DCI Parent Petition

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Anonymous wrote:School newspaper just dropped a special edition expose. Amazing.

Is that online? Link?

https://www.instagram.com/dci_newspaper/

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tFezsBJ2KJM2uDW37Gq0kZQyf7Fcqi5fVEjUbl5m_jU/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.4z2kyyema2et

Holy sh*t! This is bad.

DCI is really sinking.

I don’t agree. Seems like a small group is complaining about ensuring teachers are on time. A few people were let go for reasons we can’t legally know. I don’t know why you think a school is “sinking”. By that measure dcps as a whole is fully sunk (wait that might be accurate).

What do these protestors mean by “loss of IB for all”? It makes little sense to me but I’m an outsider.

I am once again asking in what world is 94% of staff, thousands of petition signers, and hundreds of students walking out a "small group"? Stop trying to make small group happen.

I think there were like 12 kids in the walkout, most of the kids didn’t even know it was happening. The staff number is unsurprising, given how teachers rebel against any and all accountability at every school.

Your continued "teachers hate accountability" argument doesn't really explain why students walked out, alumni spoke out, parents organized, and community members testified publicly. At some point, it becomes statistically improbable that every group raising concerns is the problem.

When your explanation for every criticism is that the critic is lazy, uninformed, manipulated, or disgruntled, you're no longer evaluating evidence. You're protecting your (wrong) conclusion.

The evidence we have is weak and all you’re doing is appealing to essentially unfalsifiable claims.

I dispute that the walkout was that big (and students claim it was the usual suspects, backing me up there). I dispute that the parental organization was any great number outside of dramatic LAMB parents who have caused trouble their entire time in the Charter system (and the behavior of other parents and the board backs me up here).

I don’t dispute the petition, but it appears in response to a truly necessary call for staff accountability.

I have no kids at DCI and no horse in this race. The video posted flies in the face of bolded. So either the video is AI or you are just making things up and sticking with your story. If an outsider is trying to figure out who is credible, it isn't you.

I don’t have a kid at DCI either but it looked pretty small for a student population with 1600 kids. It’s not like the whole school or even 10% walked out.

You seem very confident for someone who wasn’t there.

The middle school was in testing, so the walkout was limited to the high school. Anyone who was actually present knows almost all students walked out and there was representation from across grades, programs, backgrounds, and friend groups… not just “the usual suspects.”

More importantly, you’re missing the point. Whether it was 300 students or 500 students, that’s an extraordinary event in the life of a school. Students generally don’t leave class, risk disciplinary consequences, organize petitions, testify publicly, and spend months advocating because they’re upset about employee badge swipes.

And since we’re talking about leadership, it’s worth noting that while students were outside making their concerns known, Rosskamm exited through the back of the building rather than facing the students directly. Many people viewed that as emblematic of the broader concern: when confronted with difficult feedback, the response has too often been avoidance rather than engagement.

How many students are not returning next year? That is more of a metric for there displeasure than a silly walkout.

Not really. Most of the kids at DcI have no better option.

NP. Sorry but you are wrong. We turned down private and Latin. Know families who turn down Basis and Walls. Know families who chose DCI over their IB Deal.

Based on this, you’d think DCI is the top middle and high school in DC, but the reality is quite different.

Nope, I never said that. You are making incorrect assumptions typical of DCUM.

70k private wasn’t worth it. We might have considered if we had gotten FA.

Latin weak in math, STEM, sports and extracurriculars. Subpar facilities.

DCI was good enough, strong in STEM and languages, lots of tracking, and kid is having a good experience not only academically but loving his friend group and the sports and clubs.

Why do DCI boosters always have to try to put down another school to justify their choices?

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Anonymous wrote:School newspaper just dropped a special edition expose. Amazing.

Is that online? Link?

https://www.instagram.com/dci_newspaper/

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tFezsBJ2KJM2uDW37Gq0kZQyf7Fcqi5fVEjUbl5m_jU/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.4z2kyyema2et

Holy sh*t! This is bad.

DCI is really sinking.

I don’t agree. Seems like a small group is complaining about ensuring teachers are on time. A few people were let go for reasons we can’t legally know. I don’t know why you think a school is “sinking”. By that measure dcps as a whole is fully sunk (wait that might be accurate).

What do these protestors mean by “loss of IB for all”? It makes little sense to me but I’m an outsider.

I am once again asking in what world is 94% of staff, thousands of petition signers, and hundreds of students walking out a "small group"? Stop trying to make small group happen.

I think there were like 12 kids in the walkout, most of the kids didn’t even know it was happening. The staff number is unsurprising, given how teachers rebel against any and all accountability at every school.

Your continued "teachers hate accountability" argument doesn't really explain why students walked out, alumni spoke out, parents organized, and community members testified publicly. At some point, it becomes statistically improbable that every group raising concerns is the problem.

When your explanation for every criticism is that the critic is lazy, uninformed, manipulated, or disgruntled, you're no longer evaluating evidence. You're protecting your (wrong) conclusion.

The evidence we have is weak and all you’re doing is appealing to essentially unfalsifiable claims.

