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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Very strongly disagree. You’ll find all the crazy oyster boosters out here posting nonsense but the only “plus” for some is the lack of diversity in Adams. Spanish instruction is laughably bad (some teachers don’t even speak it!) and sped services are terrible.

You do you but in my opinion as a native Spanish speaker is to attend dci over Adams. Sure dci is unproven but Adams is a proven disaster. [/quote]

Incorrect, Oyster Stalker.

I have put 3 children through OA.  ALL of their Spanish teachers, without a single exception, were native speakers.  As a matter of fact, a clear majority of the teachers were born, raised and attended college in their native country.

Off the top of my head, here are a few reasons why OA is superior to DCI:
1.  Much better test scores;
2.  Less poverty;
3.  Fewer behavioral issues;
4.  Language immersion trips to Costa Rica, Beijing and a long-standing exchange program with a school in Spain;
5.  Program where 8th graders take the AP Spanish exam;
6.  All native Spanish speaking teachers;
7.  60% of the students are Hispanic/come from Spanish speaking homes;
8.  Rigorous curriculum that the vast majority of the student body can handle;
9.  Lovely, metro accessible locations; and
10.  Not a charter school experiment.[/quote]

For PARCC, are you comparing grade to grade or the entire OA (3rd-8th) to the entire DCI (6-12th)?[/quote]

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