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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not a fan of the DCI concept. It's essentially a private school for graduates of the feeder schools, at the public's expense.

Charters were supposed to be open to all students city-wide.[/quote]

You are so right!  Who do these parents... who live in DC... and got their spots in a lottery (or through sibling preference after getting in in the lottery)... and come from all over the District... who do they think they are?  Because we all know DC public charter schools are ONLY for DC residents who get in through random admission or sibling preference!!!  The nerve of them!!!

:roll:  :roll:  :roll:

In all seriousness PP, your post begs the question: if you don't think schools full to their capacity of DC resident kids who got in NOT by paying exorbitant school fees but by applying and winning the lottery don't deserve to track into middle and high schools (um, just like DCPS has feeder schools full of public school kids), then exactly WHO do you think SHOULD be at the school?  [/quote]

It's a new school. It should have a new lottery and/or and entrance exam open to all.[/quote]

Again, you are missing a giant important piece of the puzzle: it is a new school that was [b]formed specifically to allow a language pathway for students to graduate from 12th grade fluent in 2 languages and proficient in a 3rd[/b].  You can't have a serious conversation about DCI without understanding that.

DCI was not some idea for a middle and high school that then, as an afterthought, someone said "Oh, elementary schools should feed it".  It grew OUT of the lack of language options for students in bilingual elementary schools to continue their language learning.  It was created for a purpose, and opening the lottery up to all new students completely destroys and erases the whole point of the school.

DCI does and will also have slots for brand new students and a track for them to graduate proficient in a 2nd language (I think DCI founders assume every student will be fluent in English by graduation, and either fluent in the 2nd language they did since elementary school plus proficient in a 3rd chosen in middle, or for new students they'll be fluent in English and proficient in a 2nd language by graduation).

But the whole vision and idea and birth of the effort that is producing DCI is as a way for bilingual students in 3 languages in DC (currently from 5 schools) to be able to continue their language learning, plus acquire another language, while still in a quality learning environment on all core subjects.  If it is pulled off it will be the 1st such school in the country and it is providing a middle and high school alternative to thousands of DC kids.  Who, have we mentioned, live all over the District and got into their feeder school or into DCI through a random public lottery.

You, PP, are free to dislike the whole vision, but since you didn't say you are opposed to the vision and have said clearly that you're only opposed because it will be so hard to get in if you're not at a feeder, then you need to understand that the school wouldn't exist at all if it was just a new middle or high school with no relationship to the elementary schools that created it.  It wouldn't be able to accomplish the educational goals it was designed to produce.  DCI isn't DCI if all students start learning their 2nd language in 6th grade.[/quote]

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