I dispute that the walkout was that big (and students claim it was the usual suspects, backing me up there). I dispute that the parental organization was any great number outside of dramatic LAMB parents who have caused trouble their entire time in the Charter system (and the behavior of other parents and the board backs me up here).

I don’t dispute the petition, but it appears in response to a truly necessary call for staff accountability.

I have no kids at DCI and no horse in this race. The video posted flies in the face of bolded. So either the video is AI or you are just making things up and sticking with your story. If an outsider is trying to figure out who is credible, it isn't you.

I don’t have a kid at DCI either but it looked pretty small for a student population with 1600 kids. It’s not like the whole school or even 10% walked out.

You seem very confident for someone who wasn’t there.

The middle school was in testing, so the walkout was limited to the high school. Anyone who was actually present knows almost all students walked out and there was representation from across grades, programs, backgrounds, and friend groups… not just “the usual suspects.”

More importantly, you’re missing the point. Whether it was 300 students or 500 students, that’s an extraordinary event in the life of a school. Students generally don’t leave class, risk disciplinary consequences, organize petitions, testify publicly, and spend months advocating because they’re upset about employee badge swipes.

And since we’re talking about leadership, it’s worth noting that while students were outside making their concerns known, Rosskamm exited through the back of the building rather than facing the students directly. Many people viewed that as emblematic of the broader concern: when confronted with difficult feedback, the response has too often been avoidance rather than engagement.

How many students are not returning next year? That is more of a metric for there displeasure than a silly walkout.

Not really. Most of the kids at DcI have no better option.

NP. Sorry but you are wrong. We turned down private and Latin. Know families who turn down Basis and Walls. Know families who chose DCI over their IB Deal.

Based on this, you’d think DCI is the top middle and high school in DC, but the reality is quite different.

Nope, I never said that. You are making incorrect assumptions typical of DCUM.

70k private wasn’t worth it. We might have considered if we had gotten FA.

Latin weak in math, STEM, sports and extracurriculars. Subpar facilities.

DCI was good enough, strong in STEM and languages, lots of tracking, and kid is having a good experience not only academically but loving his friend group and the sports and clubs.

Why do DCI boosters always have to try to put down another school to justify their choices?

Because they are constantly justifying it to themselves?

It's funny, they always put down Latin and Walls, which are two schools where every parent I know with a kid there is really happy. By contrast the DCI middle school parents I know complain a lot about the screen usage and that it isn't challenging enough. (We are not at any of these schools but live in a EOTP neighborhood where we have neighbors at all of them).

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Anonymous wrote:School newspaper just dropped a special edition expose. Amazing.

Is that online? Link?

https://www.instagram.com/dci_newspaper/

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tFezsBJ2KJM2uDW37Gq0kZQyf7Fcqi5fVEjUbl5m_jU/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.4z2kyyema2et

Holy sh*t! This is bad.

DCI is really sinking.

I don’t agree. Seems like a small group is complaining about ensuring teachers are on time. A few people were let go for reasons we can’t legally know. I don’t know why you think a school is “sinking”. By that measure dcps as a whole is fully sunk (wait that might be accurate).

What do these protestors mean by “loss of IB for all”? It makes little sense to me but I’m an outsider.

I am once again asking in what world is 94% of staff, thousands of petition signers, and hundreds of students walking out a "small group"? Stop trying to make small group happen.

I think there were like 12 kids in the walkout, most of the kids didn’t even know it was happening. The staff number is unsurprising, given how teachers rebel against any and all accountability at every school.

Your continued "teachers hate accountability" argument doesn't really explain why students walked out, alumni spoke out, parents organized, and community members testified publicly. At some point, it becomes statistically improbable that every group raising concerns is the problem.

When your explanation for every criticism is that the critic is lazy, uninformed, manipulated, or disgruntled, you're no longer evaluating evidence. You're protecting your (wrong) conclusion.

The evidence we have is weak and all you’re doing is appealing to essentially unfalsifiable claims.

I dispute that the walkout was that big (and students claim it was the usual suspects, backing me up there). I dispute that the parental organization was any great number outside of dramatic LAMB parents who have caused trouble their entire time in the Charter system (and the behavior of other parents and the board backs me up here).

I don’t dispute the petition, but it appears in response to a truly necessary call for staff accountability.

I have no kids at DCI and no horse in this race. The video posted flies in the face of bolded. So either the video is AI or you are just making things up and sticking with your story. If an outsider is trying to figure out who is credible, it isn't you.

I don’t have a kid at DCI either but it looked pretty small for a student population with 1600 kids. It’s not like the whole school or even 10% walked out.

You seem very confident for someone who wasn’t there.

The middle school was in testing, so the walkout was limited to the high school. Anyone who was actually present knows almost all students walked out and there was representation from across grades, programs, backgrounds, and friend groups… not just “the usual suspects.”

More importantly, you’re missing the point. Whether it was 300 students or 500 students, that’s an extraordinary event in the life of a school. Students generally don’t leave class, risk disciplinary consequences, organize petitions, testify publicly, and spend months advocating because they’re upset about employee badge swipes.

