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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sure, there are always details that make every single school different from every other.  But my understanding of BCC is that it is *quite* different.  Biggest difference of all:  BCC is not a "language-focused school", in that advanced language courses are offered but not required.  Is every feeder school to BCC an immersion school?  My understanding is no.

I'm sure BCC is an excellent school, and there is no such thing as "too many" great models of education.  But you either don't understand or know the details of DCI's foci and model, or it's overly important to you not to give the innovative model the credit it deserves for being unique.  And it IS unique, in several ways.

Whether DCI delivers on its great vision or not clearly remains to be seen.  But it's very inaccurate to propose that the differences in structure and foci between DCI and BCC are somehow trivial.[/quote]

Which is why I compared DCI to WIS and SSIMS, not to Westland.  BCC and DCI are also very different in that BCC is a high school, and at this point DCI is a middle school.

One of the biggest problems I see with charters in DC is that they aren't willing to look to and learn from schools outside of the narrow sphere of charters to learn from.  I work for a charter, I've sent my kids to charter, and it drives me around the twist when charters seek to "reinvent" something that someone else is already doing, as opposed to learning from other people's expertise.

What DCI is trying to do is wonderful.  I hope they succeed.  But if they're attitude is that they're the only school of their type, as opposed to connecting to and learning from other schools that are also IB, or multilingual, or blend multiple charters, then they'll have a much harder time becoming successful.

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