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[quote=Anonymous]Wow, you YY people are diabolical in the way you turn every thread into a YY thread.

On topic...

[quote]What I'd like to see, although nobody's talking about it, is for all the immersion elementary schools to have a direct feed into DCI, whether charter or DCPS. Is there no scope for a charter-DCPS hybrid school? Kaya Henderson has been talking about the concept of late. Seems artificial to exclude, for example, Oyster. That way, you would have more strong students than not. [b]I worry that too much in the way of open lottery admissions could hurt the school in a city with such dramatic disparities between the prep most upper-middle-class kids come in with and others.[/b] The language immersion school kids, regardless of class, tend to be much better prepped than others. [/quote]

Well, yes, this is an issue. You can see it as a problem or an opportunity, but the result is the same. There are far more students without language immersion in need of a good MS option than there are these allegedly better prepared immersion students (I say this because there is no real long term data to support that they are or are not better prepared since this assertion doesn't specify what exactly they are better prepared for...), and DCI needs to stop focusing on a "safe" option for their feeder school kids, and instead focus on creating a strong MS option that can accommodate all students. This will keep the seats full and the doors open, which is the one of the great challenges ahead for DCI.[/quote]

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