And since we’re talking about leadership, it’s worth noting that while students were outside making their concerns known, Rosskamm exited through the back of the building rather than facing the students directly. Many people viewed that as emblematic of the broader concern: when confronted with difficult feedback, the response has too often been avoidance rather than engagement.

How many students are not returning next year? That is more of a metric for there displeasure than a silly walkout.

Not really. Most of the kids at DcI have no better option.

NP. Sorry but you are wrong. We turned down private and Latin. Know families who turn down Basis and Walls. Know families who chose DCI over their IB Deal.

Based on this, you’d think DCI is the top middle and high school in DC, but the reality is quite different.

Nope, I never said that. You are making incorrect assumptions typical of DCUM.

70k private wasn’t worth it. We might have considered if we had gotten FA.

Latin weak in math, STEM, sports and extracurriculars. Subpar facilities.

DCI was good enough, strong in STEM and languages, lots of tracking, and kid is having a good experience not only academically but loving his friend group and the sports and clubs.

Why do DCI boosters always have to try to put down another school to justify their choices?

Because they are constantly justifying it to themselves?

It's funny, they always put down Latin and Walls, which are two schools where every parent I know with a kid there is really happy. By contrast the DCI middle school parents I know complain a lot about the screen usage and that it isn't challenging enough. (We are not at any of these schools but live in a EOTP neighborhood where we have neighbors at all of them).

PP here. I am not justifying anything. Please re-read upthread about the statement that DCI families don’t have options. I personally know of a number of families who did and corrected this person. Then I answered someone who stated I thought DCI was the top middle and high school which I said no. I answered why we chose DCI over the options we had.

How am I boosting a school when I countered the statement that DCI was the best school in the city and answered the question why we chose the school over the options we had and stated facts. I said it was good enough.

If you want to call out people boostering, I suggest you call out all the non-DCI families here stating how teachers are leaving in droves and the ship is sinking who believe an anonymous posts with absolutely no kids at the school.

BTW my kid and his friends have not experienced any teachers leaving due to ED.

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Yes! Yes! DCI is a sinking ship, going up in flames. Teachers and staff are all leaving.

Please tell all to believe it and so families can take themselves off the waitlist. Please!

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Anonymous wrote:School newspaper just dropped a special edition expose. Amazing.

Is that online? Link?

https://www.instagram.com/dci_newspaper/

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tFezsBJ2KJM2uDW37Gq0kZQyf7Fcqi5fVEjUbl5m_jU/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.4z2kyyema2et

Holy sh*t! This is bad.

DCI is really sinking.

I don’t agree. Seems like a small group is complaining about ensuring teachers are on time. A few people were let go for reasons we can’t legally know. I don’t know why you think a school is “sinking”. By that measure dcps as a whole is fully sunk (wait that might be accurate).

What do these protestors mean by “loss of IB for all”? It makes little sense to me but I’m an outsider.

I am once again asking in what world is 94% of staff, thousands of petition signers, and hundreds of students walking out a "small group"? Stop trying to make small group happen.

I think there were like 12 kids in the walkout, most of the kids didn’t even know it was happening. The staff number is unsurprising, given how teachers rebel against any and all accountability at every school.

Your continued "teachers hate accountability" argument doesn't really explain why students walked out, alumni spoke out, parents organized, and community members testified publicly. At some point, it becomes statistically improbable that every group raising concerns is the problem.

When your explanation for every criticism is that the critic is lazy, uninformed, manipulated, or disgruntled, you're no longer evaluating evidence. You're protecting your (wrong) conclusion.

The evidence we have is weak and all you’re doing is appealing to essentially unfalsifiable claims.

I dispute that the walkout was that big (and students claim it was the usual suspects, backing me up there). I dispute that the parental organization was any great number outside of dramatic LAMB parents who have caused trouble their entire time in the Charter system (and the behavior of other parents and the board backs me up here).

I don’t dispute the petition, but it appears in response to a truly necessary call for staff accountability.

I have no kids at DCI and no horse in this race. The video posted flies in the face of bolded. So either the video is AI or you are just making things up and sticking with your story. If an outsider is trying to figure out who is credible, it isn't you.

I don’t have a kid at DCI either but it looked pretty small for a student population with 1600 kids. It’s not like the whole school or even 10% walked out.

You seem very confident for someone who wasn’t there.

The middle school was in testing, so the walkout was limited to the high school. Anyone who was actually present knows almost all students walked out and there was representation from across grades, programs, backgrounds, and friend groups… not just “the usual suspects.”

More importantly, you’re missing the point. Whether it was 300 students or 500 students, that’s an extraordinary event in the life of a school. Students generally don’t leave class, risk disciplinary consequences, organize petitions, testify publicly, and spend months advocating because they’re upset about employee badge swipes.

And since we’re talking about leadership, it’s worth noting that while students were outside making their concerns known, Rosskamm exited through the back of the building rather than facing the students directly. Many people viewed that as emblematic of the broader concern: when confronted with difficult feedback, the response has too often been avoidance rather than engagement.

