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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And yet, despite only taking families who enter a lottery, and having all the advantages you mentioned, and an easier time kicking kids out, the charter schools you mentioned aren't that different in terms of test scores.

White kids do the best at SH, then DCI, then Latin.

Black kids do the best in DCI, then Latin, then SH.

Latino it's SH, Latin, DCI.

At risk it's SH and DCI, with Latin worse.

In all of these, the differences are somewhat negligible. Clearly if you want language immersion DCI makes sense and if you want to avoid Eastern and don't think your kid will make it into a selective DCPS it feels good to be done through 12th grade with Latin (though in that scenario does your kid really need advanced middle school classes?). But test score wise, there's really no argument that your kid will have a significantly stronger middle school cohort at DCI or Latin than SH. Richer? Whiter? yeah.[b] But academically pretty similar.[/b][/quote]

Hobson and BASIS aren't actually similar academically.  Latin maybe, BASIS, no.  BASIS offers far more challenging middle school math than DCPS to students who can handle it, and far more science rigor to all students.  I sat in on a Hobson 6th grade science class, where I observed that a good many of the students couldn't read or comprehend simple instructions to conduct an experiment.  Not the case at BASIS in science classes, far from it.  Science isn't, er, tested on the PARCC.

The only language "immersion" at DCI is for Spanish.  Without native speakers of French or Chinese, only one-way immersion (students learn the language only from teachers).  What a joke.  
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