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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Get a life.

Nobody argued that the weakest students at DCI shouldn't have access to challenging classes and great teachers. What was argued that these kids don't belong in the same classes as students who can handle work that's pitched multiple grade levels ahead of where the weakest students are. Stuart Hobson admins figured that one out a decade ago. They began tracking for English with the strong support of DCPS HQ, teachers and parents.

At least DCI tracks for math these days; they didn't used to.[/quote]

Oh come on.  Stuart Hobson doesn’t get a lot of buy in from the Capitol Hill folks and still don’t.  The majority of kids there are poor performing.  Scores are the worst.  They had tracking for a while but most Capitol Hill families still don’t send their kids there.  Their tracking is basically on grade level, nothing special.  You can say a school offers tracking or AP in name but it doesn’t mean it’s advanced level.

Either you don’t talk to the Capitol Hill folks or you are a SH booster.  [/quote]

I'm no SH booster, but I'm willing to give their admins credit for breaking ELA instruction into several levels: Advanced, Remedial and ELL.  DCI would do well to do the same.

You just don't get to IB Diploma points totals in 30s and 40s when the strongest humanities students are seldom challenged in MS humanities classes, not unless the families of high achievers supplement like mad.  
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