Chance at DCI lottery with no preferences, 6th grade

[Anonymous]

What are our chances for an incoming 6th grader, not at a feeder school, not a sibling. Do folks anticipate the current crop of 5th graders will shut out everyone else?

[Anonymous]

You can enter for DCI 6th 3x if you don't care which language track your child is entering.

it's really hard to discern a pattern from year to year from the released lottery data. They have always take a few to a dozen or so students at 6th in each language although demand is far higher than that.

[Anonymous]

It isn't something to count on or base decision on, but it doesn't hurt to try.

[Anonymous]

I thnk DCPS immersion elem should get seats set aside at DCI as well. Why do we keep punishing kids who dont have luck in the lottery when they are 6 years old all the way through middle school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thnk DCPS immersion elem should get seats set aside at DCI as well. Why do we keep punishing kids who dont have luck in the lottery when they are 6 years old all the way through middle school.

The DCPS immersion programs aren’t taking students into their programs at 6th either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thnk DCPS immersion elem should get seats set aside at DCI as well. Why do we keep punishing kids who dont have luck in the lottery when they are 6 years old all the way through middle school.

The DCPS immersion programs aren’t taking students into their programs at 6th either.

Uh, because there is a feeder pattern for DCPS immersion elementaries - either Adams or McFarland.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thnk DCPS immersion elem should get seats set aside at DCI as well. Why do we keep punishing kids who dont have luck in the lottery when they are 6 years old all the way through middle school.

The DCPS immersion programs aren’t taking students into their programs at 6th either.

Uh, because there is a feeder pattern for DCPS immersion elementaries - either Adams or McFarland.

This. That poster hasn’t had its morning coffee yet I guess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thnk DCPS immersion elem should get seats set aside at DCI as well. Why do we keep punishing kids who dont have luck in the lottery when they are 6 years old all the way through middle school.

There is no way DCPS would create a pipeline that resulted in them losing more kids to charter schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thnk DCPS immersion elem should get seats set aside at DCI as well. Why do we keep punishing kids who dont have luck in the lottery when they are 6 years old all the way through middle school.

DCPS immersion students have feeder paths for immersion studies through high school -- Adams or MacFarland/Roosevelt.

DCI is required to offer seats to any student (language studies background or not) who is interested via the lottery from 6th through 9th. There is never going to be a preference for students from an immersion program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thnk DCPS immersion elem should get seats set aside at DCI as well. Why do we keep punishing kids who dont have luck in the lottery when they are 6 years old all the way through middle school.

DCPS immersion students have feeder paths for immersion studies through high school -- Adams or MacFarland/Roosevelt.

DCI is required to offer seats to any student (language studies background or not) who is interested via the lottery from 6th through 9th. There is never going to be a preference for students from an immersion program.

I thought the Language immersion charters got lottery preference?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thnk DCPS immersion elem should get seats set aside at DCI as well. Why do we keep punishing kids who dont have luck in the lottery when they are 6 years old all the way through middle school.

DCPS immersion students have feeder paths for immersion studies through high school -- Adams or MacFarland/Roosevelt.

DCI is required to offer seats to any student (language studies background or not) who is interested via the lottery from 6th through 9th. There is never going to be a preference for students from an immersion program.

I thought the Language immersion charters got lottery preference?

Yes the DCI feeder schools get a preference. But any seats not taken by those students are offered in the lottery. A PP was saying that DCPS immersion students should also get a preference at DCI.

[Anonymous]

DC public isn't nearly serious enough about language immersion studies to offer a preference for students coming out of DCPS immersion programs. The DCI LEA could be changed to provide for that. No hope, lack of ambition prevents it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC public isn't nearly serious enough about language immersion studies to offer a preference for students coming out of DCPS immersion programs. The DCI LEA could be changed to provide for that. No hope, lack of ambition prevents it.

Like PPs said- DCPS is not going to support a move to pull its students to charters and also, it’s the law. Charters are not allowed to show preference- the law would have to pass to change it (like staff preference was passed into law).

[Anonymous]

So use common and show the academic ambition of public schools in other US cities, e.g. NYC, Chicago, Boston. DC could reinvent DCI as a hybrid DCPS-charter school with a different LEA. It's been done in other cities.

If the DCPS Spanish immersion programs fed to DCI, we'd probably have a first-rate International Baccalaureate Diploma program in the city offering higher level IB Spanish within 6 or 8 years. At the rate we're going, we're not going to get that from DCI for, say, 20 years. The strongest Spanish students are sprinkled around in middle school and high school. Not impressive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So use common and show the academic ambition of public schools in other US cities, e.g. NYC, Chicago, Boston. DC could reinvent DCI as a hybrid DCPS-charter school with a different LEA. It's been done in other cities.

If the DCPS Spanish immersion programs fed to DCI, we'd probably have a first-rate International Baccalaureate Diploma program in the city offering higher level IB Spanish within 6 or 8 years. At the rate we're going, we're not going to get that from DCI for, say, 20 years. The strongest Spanish students are sprinkled around in middle school and high school. Not impressive.

Your goal is not shared by any policy makers in the city.

DCPS wants to grow neighborhood schools. DCI is trying to prove a model.

If you want the city to have different goals apply to be the DME, run for council or mayor.