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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Feeder parents don't want to deal with DCI's mediocrity. They don't want to give up on a city life, so cling to a vision of high-demand excellence by the time their child has reached 6th grade. [/quote]

I do n't t hink this is exactly it. I think they put a LOT of faith in the well-regarded IB curriculum, and trust that it will ensure a quality education.

Which is a little funny since most of the higher SES feeder and DCI parents would never consider sending their kids to Eliot-Hine or Eastern HS, both which offer the IB curriculum. Banneker does too, but white people avoid it for different reasons.

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What do most of these parents really know about the "well-regarded curriculum."  The IB curriculum is only as good as the teaching and the preparation of the cohort of students pursuing the Diploma. Overall, DCI students' communication skills in target languages and writing skills in English seem likely to fall short.  A program just can't do IB Diploma on good form with one-way immersion in its elementary school feeders (the case with French, Spanish and too much of the Spanish) unless families supplement extensively with bona fide immersion experiences.

Those of us who earned the IB Diploma with respectable pass point totals (in the mid 30s to low 40s) have our real doubts about the faith of the uninitiated in the curriculum itself.[/quote]

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