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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]BASIS DC is the best option for any academically minded kid.[/quote]
I think the IB is a much more rigorous program than taking a bunch of AP tests. I think DCI offers much more in terms of sports, clubs, extracurricular, than Basis.[/quote]

I am sure that DCI does a good job teaching kids’ a second language but the IB “rigor” at DCI is a myth. Just compare PARCC scores between DCI and BASIS DC.  Take proficiency scores for 8th grade, for example, after kids have been at each school for several years:

DCI:

ELA 	48.73%
Math	33.05%

BASIS

ELA 	85.22%
Math	73.3%
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There's so much gaslighting on DCUM that I have to ask - are these scores accurate and real? I am unsurprised that BASIS has higher scores as the population is self selecting for kids who generally do well on tests But I'm floored by how poor the DCI scores are. The idea tha 65+% of the 8th grade is below grade level is kind of frightening to me.   [/quote]

I am not the person who posted these scores, and can't verify, but I'm not surprised. DCI sent out an email warning parents about how dismal PARCC scores were, last year. Consider this: a bunch of mathy kids peel off for BASIS, a few more for Latin, some move away or go private. So, you have feeders that do an OK but not great job with educating these students, and then you deal with attrition, and many best students leave. (How many kids actually move on to DCI from Yu Ying, for example?)

This is why my seventh grader gets no homework, and the novel they are "reading" in class (because it cannot be assigned as homework, or kids won't read it at all, as the teacher explained) is actually listening to the audio book while having text projected onto the whiteboard. And this is a class that I actually think she is getting something out of. Several of her other classes have been hijacked by disruptive students, to the point that the teacher has given up on teaching.

Now, is the situation similarly dismal in many other middle schools? My bet is yes. Just take a look at the post about the dismal conditions in a well-regarded elementary school in MCPS, in the elementary school subsection. Probably if a school offers some differentiation, things are better. [/quote]

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