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I am very much looking forward to the DCI school.  The rigors of the [u][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IB_Diploma]IB Diploma Programme[/url][/u] allow for advanced/gifted/ambitious students to take an internationally recognized challenging course load.  Given that charters aren't allowed to select their students (although it's nice that all the bilingual students will get preference, and I hope Sela decides to join that mix), then tracking with highly-regarded and internationally benchmarked standards (primarily used at private schools) is the next best thing.

http://www.ibo.org/diploma/curriculum/[/quote]

OP again.   I agree wholeheartedly with those who see the need for bona fide GT programs in DC, and don't agree that Stuart Hobson and Eliot-Hine are OK for anybody's kids as is.  But I'm skeptical about DCI working well for advanced learners, mainly because YY is leading the charge, its boosters and administrators tend to be seriously smug and fairly impractical.   We passed on YY, though we speak Chinee at home, mainly because the school is only around 2% bilingual and nobody there seemed to mind.   A couple long DCUM threads on the subject have validated our concerns.

With most DCI kids probably going to lottery in, and long-standing resistance to tracking in DC public  schools, how much could the IB curriculum do for  the place?  I earned the full diploma in HS coming out of a GT program - full IB is GT by another name.   Tracking only for math, the new norm, isn't going to produce a cohort of IB diploma-ready kids.  It's easy to do IB subject tests (they're easier than AP tests) but earning the full diploma, most of what makes the program worthwhile  for HS, probably needs ES and MS GT as a building block.

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