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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Washington Liberty kids have to apply to get into their IB Program. It’s certainly not IB for All like DCI. And certainly the demographics of the IB kids at WL are not close to the same as the DCI kids.[/quote]
Not really. Any Washington-Liberty student with a B average freshman and sophomore year can pursue IBD junior and senior year. W-L does not offer a test-in IBD program like Richard Montgomery in Rockville and some of the Fairfax IBD programs. The demographics of Washington-Liberty are similar to the demographics in several of the DCI feeders, particularly YY.[/quote]

Well that is still applying and self selecting kids.  No DCI demographics isn’t like WL.  Some kids at YY don’t continue to DCI and their demographics get diluted with all the other schools who feed into DCI in addition to taking new kids in 9th.[/quote]

Come on, the demographics get diluted mainly because DCI refuses to track academically in middle school, other than for math and languages. Arlington offers low-key GT programming in middle school and stronger admins than DCI does, not just more favorable demographics. DCI's system just doesn't support IB Diploma-worthy high school academics for all that many students.

If DCI would only stop tossing YY graduates etc. who work at or above grade level into humanities and science classes with kids who work behind grade level, they'd keep more of the stronger feeder students.  Admins don't seem to give a hoot that they lose around half of these kids to programs offering more rigor, and better discipline, BASIS, Latin, privates, the burbs. It's a vicious circle that needs political attention.[/quote]

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