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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]New DCI parent here --  We got into BASIS last year but chose to stay at our feeder school.

They sent a mail saying that they have a replacement. Someone already working at the school. 
The principal who resigned seemed to be the only one who got what a "good school" should be doing with kids. Too bad she resigned.

DCI is not a bad school. It offers more than some private schools: languages, IB program (it's NOT skim milk and BS!), dedicated teachers, new building, beautiful grounds. Lack a bit on parent involvement though. 
Some kids are allowed to "speed up" (6th graders taking 8th grade math -- not very frequently allowed in other schools) and some are in remedial classes (many kids from non-English speaking families). So some families are going to find the school super nice ("we get a private school for free!") and some are going to be left behind..

The school's problem is that they don't have any real vision of where the school should be going.  A list of things that need correcting: silent detentions, no lunch on some days to cram more instruction, no recess any day except lunch break,  there were talks to put camera in bathrooms (not sure what happened to that),  there were rumors of no bathroom break  allowed (not sure if they stopped the practice),  volunteer parents to patrol the corridors, all internet sites blocked for all 6th and 7th graders because they had problems with some kids (how about punishing only the ones who are actually abusing their internet access??).

Another poster on this list called it "highly punitive". I could not agree more --- Honestly though [b]most parents seem to like it.[/b] 
 
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Thank you for the concrete feedback. As someone with young kids at a feeder, this is exactly the info that is helpful.[/quote]

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