Reply to Why apply to one of the DCI feeder schools...

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "Why apply to one of the DCI feeder schools..."

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about students at the DCPS dual-language schools?  Can they lottery in at 9th grade?

What about those with home-language or test-verifiable proficiency in one of the DCI target language programs?   Can they get in?

I'm thinking of this because DC is at a DCPS bilingual program and we speak Spanish at home; I have no doubt DC would take to a school like this with ease, and Walter Reed is close to home.  Is there anything wrong with trying to go that route?[/quote]

The lottery will be open to all. It will be up to the parents to get additional help in a target language if they lottery for DCI and there child has no past experience. My DC is currently at Powell Dual Language School and we are hoping to lottery for DCI for 6th grade.  Charters aren't allowed to test-in applicants. I don't see why a parent would lottery is heir child doesn't have any past language experience. They will be doing their child a disservice. [/quote]

Where is it stated that there will be a lottery?  I thought the whole point of feeder schools was to have enough students to sustain the middle and high school, knowing there will be attrition.  How do you lottery in at 6th or 9th grade and still graduate fluently bilingual and with an IB degree if you can't test for language proficiency and you haven't been at an IB school before?[/quote]

NP.  If you look at their preliminary charter, they state there will be lotteries to fill any open spaces for grades 6, 7, 8, and 9th.  I suspect that most will not graduate with an IB degree especially in the early years when DCI may take more students from the lottery than from it's feeder schools.  Just b/c someone goes to an IB school does not mean they will graduate with an IB degree.

Also, if you look at the feeders especially YY, their current class sizes in 3, 4, 5th grades are much much smaller than their lower grades.   MV does not yet have a third grade or higher.   So when DCI first opens, there will be many more spaces open to new students if DCI chooses to make those spaces available which they may or may not do.  DCI probably won't achieve full capacity from it's feeders until 4-5 yrs from now.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics