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[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]

But DCI is offering "3 advanced languages" in name only, while I understand that Adams truly offers advanced Spanish.  As a native Mandarin speakers who has recently volunteered at DCI Chinese track events, I've been unimpressed with how even the most "advanced" Chinese students who've been studying the language for up to 11 years can speak Mandarin. The reality is that my first grader speaks with far greater fluency than these teenagers.  No native Chinese speakers have yet to enroll at DCI.  We've heard similar reports the dismal situation with French instruction. [/quote]

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