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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about students at the DCPS dual-language schools?  Can they lottery in at 9th grade?

What about those with home-language or test-verifiable proficiency in one of the DCI target language programs?   Can they get in?

I'm thinking of this because DC is at a DCPS bilingual program and we speak Spanish at home; I have no doubt DC would take to a school like this with ease, and Walter Reed is close to home.  Is there anything wrong with trying to go that route?[/quote]

The lottery will be open to all. It will be up to the parents to get additional help in a target language if they lottery for DCI and there child has no past experience. My DC is currently at Powell Dual Language School and we are hoping to lottery for DCI for 6th grade.  Charters aren't allowed to test-in applicants. I don't see why a parent would lottery is heir child doesn't have any past language experience. They will be doing their child a disservice. [/quote]

Where is it stated that there will be a lottery?  I thought the whole point of feeder schools was to have enough students to sustain the middle and high school, knowing there will be attrition.  How do you lottery in at 6th or 9th grade and still graduate fluently bilingual and with an IB degree if you can't test for language proficiency and you haven't been at an IB school before?[/quote]

From the DC PCSB website:

..."There are currently no dual language immersion public high schools in the District of Columbia, Pearson said. He also noted that DCI would be open to new applicants, who would not need language proficiency to gain admission. "

"Each school would enter into management contracts with DCI and would continue to
operate independently although managed cooperatively in one location in which expenses
would be shared based on the per pupil funding allocation of enrolled students.
Each student attending DCI would be enrolled in one of the four component schools of DCI, and
that school would be accountable for that student’s results. However this enrollment status
would be largely transparent to these students, as they would attend mostly the same
classes on the same facility and would identify as a student of DCI rather than of the
component school in which they enrolled."[/quote]

Wow, does anyone have an idea how this would work logistically/curricula-wise??  (Im sure those actually planning DCI know their plans, but since its just us talking here... ). It sounds almost like it'll basically be 2 different schools, one with rigorous academics in English and expanded beginner language options, and another where truly bi and tri-lingual kids are studying advanced languages as well as core classes (math science reading) in their 2nd language?  Thereby graduating good-to-great students who have been introduced to a 2nd Lang, as well as graduating good-to-great students fluent in 2 and proficient in a 3rd (and a few IB)?

That sounds SO confusing![/quote]

I am optimistic and my child attends one of the feeder schools, but I do question how this will work-- you are not alone.  My child is in 1st grade so I am not panicked, we have time and I will support DCI when appropriate or needed.[/quote]

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