Oyster Adams versus DCI

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pp you’re knocking is correct. The majority of AMERICAN IBD schools are not private. Internationally, they are.

If you are looking at IB score averages and rigor, you should look at it from all schools worldwide and not just US schools. By far the international schools have stronger programs than US school.

I bet if you just look at US averages the average IB score would be pulled down and lower than 32.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCi is essentially set up to help first gen college students of color get to good colleges. Just shooting for IB Diploma usually does the trick.

UMC families need to tink about hiring college counselors, doing their own college planning, and supplementing academically all the way up. DCI can still work for these families, but at a cost in time, money, research, hustle. I understand that JR isn't all that different where AP goes.

Shut up, how many students of color that go to DCI would be first generation college students? Not many. This was definitely written by a white person that lives in a bubble!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCi is essentially set up to help first gen college students of color get to good colleges. Just shooting for IB Diploma usually does the trick.

UMC families need to tink about hiring college counselors, doing their own college planning, and supplementing academically all the way up. DCI can still work for these families, but at a cost in time, money, research, hustle. I understand that JR isn't all that different where AP goes.

Oh! I never knew students of color couldn’t be UMC! I hate your kind.

[Anonymous]

Grow up. If you're hell bent on taking offense, you'll invariably read too much into any given post to get there.

-Parent of Color who Doesn't Think Either Oyster-Adams or DCI is Worth It

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCi is essentially set up to help first gen college students of color get to good colleges. Just shooting for IB Diploma usually does the trick.

UMC families need to tink about hiring college counselors, doing their own college planning, and supplementing academically all the way up. DCI can still work for these families, but at a cost in time, money, research, hustle. I understand that JR isn't all that different where AP goes.

Shut up, how many students of color that go to DCI would be first generation college students? Not many. This was definitely written by a white person that lives in a bubble!

I posted this, though I'm not white and grew up in public housing. The "bubble" I lived in wasn't English speaking at home.

Post above is BS. Plenty of the low SES LATINO students at DCI would be first gen (though not many seem to be on track to earn IBD).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Grow up. If you're hell bent on taking offense, you'll invariably read too much into any given post to get there.

-Parent of Color who Doesn't Think Either Oyster-Adams or DCI is Worth It

So why are you posting here? Im confused.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grow up. If you're hell bent on taking offense, you'll invariably read too much into any given post to get there.

-Parent of Color who Doesn't Think Either Oyster-Adams or DCI is Worth It

So why are you posting here? Im confused.

You are the LAMB/DCI parent that gets mad every time someone doesn’t think LAMB or DCI is as good as you think they are. Get over yourself!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grow up. If you're hell bent on taking offense, you'll invariably read too much into any given post to get there.

-Parent of Color who Doesn't Think Either Oyster-Adams or DCI is Worth It

So why are you posting here? Im confused.

We have experience with both Adams & DCI. Supplementing wore us out & cost plenty. When we got to MoCo, kid struggled to work at grade level despite years of excellent grades in DC public schools.

We have nothing to do with LAMB.

Best not to kid yourselves, folks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grow up. If you're hell bent on taking offense, you'll invariably read too much into any given post to get there.

-Parent of Color who Doesn't Think Either Oyster-Adams or DCI is Worth It

So why are you posting here? Im confused.

We have experience with both Adams & DCI. Supplementing wore us out & cost plenty. When we got to MoCo, kid struggled to work at grade level despite years of excellent grades in DC public schools.

We have nothing to do with LAMB.

Best not to kid yourselves, folks.

You have experience at Adams and DCI? How is that? Your kid went from DCI and transferred to Adams? Went from Adams to DCI?

[Anonymous]

Best not to be the troll who has to constantly validate their life choice to move to MOCO. Why do you care so much that you're always posting on a DC forum? Go live your best life in sterile MOCO.

[Anonymous]

Complicated history, divorce, moved from NW to NE as single parent. Should have moved from NW to MoCo directly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Best not to be the troll who has to constantly validate their life choice to move to MOCO. Why do you care so much that you're always posting on a DC forum? Go live your best life in sterile MOCO.

There are at least 2 PPs on this thread who left DCI for MoCo. When we were at DCI, we knew other families who bailed for MoCo after 6th or 7th grades. But that was during the pandemic. Maybe things at DCI are good enough now that more families on the fence are staying. Spare us your conspiracy theories about one parent who moved to MoCo constantly posting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Same concern. I'm told that my sibling's teens in MoCo are strongly encouraged to double up on IB and AP exams. They started taking AP exams in 9th grade, arranged by their public school.

Former DCI parent here, now in moco. This is true. My kid is taking her first AP exam in May. She is in 9th and supposedly in the easiest AP course. She was not prepared for the workload and had to learn notetaking as well as study skills. Can't blame it all on dci but middle school seems to be a weak link there as well as here in moco.

MS seems to be the weak link everywhere. MS is a hard time to be a kid and we are only now starting to collect non-pandemic data again. We will likely confirm it is still the weak link everywhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grow up. If you're hell bent on taking offense, you'll invariably read too much into any given post to get there.

-Parent of Color who Doesn't Think Either Oyster-Adams or DCI is Worth It

So why are you posting here? Im confused.

We have experience with both Adams & DCI. Supplementing wore us out & cost plenty. When we got to MoCo, kid struggled to work at grade level despite years of excellent grades in DC public schools.

We have nothing to do with LAMB.

Best not to kid yourselves, folks.

PP, sorry your kid struggled at first in MoCo. I’m sure their school there is great.

Another data point - our kid went to OA through 8th then JR. Graduated with 10 APs. Admitted to a highly selective LAC, where he currently has a 4.0. Unlike what many folks on this forum will post, our kid did a TON of writing at JR and is getting great feedback on his writing now in college (including being asked to turn one of his papers into an article for publication by a prof, and being offered a paid internship based largely on the strength of his writing).

I think many kids’ experiences are largely luck based on which teachers they have and which cohort they are in.

[Anonymous]

When kids attended DCPS schools is also relevant. A few years ago, things were better at JR, and Adams, than they are now.