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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCI is really good and getting better every year! It appears to take a couple of years for the kids from a couple of the feeders to settle into IB and behavioral norms. It's tough--lots of differences between the feeders and then the joys of middle schoolers to boot....[b]The real success is seen at the HS level[/b]: the kids have adapted to a big school, IB, and adolescence! Our child has thrived there and wouldn't want to be anywhere else. [/quote]

Come on, we're always mired in relativism in DC public.  I once taught at the Richard Montgomery IB Diploma program in Rockville, which is so far ahead of DCI in offering challenge to the strongest students that there's really no basis for comparison.

If your metric for measuring DCI's high school performance is the performance of the in-boundary DCPS programs the students are avoiding, OK, you win. Real success.[/quote]

Reality is DCI is a hell of a lot better than almost all public middle and non test in high school in the city.  One could argue about Deal & Wilson but they have major problems now with overcrowding, large class sizes, and honors for all in Wilson which is a mess and counter to differentiating kids.  Unfortunately that’s the reality of things[/quote]

Adams is much better than DCI.  Full stop.[/quote]

Adams isn't offering 3 advanced languages. It is far smaller. And its at-risk and economically disadvantaged student populations are lower. [/quote]

You are a prime example of people posting on DCUM with no actual knowledge of the topic.  In addition to Spanish, Adams offers daily Mandarin instruction to 6th through 8th graders who qualify (they must test at or above grade level in all subjects by the end of 5th grade). Adams also offers its students a 2 week trip language immersion trip to Beijing.

Adams smaller size, lower poverty and higher scores are a huge plus.[/quote]

ADVANCED language studies, DCI offers classes for students who have been in a French, Chinese or Spanish program since grade school (they also have to offer beginner or intermediate levels in each).

I didn't say Adams was bad. IMO it's ridiculous to try and compare the relative merits of a school with 70 students per grade who have been together since kindergarten with one that has 200+ students coming from 5 feeders, each with a different curriculum as well as students entering from outside their feeder via the lottery.[/quote]

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