DCI Parent Petition

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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%.

DCI is in the bottom half of the world in average IB scores. They do worse than schools in many developing countries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous[b 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. [/b] 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.

I see this a lot but DCI is only 15.9% at risk and 17% EL (which is surprising given its mission). In comparison, Macfarland is 44% EL and 56% at risk. Latin Cooper has 20% at risk and 2nd street 13%.

[Anonymous]

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.

Why not try to defend DCI without disparaging other schools, especially when not warranted?

For the record, here are the met or exceeding numbers for CAPE science.

DCI 13.2 (combined Middle and High School)
Latin 2nd Street Middle 29.4
Latin Cooper Middle 31.6
Latin 2nd Upper School. 48.3
Basis 49.8

Obviously no public school in DC is doing great in science, but DCI’s score isn’t a margin of error difference with the others. DCI can be good for STEM, but if you need to put down other schools to prove it, it makes you look silly when the facts don’t show DCI is clearly better, but in fact suggest otherwise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous[b 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. [/b] 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.

I see this a lot but DCI is only 15.9% at risk and 17% EL (which is surprising given its mission). In comparison, Macfarland is 44% EL and 56% at risk. Latin Cooper has 20% at risk and 2nd street 13%.

Just a reminder that ELL is an ability designation, not a demographic one. ELL percentages don’t indicate the number of students who primarily speak another language at home, but those who haven’t yet passed the WIDA test. Since DCI students have been in dual language environments since PK, you would want the ELL percentage to be as close to zero as possible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous[b 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. [/b] 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.

I see this a lot but DCI is only 15.9% at risk and 17% EL (which is surprising given its mission). In comparison, Macfarland is 44% EL and 56% at risk. Latin Cooper has 20% at risk and 2nd street 13%.

Just a reminder that ELL is an ability designation, not a demographic one. ELL percentages don’t indicate the number of students who primarily speak another language at home, but those who haven’t yet passed the WIDA test. Since DCI students have been in dual language environments since PK, you would want the ELL percentage to be as close to zero as possible.

This is a response to PP who points to the high EL population as a reason DCI is doing better with its students than other schools.

[Anonymous]

I thought the person who said that the EL population of only 17% “given its mission” was trying to say that there was a low population of native Spanish speakers compared to MacFarland. I’m just pointing out that that 17% does not indicate the number of students who speak English as a second language. It indicates the percentage that hasn’t yet mastered English, which should be very low if they’ve already been in a dual language school for 7+ years.

[Anonymous]

Props to Rosskamm having his chauffeur in his Maybach waiting for him after the DCI middle school graduation to get him to the high school graduation. Good thing he made it in time!

[Anonymous]

Is anyone else listening to this DCI board meeting? It's kind of insane.