It appears the poster's vocabulary is commensurate with his/her intelligence and understanding of the DCI.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People: the last posting is full of errors. Please get info. directly from the feeder schools only. There will only be about 20 lottery slots each year, as the feeder schools will be providing the vast majority of the students. Immersion education is still a focus, so students will take courses in another language for at least 25% of the time. If DC Bilingual is included at a later date, then those students would fill what would have been available lottery slots, meaning no lottery students at all, only feeder school students. no new students will be allowed after 9th grade. There is a lot more detail that was provided at the YY parent meeting, but right now that info. is for those parents in the 3 highest grades at YY. You'll have to ask EWS, LAMB, and MV leadership for details if you attend those schools.

Dont know how it is full of errors since it directly from the portal butthole. From the YY Portal
SY2015-15 New Students not matriculating from YY, EWS, Lamb, or MV

6th grade new students 18
7th grade 16

SY2015-16
6th grade 20 new students, 7th-22, 8th=20

SY2016-17
6th =10, 7th=21, 8th=22, 9th=23

SY2017-18
6th=0, 7th=19, 8th=27, 9th=26, 10=21

SY2018-19
6th=0, 7th=13, 8th=27, 9th=32, 10th=24, 11th=19

SY20-21 (SY 19-20 was skipped, so this could be a typo on the web)
6th=0, 7th=13, 8th=25, 9th=34, 10=29, 11th=22, 12th=18

It appears that the school will accept new students all the way into the 12th grade according to the information provided by the school. Of course these numbers are all speculative as everything will be determined on how many students actually choose to stay all the way through graduation.

Butthole was correct in one regard, the first class is a total of 145 students and the 85 student count is the total for sixth graders.

And I poo-poo on your suggestion that the school is immersion. Which of the three languages will the teachers instruct the algebra, geometry, civics, etc class. For the other posters, there appears to be two time slots for language acquisition. The student can take classes in their elementary school language and an additional language course. Of course, butthole is correct, for non-anonymous information you should consult with the respective schools. Of course, I don't know how this helps those who do not currently have children in any of the respective schools.

FWIW, I am simply trying to provide information. Afterall, it is from this board that I learned about YY and Stokes when making choices for my child. I am glad for those who were willing to share.

Butthole? Poo-poo?

It is better than what I really wanted to say. So, I dumbed it down for you, since you obviously could not bother to read or comprehend before chiming in with your snarky misinformed retort.