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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Future DCI parent here! If the haters are coming out the school must be good! So excited for it and the kids! See you soon when my kid starts. He's in a Spanish immersion feeder now, but is fluent in French, so I'm hoping he can take some courses in French to get a context away from home. No where else in the country would this be even a remote possibility.[/quote]

Silver Spring International, and Washington International are both schools that have both French and Spanish immersions options at the middle school level, and are in this metro area.  I'm sure there are many such schools around the country.

I think DCI is a great thing, and I hope it succeeds but it's not that rare of a model. [/quote]

I didn't realize they combined five other charter schools.[/quote]

NP, I also didn't realize those other 2 schools expect every student who goes K-12 to graduate fluent in 2 languages (English and first immersion language) PLUS proficient in a 3rd language.

It's true, there is a lot of hype around DCI that may be a bit over-excited, but PP saying "it's not that rare a model", please enlighten us where 5 bilingual charters representing 3 immersion languages collaborated to form an IB, language and "world citizen"-focused middle and high school where K-12 kids are expected to learn 3 languages?  If it's not rare, name even 2 (even 1!) other similar models in the US.[/quote]

The PP said that what was unique was a middle school where a child who had done immersion classes in Spanish might have the possibility of taking high level classes in French.  I named two other schools, that offer Spanish immersion, and French immersion and the opportunity to take a third language.  At least one of them (WIS) is IB, and requires the third language for kids who enter middle school proficient from their elementary school.

If you are going to say that your idea of a "unique model" is one that's exactly the same, then we could say that about every school.  Nitpicking that it has to be 5, not 4 or 6 charter programs, not public school programs, that feed into the school to be comparable is absurd.

My kid attends BCC, an IB school to which students from Spanish Immersion feed (via Rock Creek Forest/Westland).  Kids at BCC who came from Spanish Immersion can absolutely graduate with an IB diploma, fluent in Spanish and English and having studied a third language to the IB HL level (Chinese or French, they also offer Arabic at SL).  I didn't mention it, because they don't have a French immersion program that feeds into it.  [/quote]

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