How many students are not returning next year? That is more of a metric for there displeasure than a silly walkout.

Not really. Most of the kids at DcI have no better option.

NP. Sorry but you are wrong. We turned down private and Latin. Know families who turn down Basis and Walls. Know families who chose DCI over their IB Deal.

Based on this, you’d think DCI is the top middle and high school in DC, but the reality is quite different.

Nope, I never said that. You are making incorrect assumptions typical of DCUM.

70k private wasn’t worth it. We might have considered if we had gotten FA.

Latin weak in math, STEM, sports and extracurriculars. Subpar facilities.

DCI was good enough, strong in STEM and languages, lots of tracking, and kid is having a good experience not only academically but loving his friend group and the sports and clubs.

Why do DCI boosters always have to try to put down another school to justify their choices?

Because they are constantly justifying it to themselves?

It's funny, they always put down Latin and Walls, which are two schools where every parent I know with a kid there is really happy. By contrast the DCI middle school parents I know complain a lot about the screen usage and that it isn't challenging enough. (We are not at any of these schools but live in a EOTP neighborhood where we have neighbors at all of them).

PP here. I am not justifying anything. Please re-read upthread about the statement that DCI families don’t have options. I personally know of a number of families who did and corrected this person. Then I answered someone who stated I thought DCI was the top middle and high school which I said no. I answered why we chose DCI over the options we had.

How am I boosting a school when I countered the statement that DCI was the best school in the city and answered the question why we chose the school over the options we had and stated facts. I said it was good enough.

If you want to call out people boostering, I suggest you call out all the non-DCI families here stating how teachers are leaving in droves and the ship is sinking who believe an anonymous posts with absolutely no kids at the school.

BTW my kid and his friends have not experienced any teachers leaving due to ED.

If you want to be taken seriously, stop criticizing schools you know nothing about. Constantly putting down other schools doesn’t strengthen your argument—it only damages your credibility.

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Anonymous wrote:School newspaper just dropped a special edition expose. Amazing.

Is that online? Link?

https://www.instagram.com/dci_newspaper/

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tFezsBJ2KJM2uDW37Gq0kZQyf7Fcqi5fVEjUbl5m_jU/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.4z2kyyema2et

Holy sh*t! This is bad.

DCI is really sinking.

I don’t agree. Seems like a small group is complaining about ensuring teachers are on time. A few people were let go for reasons we can’t legally know. I don’t know why you think a school is “sinking”. By that measure dcps as a whole is fully sunk (wait that might be accurate).

What do these protestors mean by “loss of IB for all”? It makes little sense to me but I’m an outsider.

I am once again asking in what world is 94% of staff, thousands of petition signers, and hundreds of students walking out a "small group"? Stop trying to make small group happen.

I think there were like 12 kids in the walkout, most of the kids didn’t even know it was happening. The staff number is unsurprising, given how teachers rebel against any and all accountability at every school.

Your continued "teachers hate accountability" argument doesn't really explain why students walked out, alumni spoke out, parents organized, and community members testified publicly. At some point, it becomes statistically improbable that every group raising concerns is the problem.

When your explanation for every criticism is that the critic is lazy, uninformed, manipulated, or disgruntled, you're no longer evaluating evidence. You're protecting your (wrong) conclusion.

The evidence we have is weak and all you’re doing is appealing to essentially unfalsifiable claims.

I dispute that the walkout was that big (and students claim it was the usual suspects, backing me up there). I dispute that the parental organization was any great number outside of dramatic LAMB parents who have caused trouble their entire time in the Charter system (and the behavior of other parents and the board backs me up here).

I don’t dispute the petition, but it appears in response to a truly necessary call for staff accountability.

I have no kids at DCI and no horse in this race. The video posted flies in the face of bolded. So either the video is AI or you are just making things up and sticking with your story. If an outsider is trying to figure out who is credible, it isn't you.

I don’t have a kid at DCI either but it looked pretty small for a student population with 1600 kids. It’s not like the whole school or even 10% walked out.

You seem very confident for someone who wasn’t there.

The middle school was in testing, so the walkout was limited to the high school. Anyone who was actually present knows almost all students walked out and there was representation from across grades, programs, backgrounds, and friend groups… not just “the usual suspects.”

More importantly, you’re missing the point. Whether it was 300 students or 500 students, that’s an extraordinary event in the life of a school. Students generally don’t leave class, risk disciplinary consequences, organize petitions, testify publicly, and spend months advocating because they’re upset about employee badge swipes.

And since we’re talking about leadership, it’s worth noting that while students were outside making their concerns known, Rosskamm exited through the back of the building rather than facing the students directly. Many people viewed that as emblematic of the broader concern: when confronted with difficult feedback, the response has too often been avoidance rather than engagement.

How many students are not returning next year? That is more of a metric for there displeasure than a silly walkout.

Not really. Most of the kids at DcI have no better option.

NP. Sorry but you are wrong. We turned down private and Latin. Know families who turn down Basis and Walls. Know families who chose DCI over their IB Deal.

