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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And of course IB status, and on-track for the gorgeous facility at Walter Reed.  (How did that happen, Delano Hall looks like a private school, but then these are the same minds that made Yu Ying happen).

Well done!  Bravo!

THE international school for DC is arriving.

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I'm not sure that Delano Hall looks like a private school.  However, with a 56% FARMS rate, no one will mistake DCI for WIS.[/quote]

Delano Hall definitely looks like a private school, a WIS director is on the board of DCI, and there's no Chinese track at WIS.  So, win, win, win![/quote]

A WIS director on the board?  Lol--DCI will need way more than that type of assistance.  Actually, WIS students can create their own Chinese track (or Italian, Dutch, German etc., track via private, on site tuturial; as well as through electives).  Due to the fact that WIS cherry-picks its student body (which is affluent and truly international), it only offers the IB diploma--not the vocational track certificates.  I'm also willing to bet that WIS' IB scores will always leave DCI's scores in the dust.  That's because it is a real private school--not a cheap knockoff.[/quote]

I think you meant to say FREE knockoff![/quote]

If you could afford WIS, you wouldn't have to settle for the FREE knockoff.  You would be able to enjoy the REAL thing.  Difference #101 between WIS and DCI.  However, DCI is better than nothing I suppose...[/quote]

I've looked into WIS and it is nothing to brag about. There are better private schools in DC. DCI is its own thing and that's a positive in my book. [/quote]

You sound disconnected from reality.  I'm not a WIS parent, but I know several WIS families.  It's the best school in the DC Metro area for families interested in language immersion.  Which private schools in this area graduate students with iB diplomas (including the bilingual IB diploma) with consistently higher scores?  I'll wait.  If you think WIS isn't anything to brag about, then DCI families should be downright ashamed.  DCI will never produce students like WIS.  Since it's free, so no one really expects much.[/quote]

This is how little you know about WIS.  It is not the best immersion school in the area at all. There are far better options, you just don't know of them because you have not done the research!   Laughable. By the way if you do decide to look for better immersion schools they definitely exist- the German school, Rochabeau, that Spanish immersion school in Potomac, etc. Those are better options even if they don't offer the IB Diploma (they offer other things). As a bonus, they are way less litigious than WIS.

Anyway, WIS is a good school for sure, but it is not the best school nor the best immersion school in the DC area whatsoever. It's fine, but I do not think it is worth duplicating in DCI at all.[/quote]

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