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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whatever. It isn't difficult to scrape by with the IBD curriculum. I had lazy high school friends who coasted through diploma studies, barely clearing the 24 points bar.  They probably could have scored 10 points higher with effort.

Some of us want our kids to head off to college fluent in a second language, not just DC public "Seal of Bilingualism" fluent, or "proficient." Some of us are shooting for HL languages and science scores of 6-7.

I'm not wild about the idea of supplementing like mad to get my kid where he could go in strong IBD program. We're not poor, not minorities, can't afford pricey colleges, no breaks in college admissions or fi aid for us.

DCI's high school still looks dicey for the likes of us.
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What's your backup plan then? Lottery for Basis? Walls? Move to the suburbs?  Would any of those achieve your goal of fluency in a second language?

I ask as the parent of a kid in lower elementary at a feeder, reading this thread, and second guessing all our life decisions.  We definitely can't afford private, aren't in bounds for Wilson, so DCI may still be our best option.

(In fairness, we may be part of the problem.  I look at the dual language in elementary as a nice-to-have enrichment and do not supplement the language outside of school.)[/quote]

We're looking at school-within-a-school IBD programs in MoCo and NoVa. We may try for fi aid at a private offering IBD, British International School, Our Lady of Good Counsel etc.

Our kids are close to fully bilingual. We turned down a DCI spot.

We don't particularly care about diversity in a program. We just want high-performing IBD, where the top students already score in the 40s, not the 20s.[/quote]

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