Based on this, you’d think DCI is the top middle and high school in DC, but the reality is quite different.

Nope, I never said that. You are making incorrect assumptions typical of DCUM.

70k private wasn’t worth it. We might have considered if we had gotten FA.

Latin weak in math, STEM, sports and extracurriculars. Subpar facilities.

DCI was good enough, strong in STEM and languages, lots of tracking, and kid is having a good experience not only academically but loving his friend group and the sports and clubs.

Why do DCI boosters always have to try to put down another school to justify their choices?

Because they are constantly justifying it to themselves?

It's funny, they always put down Latin and Walls, which are two schools where every parent I know with a kid there is really happy. By contrast the DCI middle school parents I know complain a lot about the screen usage and that it isn't challenging enough. (We are not at any of these schools but live in a EOTP neighborhood where we have neighbors at all of them).

PP here. I am not justifying anything. Please re-read upthread about the statement that DCI families don’t have options. I personally know of a number of families who did and corrected this person. Then I answered someone who stated I thought DCI was the top middle and high school which I said no. I answered why we chose DCI over the options we had.

How am I boosting a school when I countered the statement that DCI was the best school in the city and answered the question why we chose the school over the options we had and stated facts. I said it was good enough.

If you want to call out people boostering, I suggest you call out all the non-DCI families here stating how teachers are leaving in droves and the ship is sinking who believe an anonymous posts with absolutely no kids at the school.

BTW my kid and his friends have not experienced any teachers leaving due to ED.

If you want to be taken seriously, stop criticizing schools you know nothing about. Constantly putting down other schools doesn’t strengthen your argument—it only damages your credibility.

Who is constantly putting down schools? How do you know I know nothing about the school? I answered a question and gave the reasons why we chose DCI based on our research and talking to families. Stating our reasons is actually more credible than not.

So you are saying anytime a family states they are choosing a school over another and gives reasons why with weaknesses and strengths are not credible. Got it.



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Hit quick too soon, Feel free to counter what I said about above comparison if you wish. But string facts is credibility.

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Anonymous wrote:School newspaper just dropped a special edition expose. Amazing.

Is that online? Link?

https://www.instagram.com/dci_newspaper/

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tFezsBJ2KJM2uDW37Gq0kZQyf7Fcqi5fVEjUbl5m_jU/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.4z2kyyema2et

Holy sh*t! This is bad.

DCI is really sinking.

I don’t agree. Seems like a small group is complaining about ensuring teachers are on time. A few people were let go for reasons we can’t legally know. I don’t know why you think a school is “sinking”. By that measure dcps as a whole is fully sunk (wait that might be accurate).

What do these protestors mean by “loss of IB for all”? It makes little sense to me but I’m an outsider.

I am once again asking in what world is 94% of staff, thousands of petition signers, and hundreds of students walking out a "small group"? Stop trying to make small group happen.

I think there were like 12 kids in the walkout, most of the kids didn’t even know it was happening. The staff number is unsurprising, given how teachers rebel against any and all accountability at every school.

Your continued "teachers hate accountability" argument doesn't really explain why students walked out, alumni spoke out, parents organized, and community members testified publicly. At some point, it becomes statistically improbable that every group raising concerns is the problem.

When your explanation for every criticism is that the critic is lazy, uninformed, manipulated, or disgruntled, you're no longer evaluating evidence. You're protecting your (wrong) conclusion.

The evidence we have is weak and all you’re doing is appealing to essentially unfalsifiable claims.

I dispute that the walkout was that big (and students claim it was the usual suspects, backing me up there). I dispute that the parental organization was any great number outside of dramatic LAMB parents who have caused trouble their entire time in the Charter system (and the behavior of other parents and the board backs me up here).

I don’t dispute the petition, but it appears in response to a truly necessary call for staff accountability.

I have no kids at DCI and no horse in this race. The video posted flies in the face of bolded. So either the video is AI or you are just making things up and sticking with your story. If an outsider is trying to figure out who is credible, it isn't you.

I don’t have a kid at DCI either but it looked pretty small for a student population with 1600 kids. It’s not like the whole school or even 10% walked out.

You seem very confident for someone who wasn’t there.

The middle school was in testing, so the walkout was limited to the high school. Anyone who was actually present knows almost all students walked out and there was representation from across grades, programs, backgrounds, and friend groups… not just “the usual suspects.”

More importantly, you’re missing the point. Whether it was 300 students or 500 students, that’s an extraordinary event in the life of a school. Students generally don’t leave class, risk disciplinary consequences, organize petitions, testify publicly, and spend months advocating because they’re upset about employee badge swipes.

And since we’re talking about leadership, it’s worth noting that while students were outside making their concerns known, Rosskamm exited through the back of the building rather than facing the students directly. Many people viewed that as emblematic of the broader concern: when confronted with difficult feedback, the response has too often been avoidance rather than engagement.

How many students are not returning next year? That is more of a metric for there displeasure than a silly walkout.

Not really. Most of the kids at DcI have no better option.

