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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you for all the comments - we are seriously considering this school for DC (current 7th grader) for HS.  I will need to go to their website to check the curriculum requirements obviously but could anyone clarify a few things?

Are all students required to do the 'dual language IB' diploma?  Or is there an option to do IB only in English?  Our child is not a native speaker of either French or Spanish - she would do Spanish if she got in.

A previous poster wrote:  
It's worth noting as well that WIS maintains strong relationships with embassies and NGOs, the vast majority of whom either pay for or significantly subsidize the tuition for the kids of their employees. This is not a negative at all, but it's important to know that this constituency (and keeping them happy) is intrinsic to the business model.

What does "keeping them happy" mean exactly?  We are currently at a well regarded (at least on DCUM anyway) K-8 and there are some students whose parents are wealthy/big donors/connected and these students (and their close friends) are given a wide berth in terms of academic performance (they are "allowed" to goof off, disrupt in class with minimal consequences) /school class requirements (some of them don't have to take certain classes for unknown reasons) / almost all their bad behavior is tolerated without repercussions.  By now, the other kids in the class have come to accept that these kids are "protected" and there is no point in saying anything because the HOS and administrators want to "keep them happy".  Perhaps this is what happens in all private schools around here (we have no idea as we are both products of public school).

Is this what happens at WIS also with the embassy/NGO families?

Thanks for all the helpful advice.  [/quote]

I'm not sure what 'maintains a strong relationship with NGOs' means.  My DH is at the IMF.  We have never had any official communication from the IMF about WIS.  They don't care where your child attends school.  However, there definitely is a fair bunch of IMF kids there so there is word of mouth within the community.  We also have IMF friends who choose to send their kids to MCPS or other privates.  I can't comment on the school's relationship with embassies. No, the school doesn't go to lengths to 'keep us happy'.  I have no idea of whether there is any 'special' treatment of children of big donors as inevitably happens at other private schools.

None of the IMF kids we know are doing the dual language IB.  They did not go through the immersion program which starts in Pre-K and so are not bilingual in a second language.  Kids who enter from 6th grade onwards are not part of the immersion group unless they arrive already fluent in a language.[/quote]

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