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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think it’s about “low expectations” I think it’s about reality.  Many many kids in DC, including those at DCI are below grade level. The problem is parents can’t believe it because the test scores are their achool arwmatill better compared to other DC schools. But most of these kids wouldn’t cut it in Arlington gifted classrooms. DCI, like everybschool, is teaching to middle/bottom of the cohort.[/quote]

OK, but DCI could track for a lot more than math and language, like some of other DC public middle schools.
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Yes and with so many kids at grade level and above, [b]it’s probably going to be just a matter of time in my opinion.  [/b]

I find it hilarious that all the people on here ( with new school/program, new curriculum, new administration, new teachers who might not all have experience with IB etc..] expect everyone to know exactly everything they are doing, have rigor to challenge all students, be able to have students not even at grade level get the IB diploma, and on and on.

Welcome to DCUM!

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Don't hold your breath, PP.  Some of us lobbied for over a decade to get honors humanities and science classes at Stuart Hobson.[/quote]

That’s because SH did not have a high cohort of grade level or above kids for a long, long time....... unlike DCI.

It’s also because you can make changes, especially with curriculum, much faster at a charter and why their curriculum is much more progressive than DCPS schools.  We all also know how huge, terrible, and inefficient the bureaucracy is especially in DCPS.  A system that only cares about narrowing the achievement gap and gives families messages that their grade level or above kid doesn’t need anything and will be fine.....and people are surprised when families bail DCPS for charters.

There is only so much you can do at the local school level.  When SH numbers show that the at risk kids improvement goes down or you develop a school within a school like Wilson, don’t be surprised that they will try to convert it to honors for all.....just like Wilson.[/quote]

At that time, DCPS will just fire or not renew the contract of the principal at SH and put in one that is a puppet for DCPS leadership.

In fact, lets do it just like the JO Wilson drama where a great principal was fired or forced to resign, whichever, when DCPS did nothing to address his concerns regarding certain teachers who used force on students.  And which apparently one of the teachers was not let go and thru the grapevine is now at SH, the feeder for JO.  [/quote]

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