NP. Sorry but you are wrong. We turned down private and Latin. Know families who turn down Basis and Walls. Know families who chose DCI over their IB Deal.

Based on this, you’d think DCI is the top middle and high school in DC, but the reality is quite different.

Nope, I never said that. You are making incorrect assumptions typical of DCUM.

70k private wasn’t worth it. We might have considered if we had gotten FA.

Latin weak in math, STEM, sports and extracurriculars. Subpar facilities.

DCI was good enough, strong in STEM and languages, lots of tracking, and kid is having a good experience not only academically but loving his friend group and the sports and clubs.

Why do DCI boosters always have to try to put down another school to justify their choices?

Because they are constantly justifying it to themselves?

It's funny, they always put down Latin and Walls, which are two schools where every parent I know with a kid there is really happy. By contrast the DCI middle school parents I know complain a lot about the screen usage and that it isn't challenging enough. (We are not at any of these schools but live in a EOTP neighborhood where we have neighbors at all of them).

PP here. I am not justifying anything. Please re-read upthread about the statement that DCI families don’t have options. I personally know of a number of families who did and corrected this person. Then I answered someone who stated I thought DCI was the top middle and high school which I said no. I answered why we chose DCI over the options we had.

How am I boosting a school when I countered the statement that DCI was the best school in the city and answered the question why we chose the school over the options we had and stated facts. I said it was good enough.

If you want to call out people boostering, I suggest you call out all the non-DCI families here stating how teachers are leaving in droves and the ship is sinking who believe an anonymous posts with absolutely no kids at the school.

BTW my kid and his friends have not experienced any teachers leaving due to ED.

If you want to be taken seriously, stop criticizing schools you know nothing about. Constantly putting down other schools doesn’t strengthen your argument—it only damages your credibility.

Who is constantly putting down schools? How do you know I know nothing about the school? I answered a question and gave the reasons why we chose DCI based on our research and talking to families. Stating our reasons is actually more credible than not.

So you are saying anytime a family states they are choosing a school over another and gives reasons why with weaknesses and strengths are not credible. Got it.



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Ok, T, this is getting embarrassing. Stop showing your insecurities.

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Is that online? Link?

https://www.instagram.com/dci_newspaper/

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tFezsBJ2KJM2uDW37Gq0kZQyf7Fcqi5fVEjUbl5m_jU/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.4z2kyyema2et

Holy sh*t! This is bad.

DCI is really sinking.

I don’t agree. Seems like a small group is complaining about ensuring teachers are on time. A few people were let go for reasons we can’t legally know. I don’t know why you think a school is “sinking”. By that measure dcps as a whole is fully sunk (wait that might be accurate).

What do these protestors mean by “loss of IB for all”? It makes little sense to me but I’m an outsider.

I am once again asking in what world is 94% of staff, thousands of petition signers, and hundreds of students walking out a "small group"? Stop trying to make small group happen.

I think there were like 12 kids in the walkout, most of the kids didn’t even know it was happening. The staff number is unsurprising, given how teachers rebel against any and all accountability at every school.

Your continued "teachers hate accountability" argument doesn't really explain why students walked out, alumni spoke out, parents organized, and community members testified publicly. At some point, it becomes statistically improbable that every group raising concerns is the problem.

When your explanation for every criticism is that the critic is lazy, uninformed, manipulated, or disgruntled, you're no longer evaluating evidence. You're protecting your (wrong) conclusion.

The evidence we have is weak and all you’re doing is appealing to essentially unfalsifiable claims.

I dispute that the walkout was that big (and students claim it was the usual suspects, backing me up there). I dispute that the parental organization was any great number outside of dramatic LAMB parents who have caused trouble their entire time in the Charter system (and the behavior of other parents and the board backs me up here).

I don’t dispute the petition, but it appears in response to a truly necessary call for staff accountability.

I have no kids at DCI and no horse in this race. The video posted flies in the face of bolded. So either the video is AI or you are just making things up and sticking with your story. If an outsider is trying to figure out who is credible, it isn't you.

I don’t have a kid at DCI either but it looked pretty small for a student population with 1600 kids. It’s not like the whole school or even 10% walked out.

You seem very confident for someone who wasn’t there.

The middle school was in testing, so the walkout was limited to the high school. Anyone who was actually present knows almost all students walked out and there was representation from across grades, programs, backgrounds, and friend groups… not just “the usual suspects.”

More importantly, you’re missing the point. Whether it was 300 students or 500 students, that’s an extraordinary event in the life of a school. Students generally don’t leave class, risk disciplinary consequences, organize petitions, testify publicly, and spend months advocating because they’re upset about employee badge swipes.

And since we’re talking about leadership, it’s worth noting that while students were outside making their concerns known, Rosskamm exited through the back of the building rather than facing the students directly. Many people viewed that as emblematic of the broader concern: when confronted with difficult feedback, the response has too often been avoidance rather than engagement.

How many students are not returning next year? That is more of a metric for there displeasure than a silly walkout.

Not really. Most of the kids at DcI have no better option.

