As someone with experience at dci, I disagree. We have been happy. You’re fortunate to have great choices! I would email dci and straight up present these concerns. We had similar choice (not Cooper) and did just that. We decided on dci because of language and clubs dci had that my kiddo was excited about. The math tracking turned out to be a lucky bonus for my neurodivergent kiddo. Best of luck to you. |
There is a lot of rage here. And I don’t know if I’m the person you’re screaming at and name calling, but I agree with this statement. The IB Diploma program is more rigorous than AP. That includes Banneker and eastern. And it is harder for kids to do schoolwork in a foreign language at a high level. This isn’t true for all dci students, but is true for many. I also understand Latin does not offer the same math tracking as dci. This doesn’t affect everyone of course, but for some neurodivergent kids that’s a total lifeline. I also understand Latin may have more advanced tracks for stronger students, but I could be wrong. We were very sold on the IB diploma and the language opportunities with the math turning out to be a wonderful bonus. And yes we also know kids who hated speaking our feeders language and loved going to school when they didn’t have to go through that. Those kids are lucky to have that option IMO! I don’t know what made you upset but people are entitled to share their experiences and opinions on this website. Latin is a fine school as well, and if someone wants to disagree with me they’re absolutely free to do so. I do think it’s worth noting that they’re doing a great job with college acceptances and people seem happy. I don’t know anyone at cooper but we are familiar with many happy Latin families. We are a happy dci family. Op- you’re very lucky! |
Thank you this is helpful. This is what I was told was the set up at Latin as well. However, google says DCI also has self-contained classrooms. Do you know anything about that? |
In no place does the post you are commenting on name call. It simply states facts. Your post was completely unrelated to the one that you quoted and your posts do not address Ops question. People are on this thread to find out about Sped services at these schools and want experiences with that to make an informed decision. You post this same thing on every thread about DCI about Latin students being average to below average, which is false. The post simply responded to that with factual information about some students in a DCI feeder. No rage. |
What kind of services does your child get? It might be helpful to know so people can speak directly to those services. |
Typically they have been in a self-contained class or learning lab with inclusion in gen ed for specials, lunch, recess, field trips, and a relatively small part of the school day. This type of set up would be offered if we go DCPS which has its pros/cons. The full inclusion set up described at Latin/dci would be a new adjustment. Child has no disruptive behavior issues but would require a heavily modified curriculum as they would not be close to the same academic level as peers. |
DCI has great remedial math and English classes. My kids thrived in those and were eventually mainstreamed in math. |
For sure, I think there are some beliefs that are repeated, but it’s not always the same poster. For special needs kids, the difficulty of the school really does matter. If you don’t think so, that’s fine. But please stop screaming at people and trying to police what they write. |
+1. Also the agenda that there is one person writing all this gets tiresome. Just because you don’t agree with what is stated does not mean there is 1 person out to get a school. Mutiple people are responding. Instead of any conspiracy theory of some single person posting all this, just present facts to your argument if you disagree. Should be easy enough. But instead of doing that, oh ignore the posters who have things to say if not positive does nothing to advance your stance. |
There's one crazy person from DCI who is constantly posting (and pretending to be different posters) about how Latin and also School Without Walls are actually very bad schools. It's very obvious, and it would be better if that person were just banned from DCUM. |
Latin does have pull out services for reading and math. |