DCI feeder families, with 4th graders, lottery?

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01/31/2023 23:57

Subject: Re:DCI feeder families, with 4th graders, lottery?

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody's being spoken to in Mandarin "all day at school" at DCI. This wasn't happening at YY either.

The only DCI Chinese track students who speak the language well are the handful who've have had at least one native-speaking adult in the home for years who requires the kids to speak Chinese. If you're a native speaker of Mandarin and you've spent time around YY and DCI kids for years speaking Chinese, you know what I'm talking about.

Even the most advanced Mandarin speakers in DCI's HS struggle to communicate in Chinese in view of the fact that they've been studying the language for more than a decade. These kids generally can't score high (6s-7s) on any IB Diploma Higher Level subject. What happens is that hardly any of these kids earn IB Diploma points totals in the high 30s or 40s, which is routine at half a dozen public IBD programs in this Metro area. Even so, DCI still gets some decent college acceptances.

If DCI parents minded the school's mediocre IBD scores, they'd pay for WIS or move to the burbs for one of the IBD programs where most students score high. The list isn't long: Washington-Liberty in Arlington, 3 or 4 programs in Fairfax, Bethesda Chevy Chase's school-within-a-school program or Richard Montgomery in Rockville (test-in, 8th grade, 10% admitted).

So tired of the same Chinese mom here saying the same thing ad nauseam and giving false information about MoCo schools.

First, if you don't have a kid at DCI, stop trolling the board on every DCI thread. This is what happens on every thread is back and forth about the damn Chinese from the same person. Get a life.

Second, if you have a kid at DCI and are not happy about no native speakers then move to where there are. Some families at DCI who are not native, like PP above, do prioritize the language. Some don’t and are happy their kid understands it and can speak it but are not proficient. Some families are new and just beginning the language. You don’t see anyone else’s perspective but your own self absorbed one with what you want for your kid. Just go to WIS then if you want to stay in the city with all the other self absorbed entitled parents.

Lastly, NO, most kids in the MoCo program are NOT routinely scoring in the high 30’s and 40. This is your perception which is not reality based at all. if RM which attracts the top 1% in MoCo has only a 70% pass rate then that clearly tells you that. This is pass rate so the 70% left that pass are not all scoring so high. I would bet their IB averages is probably in the 33 or 34 range at best.

Thank you PP, I haven't been on DCUM in a pretty long while, but there were obsessive posters just like the "No one at DCI or YY speaks Chinese unless there's a native speaker in the home" PP All. The. Time. Every time YY was brought up it brought out the same 3 people (well it was probably more than 3 then, but I totally believe it's only 1 now) who either went on about the Principal not being Chinese; the school not accepting Cantonese native speakers just because they are Cantonese native speakers (YY has always been strict lottery, as much as most of us would have loved more native speaking children to lottery in, a lottery is a lottery so NO language considerations went into admissions); and the people who said what above PP said: these kids can't actually speak Mandarin. It was old then; it's dead & decayed now but there are always a few holdouts.

None of that is to say that DCI's Chinese program is perfect - not even close. But we value it and we're glad we're there.