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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Different poster.  I think the point is, neither Sela nor DCI are open yet so you're stressing about inclusion in something before either school has even opened their doors and begun to teach.   There are a ton of details both schools need to attend to unrelated to each other.  So the fact that every single time DCI is mentioned someone comes on thread and brings up how perfect they think Sela is for DCI is really rubbing many people the wrong way.  Sela also mentions its inclusion in DCI  when recruiting for students more than any school ever should given that it  a) isn't even open yet;  b) does not have DCI in their charter; and c) has no commitment of inclusion from DCI right now.[/quote]

I think what rubs a lot of people the wrong way is:

1. It's pretty clear from this thread at least that the people posting about Sela(h) sic are parents at other schools, and not Sela(h) parents, and all they did was express their wish that Sela be part of DCI - and then a lot of people emptied out their livers on them (is it anti-semitic code as a PP suggested, as an AA mom, it certainly feels like irrational prejudice -which I am used to on DCUM), but I do think this bothers many many people, and this causes people to respond when someone bashes Sela(h); 
2. There is no evidence that Sela(h) mentions its inclusion in DCI when recruiting students - I have a coworker who is sending her daughter. She asked them at their information session about MS and they said they were focused on opening, and that their charter runs up to 5th grade currently, but that they intended to go up to MS, either as a stand-alone school, as part of DCI, or as part of a partnership of charter MS that doesn't exist yet - they did not say they were part of DCI and it's not on their website - I checked. 
3. the denigration that anyone who sends anything not bilious about Sela(h) is a booster or a troll.

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You are totally wrong about Sela not mentioning DCI.  There are 2 parents at my current PS going to Sela in the Fall and 2 more in my neighborhood who checked Sela out but are choosing not to go.  All four of them heard about DCI for the first time at Sela presentations (well, 3 and one heard at the Charter Expo).  How are 4 unrelated arenas hearing about DCI from Sela if Sela isn't talking about them.

There is indeed plenty of code on DCUM.  There are also plenty of people with vested interests in certain outcomes.  It's foolish to act as if everyone is only one or the other, there can be some who don't like Sela for prejudicial reasons, and some (like those totally over the Yu Ying mentions everywhere) who wish Sela well but really wish its advocates would hush up about DCI already.  Both are actually possible, shock and awe![/quote]

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