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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a fair point that Walls, Wilson and Banneker were never struggling AP HS programs. DCI could also have started out strong.[/quote]

Walls and Banneker are test in schools that self select.  BTW the average pass points at DCI in the IB diploma is just as good as Banneker.

You really don’t know the history of Wilson at all.  It wasn’t always a higher performing school.[/quote]

I know the history of Wilson. The school struggled until Dunbar, the jewel in the DCPS crown until the early 1980s, fell on hard times as the city pushed to desegregate neighborhood schools. This led to a big influx of strong black students into Wilson in just a few years.

DCI could easily offer more test-in classes within the school, and stop socially promoting. They're happy to support acceleration in middle school math, and that's about it  DCI's "advanced" language classes just aren't very advanced.

BASIS doesn't socially promote, the key to their success.[/quote]

[b]And yet, Basis college acceptances are not any better than DCI’s  [/b][/quote]

Come on, BASIS' college acceptances are better, particularly for UMC students.  BASIS got two into MIT in 2019 and another 2 in 2020.  This year, they have on into Harvard, one into Yale.

How many into MIT and Harvard from DCI? [/quote]

Not sure, maybe none. But one DCI grad is going to Yale this year. Impressive for first year!

But I do agree with the criticisms of the lack of tracking. My kid was reading the same in sixth grade English as he did in fifth grade at his feeder. And he said math was boring. [/quote]

Two of DCI 2025 going to Yale, and I think both turned down other Ivys.  But so what.  Most kids won't get into those schools and it shouldn't be the only thing that matters.[/quote]

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