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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Again, goodbye and good riddance[/quote]

You're no credit to the DCI community if you don't give a darn if their Diploma candidates can score 6s and 7s on IBD exams.

I scored to 6s and 7s as a teen because I was pushed hard academically at my high school, and prepped to know IBD exam formats. I attended an Ivy on a full Pell Grant. Our IBD program had a pass rate of at least 75%, even though half the Diploma candidates were poor minorities on free lunch. The school was in NY, but it wasn't a test-in program like in NYC.[/quote]

Ok why don’t you tell us the name of your school then and how long it has been established.

You are tiring as the one repeatedly on here wanting all the kids to score 6s or 7s when the school is new and just graduated their 1st class last year.  Your standards are totally unrealistic.

In fact 75% of the schools that offer the IB diploma are private schools, the remaining 25% are public of which a number are test in.  With this data the averages IB diploma score is still just under 30.

So lots of private schools don’t even have kids scoring 6’s and 7’s.  Why don’t you get back to us after you pay 30-40k a year to send your kid to private school and IF your kid score 6 or 7’s.  The majority of kids at privates don’t. BTW, DCI has the best IB diploma kid in the whole mid-Atlantic this year so I’m sure this student scored high.

I may not have gotten the IB diploma and did AP in school instead, but I grew up poor and got a full 4 year academic scholarship.  I’m willing to give DCI a few years to see the trend and and how the program improves.

I’m not bitter like you because the school wasn’t rigorous enough for your kid from the start when they were developing not only a high school but also a middle school too.

But I do know that there there are very strong students like my DC at my Spanish immersion school coming up thru the feeders and many parents like us who are willing to give the school a try and chance.

You chose not to and can’t move on and are still bitter.

The other PP is right.  Good riddance.

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I am not the PP you're responding to but you speak for yourself when you say good riddance. I'm hearing the typical response of a parent who did AP work from you. Trust me, Diploma studies are a very different kettle of fish.

I'm not hearing bitter, I'm hearing IB Diploma experienced and unimpressed, listen-up folks (exit interview style).

Give DCI a try by all means but don't drown out calls to push admins to take the actual curriculum being followed more seriously (concur with PP above).

When you're nasty to PPs who know what they're talking about, you're the one who comes off as ridiculous.[/quote]

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