NP. Sorry but you are wrong. We turned down private and Latin. Know families who turn down Basis and Walls. Know families who chose DCI over their IB Deal.

Based on this, you’d think DCI is the top middle and high school in DC, but the reality is quite different.

Nope, I never said that. You are making incorrect assumptions typical of DCUM.

70k private wasn’t worth it. We might have considered if we had gotten FA.

Latin weak in math, STEM, sports and extracurriculars. Subpar facilities.

DCI was good enough, strong in STEM and languages, lots of tracking, and kid is having a good experience not only academically but loving his friend group and the sports and clubs.

Why do DCI boosters always have to try to put down another school to justify their choices?

Because they are constantly justifying it to themselves?

It's funny, they always put down Latin and Walls, which are two schools where every parent I know with a kid there is really happy. By contrast the DCI middle school parents I know complain a lot about the screen usage and that it isn't challenging enough. (We are not at any of these schools but live in a EOTP neighborhood where we have neighbors at all of them).

PP here. I am not justifying anything. Please re-read upthread about the statement that DCI families don’t have options. I personally know of a number of families who did and corrected this person. Then I answered someone who stated I thought DCI was the top middle and high school which I said no. I answered why we chose DCI over the options we had.

How am I boosting a school when I countered the statement that DCI was the best school in the city and answered the question why we chose the school over the options we had and stated facts. I said it was good enough.

If you want to call out people boostering, I suggest you call out all the non-DCI families here stating how teachers are leaving in droves and the ship is sinking who believe an anonymous posts with absolutely no kids at the school.

BTW my kid and his friends have not experienced any teachers leaving due to ED.

If you want to be taken seriously, stop criticizing schools you know nothing about. Constantly putting down other schools doesn’t strengthen your argument—it only damages your credibility.

Who is constantly putting down schools? How do you know I know nothing about the school? I answered a question and gave the reasons why we chose DCI based on our research and talking to families. Stating our reasons is actually more credible than not.

So you are saying anytime a family states they are choosing a school over another and gives reasons why with weaknesses and strengths are not credible. Got it.



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Ok, T, this is getting embarrassing. Stop showing your insecurities.

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Anonymous wrote:School newspaper just dropped a special edition expose. Amazing.

Is that online? Link?

https://www.instagram.com/dci_newspaper/

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tFezsBJ2KJM2uDW37Gq0kZQyf7Fcqi5fVEjUbl5m_jU/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.4z2kyyema2et

Holy sh*t! This is bad.

DCI is really sinking.

I don’t agree. Seems like a small group is complaining about ensuring teachers are on time. A few people were let go for reasons we can’t legally know. I don’t know why you think a school is “sinking”. By that measure dcps as a whole is fully sunk (wait that might be accurate).

What do these protestors mean by “loss of IB for all”? It makes little sense to me but I’m an outsider.

I am once again asking in what world is 94% of staff, thousands of petition signers, and hundreds of students walking out a "small group"? Stop trying to make small group happen.

I think there were like 12 kids in the walkout, most of the kids didn’t even know it was happening. The staff number is unsurprising, given how teachers rebel against any and all accountability at every school.

Your continued "teachers hate accountability" argument doesn't really explain why students walked out, alumni spoke out, parents organized, and community members testified publicly. At some point, it becomes statistically improbable that every group raising concerns is the problem.

When your explanation for every criticism is that the critic is lazy, uninformed, manipulated, or disgruntled, you're no longer evaluating evidence. You're protecting your (wrong) conclusion.

The evidence we have is weak and all you’re doing is appealing to essentially unfalsifiable claims.

I dispute that the walkout was that big (and students claim it was the usual suspects, backing me up there). I dispute that the parental organization was any great number outside of dramatic LAMB parents who have caused trouble their entire time in the Charter system (and the behavior of other parents and the board backs me up here).

I don’t dispute the petition, but it appears in response to a truly necessary call for staff accountability.

I have no kids at DCI and no horse in this race. The video posted flies in the face of bolded. So either the video is AI or you are just making things up and sticking with your story. If an outsider is trying to figure out who is credible, it isn't you.

I don’t have a kid at DCI either but it looked pretty small for a student population with 1600 kids. It’s not like the whole school or even 10% walked out.

You seem very confident for someone who wasn’t there.

The middle school was in testing, so the walkout was limited to the high school. Anyone who was actually present knows almost all students walked out and there was representation from across grades, programs, backgrounds, and friend groups… not just “the usual suspects.”

More importantly, you’re missing the point. Whether it was 300 students or 500 students, that’s an extraordinary event in the life of a school. Students generally don’t leave class, risk disciplinary consequences, organize petitions, testify publicly, and spend months advocating because they’re upset about employee badge swipes.

And since we’re talking about leadership, it’s worth noting that while students were outside making their concerns known, Rosskamm exited through the back of the building rather than facing the students directly. Many people viewed that as emblematic of the broader concern: when confronted with difficult feedback, the response has too often been avoidance rather than engagement.

How many students are not returning next year? That is more of a metric for there displeasure than a silly walkout.

