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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Great! Goodbye and good riddance!!!
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Good-bye, good riddance? No way. Speak for yourself. I want this kind of parent to come to DCI and to stay to the bitter end.

This type of parent would put pressure on lazy ass admins to aim for high diploma subject exam scores for my tax dollars. As far as I can tell, this isn't happening. The current parents are way too laid back.

This spring, when I asked admins if juniors and seniors were prepping using diploma past exams for HL languages, Chem, Math Bio etc. they informed me that this "wasn't necessary." Come on, prepping off past exams is common practice in diploma programs. When I asked if students used Pearson and Oxford HL IBD study exam guides to prep for exams, again, "just not necessary."

Pretty clearly, DCI admins don't give a darn if students can score 6s and 7s on exams or build toward point totals in the 30s or 40s.

We care and we're not alone.[/quote]

They’ve been pretty clear that their goal is exposure to the IB curriculum and not actual passing and getting the diploma. I think this is just a way to make excuses for poor performance and as a way to provide cover for their “IB for all” method.[/quote]

Wait their goal is exposure not passing? That seems like setting really low expectations for students.  I wouldn’t send my kid to a school who said that about IB or AP classes.  The message to me is ‘we aren’t actually going to teach the curriculum we are supposed to’.  How absurd![/quote]

No, DCI has never said that its goal is merely exposure.  Obviously the best DCI  students are going to have scores that rival/surpass any fancy private school (whether they've been encouraged to "prep" according to PP's model or not).  The average student will likely pass with an average score.  The lowest performing students (who wouldn't have access to IB program at most schools) should do well enough to earn a DC diploma but not necessarily and IB diploma.  However, for those students, DCI believes that the IB education will still be beneficial as it prepares them better for college and career options than the non-IB route offered such students in other schools.   Whoever keeps harping on DCI's goals and results seems to be willfully mischaracterizing DCI and the limited IB results to date (one tiny inaugural class).  Please listen to what the school itself and current parents have to say about the diploma program, and look for the results for the class of 2021 and beyond, rather than listening to the people who bailed in 6th grade and now not only want to justify their own decisions but convince others to follow them.  Of course, that's just how it appears to me, a happy DCI HS parent.[/quote]

THIS x 1000.   Nailed it on the head PP.[/quote]

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