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This thread is getting ridiculously drawn out.  If you think DCPS middle school, esp EOTP, is going to make any progress at all in the next 3-7 years, then stay at your IB DCPS school and feeder pattern.

If you think no chance whatsoever, then stay at your current charter to track to DCI.  Or try to lottery in at a feeder or DCI.  But this is getting more and more difficult so reality is that parents taking the long view are looking at ECE with taking feeder patterns in mind with their decision.

So if mom in the article if not happy at DCI, she can always send her kid to their neighborhood IB middle.  Done deal.

End of thread.

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So DC parents of teens who speak, read and write French, Mandarin and Spanish pretty well aren't legit stakeholders in our public schools?  They're peons awaiting their marching orders, happy to be pushed around for their tax dollars?

You know what else you can do, enroll at DCI and assert yourself by lobbying for change, as the mom who wrote the critical article effectively did. Parent leaders can organize to ask for help on improving DCI from city council members on the Committee on Ed.  They can even push to get certain council members on the Committee on Ed voted out (suburban PA organizations routinely do this).  For starters, they can advocate to ditch the disastrous Chromebooks.

If admins won't start to track for ELA, social studies or science, parents can start sending around notices inviting particular advanced students to pay-to-play private tutoring groups for advanced learners, with "scholarship" tuition for qualified poor kids.  They can organize their own language immersion camp carpools and scholarships.  Both pesky steps were taken within our school last year and they certainly got admins' attention/drew their ire.  Parents are also free to research and implement IB Diploma studies support options, like early test taking junior year and hiring IBD-savvy private college applications coaches (again, providing financial support to low SES kids who would benefit) to help with applications, and advertise them within the school community.

Frustrated parents don't always have to take DCI's lack of ambition to serve advanced learners sitting down.

Jeff decides when a thread ends, not you.[/quote]

Why don’t you replace DCI above with DCPS.........much more relevant to a ton more families [/quote]

Oh you mean all the families in DCPS language immersion programs EOTP feeding into Macfarland.......[/quote]

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