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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]YY has emerged with a study body that's not even 10% FARMs. There are several schools in Upper NW (Eaton, Stoddert, Hearst) with higher percentages of poor minority kids.

In 2017, comparisons between YY and government schools in affluent swathes of Western Europe, along with Singapore, are on the mark.

It's time to get more serious about immersion language studies in DC public, or the DCI IB Diploma program will emerge as just another Banneker or Eastern, programs barely scraping by with average pass point totals in the 20s. IB World Schools fed by partial immersion MS programs can't do the Diploma right without offering Higher Level language studies (which emphasize speaking skills).[/quote]

Oh, FFS. Are you saying that Yu Ying should be as good as schools in Singapore based on SES? Are you insane? Singapore has the highest student achievement IN THE WORLD, and you are suggesting that one urban public charter school with a tiny native population, not even supported by a large urban school district, should be achieving at the same levels? Come on. I don't even think the homogeneous and wealthy JKLM schools are even close to Singapore.

I wonder how all of those schools are doing at teaching Asian students English, or teaching Swiss students Mandarin, which would be a fairer comparison.
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