Middle School at DCI

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DCI has more than enough customers who are fine with the current set up.

I can't see them changing it to please more ambitious parents and better students.

If you think DCI cant deal with ambitious parents, then they are in for a world of trouble from our feeder school.

which one?

Lamb Pcs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We don't. Not satisfied with our 5th grade experience. Looking for more challenge, order, and MYP curriculum savvy on the part of admins. Moving on to a Condordia immersion camp, parochial school and MoCo weekend program.

Omg you are moving to a parochial school and you’re bragging about academic rigor??

HILARIOUS. Also enough with Concordia. Some of us are truly native speakers and can afford to travel and get a true immersion experience.

Still laughing about “academic rigor” at parochial schools. HAHAHA

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:PP is spot on. Deal is good by DC standards by that means nothing. I know more than a few parents who were shocked when they finally moved to VA and their kids were in legitimately high performing schools, with real tracking and academic standards.

Agree!

Don't want to be shocked by my bright kid's unexceptional international baccalaureate, SAT, AP etc. scores 7 or 8 years from now.


DCI is a social experiment I'm not going to risk. My children speak one of the DCI languages taught at almost the native speaker level. But that's neither here nor there where DCI goes.

How is DCI a social experiment?

How fragile are your kids?

The curriculum has been around forever and is tried and true. Not sure why your obvious racism is causing you to panic.

Better question - how bored are my upper grades kids (black belts in martial arts now that I think of it) becoming in most subjects at a feeder. The IBD curriculum hasn't been around forever - I earned the Diploma in the 80s at one of the few public high schools in the country following the curriculum then.

We're definitely not white, while you are demonstrably an angry, knee jerk race baiter. So long!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCI has more than enough customers who are fine with the current set up.

I can't see them changing it to please more ambitious parents and better students.

If you think DCI cant deal with ambitious parents, then they are in for a world of trouble from our feeder school.

which one?

Lamb Pcs

Sorry, not buying it. Ambition and DCI aren't synonymous, not yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCI has more than enough customers who are fine with the current set up.

I can't see them changing it to please more ambitious parents and better students.

If you think DCI cant deal with ambitious parents, then they are in for a world of trouble from our feeder school.

which one?

Lamb Pcs

Sorry, not buying it. Ambition and DCI aren't synonymous, not yet.

LAMB students and parent/ are outnumbered (by far) at DCI by parents from the other, larger feeder cohorts. Further the administration is not particularly interested in parent feedback. They have a program and are sticking with it. Middle / high school is not elementary school — you won’t hav relationships with most teachers or admins just because you won’t be in the building very much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We don't. Not satisfied with our 5th grade experience. Looking for more challenge, order, and MYP curriculum savvy on the part of admins. Moving on to a Condordia immersion camp, parochial school and MoCo weekend program.

There is no 5th grade at DCI.

[Anonymous]

I think PP was talking about experience at a feeder. Not staying in DC public charter system.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People who want to talk about DCI without talking about preparedness in target languages, and level or rigor in language classes, can't see the forest for the trees. Kids coming up through feeders are supposed to be well positioned to ace IB Diploma language exams to help them stand out in college admissions. Language skills, especially in speaking and listening, are supposed to be one of their strong suits relative to the competition, after all those years in 50% of partial immersion! How lame that DCI probably won't even offer HL language classes.

If you want your kid to ace IBD math, middle school at BASIS would obviously be much better prep than the DCI experience. If you want them to ace IB humanities, middle school at Wash Latin, Deal or a private would obviously be much better prep.

Sorry, but on what basis are you speculating no HL classes? DCI is offering HL foreign language, not just SL. Starting with next year's Diploma Program students (that starts in 11th).

DCI can offer all the HL language classes it wants, but if most of the kids don't do well on Diploma exams, what of it? Diploma exams stress speaking skills. You either need a good cohort of native speakers in a strong program to build these skills, or weeks and weeks of supplemental immersion experiences elsewhere over the years (e.g. au pairs at home who don't let kids answer in English, Concordia camps etc. not cheap).

Banneker has had a Diploma program for 20 years and their average points totals still stink. The points total pass range is mid 20s to mid 40s. At Banneker, the average pass is in the 20s and at least one-third of Diploma students don't pass every year.

[Anonymous]

If high Diploma scores are what you're after, can't see DCI being your solution.

If you're more interested in a diverse student body, a paperless (or at least low paper and textbook) program and friendly admins, DCI will be your speed!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Imagine if fully one-third of your child’s class was comprised of kids who were simultaneously prone to physical violence, lacked intellectual curiosity and were flat out unable to behave themselves in a civilized manner. Welcome to middle school at DCI, an abject failure by any objective standard.

DCI is a public school that must educate everyone and meet kids (all of them) where they are. If they literally can’t engage 1/3 of the students, they need to retrain their teachers.

Have you ever paused to consider the fact that it is the fault of the kids (coupled with the parents who don’t raise them) and not the fault of the teachers? Whenever there is a failure in the community, the community never says: this failure is our fault, we need to do better. Instead, the community invariably blames someone outside the community, eg, the teachers, the police, the gun laws, the economy, the President and even (according to Trayon White) the jews who are manipulating the weather. At some point, should you look inside the community for the cause of the problem?

[Anonymous]

Huh? What a trippy post. No idea what you're talking about, particularly re Jews and the weather.