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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While providing the few with the opportunity to earn an IB diploma is great, DCPS cannot get a majority of their students at grade level in Reading in high school.

Perhaps the funding will be better spent on literacy in English rather than pushing their resources to the very few who can get an IB diploma.  Will love to know how many out of the 6 kids who tried for an IB diploma actually got one and also how much money Eastern spent to get the IB World school designation.

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Is it your position that DCPS should not offer IB to their students? Are you also one of the many posters that argue that DCPS need to offer more specialty programs to compete against charters?   [/quote]

If DCPS wants to offer IB, they should have some mechanism to deliver the program to students who can actually benefit from it not to a group of kids where the majority need remediation in English.

If DCPS thinks having an IB high school like Eastern will attract students who want IB from charters like DCI, they are dreaming.

The IB at Eastern sounds like a big budget suck and a waste of money.[/quote]

Hm, you still did not answer the questions. So DCPS should not offer IB in any of their comprehensive schools. It's your stance that specialty programs are for the charters. And DCPS should stick with the basics.  And the students in DCPS who want something beyond the basics are just SOL.  You sound like a shrill for more charters at the expense of the improvement of DCPS.

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A mom who pulled her kid from a DCI feeder school because mom was teaching all the requisite basics for future academic success at home.  And BTW, DCI has yet to receive its IB certification, or a graduating class. Therefore, you don't know how successful or how many students will actually graduate with an IB diploma, if and when the school receives its certification. [/quote]

They should offer it at a comprehensive high school that has a sizable cohort of kids who can actually benefit from the program.  It does not sound like Eastern will have even ten kids earning an IB diploma in a graduating class anytime soon. Does such a comprehensive high school exist in DC?

Generally, a program should be offered when there is demand for it to make it cost effective instead of providing a program and then waiting to see if anyone signs up for it.  Maybe instead of offering IB, Eastern would have been better off providing more AP courses.  DCPS seems to do everything backwards.

As for DCI, it seems to have a large cohort of kids who come from the PYP and MYP with the language background to feed into an IB diploma program.[/quote]

The only feeder school to DCI that is PYP or MYP is YY. That's one out of five schools. [b]And so far, YY has lost approximately 1/3 of its population from PK4 through 5th grade. [/b]I personally am aware that twelve kids that were in the third grade will not be in attendance in the fifth grade. And although I have no clue how many will continue into DCI after completion of YY 5th grade, several parents have articulated interest in private, Basis, and Brookland MS.  That does not bode well for your assumption that it's a large cohort of PYP and MYP former students.

It is my understanding that Eastern offers both AP and IB. DCPS need to start somewhere with IB. It makes since that it would be Eastern since Browne and Jefferson (both MYP) eventually feeds into Eastern. If Cap Hill parents continue to shun Eastern, hopefully it will become a great alternative to academically strong kids who want more than what Banneker offers. [/quote]

YY lost 1/3 of its population in pK4 to 5th grade?!?  Really.   :lol:

DCI only opened last year so it's not surprising that YY lost 1/3? (lost 100% of 6 graders) of it's population before DCI. [/quote]

DCI is two years of age. However, it is the first year that all the schools are on the same campus..  You are correct with the 1/3 , and the school  replaced those losses up to the second grade.  The kids who left last year in the third grade, and the kids leaving this year in the fourth grade were and are well aware of the existence  of DCI.   That did not stop their parents from pulling them. I would like to think and hope that DCI will be a good school in the future.  That will not stop the parents who choose elsewhere after the completion of the sixth grade.  But stop hyping it as if it is the best IB school in the city. It's not IB yet. And the above answer was in response to PP stating the  strength of kids matriculating from MYP schools. Only one of five of the combined schools is MYP.

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