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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know this specific school and I live in Germany, not DC, but I taught for a year at the German International School in another major East Coast US city.  All German International Schools abroad follow the same curriculum standards (state of Thuringia), so I can't imagine the German International School in DC is much different from the one where I taught.

The truth: many German families in the area were unhappy with the school and chose to put their children in other local private or public schools.

The German school was small and [b]cash-strapped, so had to accept every German child who applied.  This meant many behaviour and SEN issues, and the staff did not have the support or resources to fully support them.  It drove down the quality of education for all.  In addition, the school was desperately attempting to attract non-German kids to raise funds, [/b]but the truth was that unless they started in kindergarten, they never really became fluent enough to have a chance at the Abitur.

As for the non Germans who started when they were little, their German wasn't as good as that of the native German kids, and as they got older, the difference between kids from non-German speaking kids got more noticeable.  And teachers found it difficult to work with non-German speaking parents who couldn't help with homework.  Even the American kids who best adapted to the German language at the school were less likely to do the Abitur than they would have been if their parents spoke German at home.

So I would say no.  If the GIS in DC is the same as the one where I worked, I would not advise that you apply.  [/quote]

These same problems are the downward drivers in quality of education in ALL lower tier DC area Privates ever since they all joined the Facilities arms race and over spent and over borrowed making themselves desperately tuition dependent

It’s doubly true when as a “ International School” a school is already tied to WB& IMF as without those families to fill half the slots they would be grossly under enrolled and belly up in less than a year [/quote]

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