Not really. Most of the kids at DcI have no better option.

NP. Sorry but you are wrong. We turned down private and Latin. Know families who turn down Basis and Walls. Know families who chose DCI over their IB Deal.

Based on this, you’d think DCI is the top middle and high school in DC, but the reality is quite different.

Nope, I never said that. You are making incorrect assumptions typical of DCUM.

70k private wasn’t worth it. We might have considered if we had gotten FA.

Latin weak in math, STEM, sports and extracurriculars. Subpar facilities.

DCI was good enough, strong in STEM and languages, lots of tracking, and kid is having a good experience not only academically but loving his friend group and the sports and clubs.

Why do DCI boosters always have to try to put down another school to justify their choices?

Because they are constantly justifying it to themselves?

It's funny, they always put down Latin and Walls, which are two schools where every parent I know with a kid there is really happy. By contrast the DCI middle school parents I know complain a lot about the screen usage and that it isn't challenging enough. (We are not at any of these schools but live in a EOTP neighborhood where we have neighbors at all of them).

PP here. I am not justifying anything. Please re-read upthread about the statement that DCI families don’t have options. I personally know of a number of families who did and corrected this person. Then I answered someone who stated I thought DCI was the top middle and high school which I said no. I answered why we chose DCI over the options we had.

How am I boosting a school when I countered the statement that DCI was the best school in the city and answered the question why we chose the school over the options we had and stated facts. I said it was good enough.

If you want to call out people boostering, I suggest you call out all the non-DCI families here stating how teachers are leaving in droves and the ship is sinking who believe an anonymous posts with absolutely no kids at the school.

BTW my kid and his friends have not experienced any teachers leaving due to ED.

If you want to be taken seriously, stop criticizing schools you know nothing about. Constantly putting down other schools doesn’t strengthen your argument—it only damages your credibility.

Who is constantly putting down schools? How do you know I know nothing about the school? I answered a question and gave the reasons why we chose DCI based on our research and talking to families. Stating our reasons is actually more credible than not.

So you are saying anytime a family states they are choosing a school over another and gives reasons why with weaknesses and strengths are not credible. Got it.



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Here is what you said. “ Latin weak in math, STEM, sports and extracurriculars. Subpar facilities.”

Here are facts. Latin has better math and science testing results than DCI across the board. Just because DCI may offer more classes doesn’t mean they teach it well.

Kids have gotten into MIT from Latin the last couple of years, I don’t know about earlier years. People look at these facts and find your statements laughable.

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Anonymous wrote:Hit quick too soon, Feel free to counter what I said about above comparison if you wish. But string facts is credibility.

DCI scores are bad overall ( CAPE, SAT, etc.). If you are planning to claim “IB”, only 55% attained the full IB Diploma and only 7 students attained the bilingual IB diploma, which is not exceptionally high compared with many selective IB schools, where diploma pass rates often exceed 80–90%.

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Anonymous wrote:Hit quick too soon, Feel free to counter what I said about above comparison if you wish. But string facts is credibility.

DCI scores are bad overall ( CAPE, SAT, etc.). If you are planning to claim “IB”, only 55% attained the full IB Diploma and only 7 students attained the bilingual IB diploma, which is not exceptionally high compared with many selective IB schools, where diploma pass rates often exceed 80–90%.

From the DCI report card - 13.2% of students met or exceeded expectations in Science. Maybe DCI boosters should look in the mirror before badmouthing other schools.

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I am not going to be going back and forth on this but DCI does have a higher number of at risk, ELL, and SPED. In addition, it is not like Latin is all that great in the 20% either with science.

Also 50% kids getting IB is pretty good for a school that takes all and is not private and/or selective. You need to compare oranges to oranges. If you want your kid to be at a school with 80% IB, go to WIS and pay 60k a year. You don’t need to do that with a high performer at DCI though because they will be tracked at the highest level and will get the IB.

Bottom line, what makes the STEM good at DCI, especially the math, for the highest performing students is that they track based on objective data with standardized test scores. DCI also has the most advanced math tracks in the city for public/charter school.

So understand above and the nuances when looking at general data.

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Anonymous wrote:I am not going to be going back and forth on this but DCI does have a higher number of at risk, ELL, and SPED. In addition, it is not like Latin is all that great in the 20% either with science.

Also 50% kids getting IB is pretty good for a school that takes all and is not private and/or selective. You need to compare oranges to oranges. If you want your kid to be at a school with 80% IB, go to WIS and pay 60k a year. You don’t need to do that with a high performer at DCI though because they will be tracked at the highest level and will get the IB.

Bottom line, what makes the STEM good at DCI, especially the math, for the highest performing students is that they track based on objective data with standardized test scores. DCI also has the most advanced math tracks in the city for public/charter school.

So understand above and the nuances when looking at general data.

More false info from DCI boosters.

BASIS definitely has the most advanced math track in DC. Advanced kids can do Calculus BC in 10th and then move on to Multi Var, Linear Algebra, and/or Diff Eq, taking DE if they want.

Ask me how I know…