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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]New executive director last year and new middle school principal this year. There has been lots of staff turnover. The new leadership is focused on making it more rigorous and working to improved instruction so that all kids are engaged. [/quote]

Improve instruction, so that all the kids are engaged. Sounds fabulous.

So why is my rising 8th grader going to be in social studies, English and science classes with many classmates who work far behind grade level? Why was her 6th and 7th grade math work far too easy? Why are so many of the "advanced" French track students hardly able to speak French after coming up through Stokes?

The rigor needs to start in the feeders, particularly for English, math and speaking target languages. It doesn't. The rigor needs to come from honors middle school social studies, English and science classes. It doesn't. The rigor needs to come from a big push for language immersion studies in the middle school and high school summers, like the Concordia camps. It doesn't. The rigor needs to come from the high school students clearing reasonable prerequisite hurdles to access IB Diploma classes junior and senior year. It doesn't. The rigor needs to come from DCI aiming for average IBD scores in the high 30s. It doesn't.

Please tell us something we didn't know.

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