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Well, you won't know until 2020 when the very first DCI class graduates, so I hope you're not holding your breath.[/quote]

No problem waiting. As a parent who earned the IB Diploma, taught in an IB World School, and bailed on YY, I can say with confidence that DCI scores are going to hit high SES families hard for many years. BASIS isn't pretending in the same way, they're meticulously building their AP success.  Their facilities are weak, but their planning prowess and work ethic merits a little respect. Washington Latin, too. Kids can't go on to score in the 30s and 40s on IB exams on the strength of DCI feeder and DCI academics unless perhaps parents supplement like mad for a lot of dough.[/quote]

[b]I truly don't think most high SES families currently enrolled at DCI care about the IB Diploma scores all that much. [/b]If they were the kinds of parents who did, they would not be in a start-up charter school to begin with; they would have bailed along the way for a more sure thing.

Now that may not be true for younger families whose students are in one of the feeder schools now. But the first few classes at any charter school are made up of people who are a little more risk tolerant. [b]That can certainly be said of the parents of the oldest students at BASIS now and the first 2-3 years of Washington Latin high school graduates. [/b]

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I bet you're right, but demographics change fast in the DC public ed universe. Hundreds of high SES parents of little kids are getting on the DCI train for a path to 12th, never mind if the middle and high school kids can really speak the languages being taught in the feeders.  Expectations seem much higher on the part of the early childhood and lower elementary grades crowd than the current DCI parents. Feeder and DCI admins would be smart to plan to manage expectations. [/quote]

Cmon - the first graduating class of Washington Latin went to school in six different locations.  We should all be thankful to those families who stuck with it.  It's  not until the class of 2021 that a graduating Latin class will have only spent time in its current location.  That's a lot of families who made do and figured it out so that now all the rest of us can benefit (that is those who get in - and no, we're not one of the lucky ones).  There is no way the school in its early years is the same as the school now.

Let's cut some of the current DCI families a break and show them some gratitude and compassion - because of them, future students will have a stronger school to go to - will it be as strong as you like?  Maybe not, but without them, there's no chance.  This is DCI's 3rd year.  The principal has shown remarkable leadership in the face of the tragic student death, and I'm looking forward to seeing how the school unfolds.[/quote]

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