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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You bleeding hearts can't see the forest for the trees here.

[b]Nobody's attacking the first DCI graduates on this thread. [/b]What concerns parents like me is that the strongest 4th grade students at our feeder, and most of the other feeders apparently, are mostly jumping ship before 6th grade at DCI.  The arrangement just doesn't bode well for the development of the International Baccalaureate Diploma program there.  Why can't DCI send graduates to elite colleges, starting next year?  They can't because they haven't been aiming high from the get go (come on, no real academic tracking in middle school).

In a nutshell, it sucks when you've been knocking yourself out to ensure that your kid's language skills are decent for 6 or 7 years, only to find that your only good middle school option in the DC public system for math, ELA, social studies etc. is probably BASIS.  That program doesn't even teach foreign languages before 7th grade, and then only at the beginning level.

DCI admins are letting us down, period. [/quote]

There are several posts here that are doing just that, calling them "weak graduating cohorts" etc. and diminishing their accomplishments.  It comes off as just really petty and mean-spirited, and doesn't really engender sympathy to your cause (native speaker lotteries).[/quote]

NP. Give us a break. Graduating from a public HS to enroll in community college is hardly the worst outcome for a low-income minority student in a jurisdiction where around 60% of high school-age students fail to graduate. But it's not too hot coming out of a supposedly high-powered International Baccalaureate Diploma program. My ire is reserved for the DCPCS Board, the city council members, the last several DC mayors, the DCI Board, and the boards of the feeder schools.

We were promised a rigorous PreK-12th grade education in the DCI pyramid that we aren't getting. I don't have a cause: I have a plan to ensure that my bright children have a shot at attending elite colleges. Avoiding DCI seems imperative, not how I was thinking when we started in a feeder six or seven years ago.[/quote]

Anyone who thought DCI was going to be a “high powered” IB school hasn’t paid attention. It is IB for ALL has high percentage of at-risk kids; and is running a career track as well as the diploma track. It is not measuring itself against your benchmarks.

It isn’t Richard Montgomery (a test-in magnet) or WIS (a private) and isn’t trying to be.

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You’re misinformed about career programme. It’s still supposed to be rigorous. Now whether or not it is at DCI is a different story.[/quote]

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