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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many of us are deciding whether to prioritize DCI feeder schools in our lottery choices, including taking on longer commutes and giving up neighborhood schools. Especially  without a guarantee anymore, the academics are absolutely relevant. I’m much less willing to gamble our elementary experience on a chance at a school with academics I don’t have total confidence in. If you take middle and high school out of consideration, school choices look much different.[/quote]

I don't mean to sound patronizing, but if you are trying to decide on how to rank a charter school pre-K program in your lottery list based on where this year's DCI graduates are going to college, you are in for a long a bumpy road with DCPS. By the time your child is in high school, [b]DCI will be a very different place (for better or worse), and neighborhood or language charter feeder patterns will likely have shifted, again. [/b]Charters are a big experiment and the DC government is unpredictable. The whole thing, on some level, is a gamble.[/quote]

I'm just not convinced of this. Why not?  Because the situation in the feeder schools has been fairly static for years now.

The immersion in the elementary grades hasn't been too serious all along for parents who elect not to take it seriously, or can't take it seriously (mainly lack of home resources), particularly at Stokes and YuYing.  The number of native speakers in all of these programs has been slowly dropping for years, the math has never been terribly challenging, weak school leaders stay for years and years, etc.  DCI's demographics will shift somewhat in the next 6-10 years, but not incredibly.  One glaring problem is that the strongest 4th graders from the feeders mostly still decamp for BASIS, Washington Latin, privates and the burbs, a trend which doesn't bode DCI.  There's an stubbornly insistent, and inconvenient, brain drain pre-DCI that just doesn't seem to be abating.

Parents can't force DCI to run a demanding IBD program, with average pass point totals in the 30s.  They can wish away DCI's lack of rigor away, and do their utmost to compensate for it outside of school, but they can't excise it by dint of their good intentions.  [/quote]

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