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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kids in Fairfax can start languages much earlier than 8th grade, but on a voluntary basis. Same in MoCo and Arlington. DC is a redneck school system, mediocre or weak at teaching almost everything but math and science at BASIS. Period.[/quote]

The crux of the problem, which those posting about language instruction at BASIS have been dancing around, is how screwed up the DC public school system is as whole.

There are only 7 or 8 charter schools in the entire state of VA, none in Fairfax or Arlington. While almost half of the students in DC public schools are enrolled in charters, most families in the VA burbs and MoCo embrace their by-right schools.

It follows that the strongest STEM oriented MS & HS programs in the burbs offer far more than AP test prep. Their senior admins aren't 20-somethings, like most have been at BASIS DC. Suburban middle schools routinely provide students coming up through ES immersion programs with both appropriate language classes and challenging work in core subjects.

It seems pointless to blame DCI's leadership for failing to offer rigorous enough STEM classes to keep language immersion grads from running to BASIS when the real culprits have been District politicians ever since Home Rule began in the 70s.  IMHO, the competition for academic outputs shouldn't be between DC charters. The game of one upmanship should be played between the best comprehensive middle and high schools in the District and the best in the burbs. We already have the demographics to start to compete.[/quote]

Many, many words. What they prove is that you have no idea WTF you are talking about. DC didn't create the charter system in DC, Congress did. The reason we have this system and VA does not (to use your example) is that the reps from VA and elsewhere imposed on DC a system they would never have federally required in their own states.

You are blaming Home Rule but the current system was created 25 years later. If you want to have even a basic idea pf what you are talking about try googling "The District of Columbia School Reform Act of 1995" and start reading. [/quote]

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