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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Eastern's IBD pass rate average points totals have been a little lower than Banneker's to date, but they're only about to graduate their third class of IBD students, with a dozen students in a cohort.

Enough of this PC silliness. Controlling for race and class alone doesn't get you a high-performing school. In an urban center, bona fide selective admissions combined with decent facilities, strong teaching and leadership,and a diverse student body (with many high SES families of all races involved) gets you a high-performing school.

Yes, DCI will be offering International Baccalaureate Diploma studies, but only IBD lite. IBD studies won't be required at DCI, so they won't have a critical mass of students to offer many Higher Level (1-2 years past AP) classes. Reading the tea leaves,  I predict that their pass total will be in the high 20s for the first five years or so they graduate students.  If you're shooting for the stars in college admissions (Ivies, Little Ivies, Georgetown, Stanford, military academies, Duke etc.) and you're white or Asian, you're going to need a points total of 40+. [/quote]

I'm the PP who's years away. Thank you for posting and explaining the stats. I'm familiar with the AP system from my own education but am learning about IB and watching closely what happens with the various local programs. 
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The other thing to consider is that Eastern and Banneker offer both AP and IB courses.

DCI, on the other hand, will only offer IB. [/quote]

The problem definitely isn't that DCI will only offer IB courses, it's that their IB courses are unlikely to be terribly rigorous (because so many of their students aren't really "full" IBD material).  If a Hill kid can score 6s and 7s on IBD exams at either the Standard or Higher Levels, 4s and 5s on corresponding APs come easily.  Go visit one of the MoCo of Fairfax IBD programs and chat with their in-house IB Coordinator if you want to learn more.  These programs run IBD open houses.[/quote]

Just curious- are they not really "full IBD Material" because they're Hispanic?  Or are you disgusted by the fact that DCI has black kids?

I am absolutely for a Hill middle school and a rigorous test-in high school, but your statement is flat out racist. The DCI feeders are very strong (stronger than many Hill schools in fact), and since you dismissed most of them as "not IDB material" based on nothing... You're really just a revolting racist.

- Hispanic IB diploma holder who probably would have been dismissed by racist trash like PP, but actually scored only 6s and 7s. [/quote]

Hello Hispanic IBD holder, I'm not white. Look at DCI's PARCC scores, in the aggregate and by sub-bgroup. Then visit any of the MoCo elementary immersion "feeder" schools sending kids on to Richard Montgomery (which boasts one of the highest IBD average points totals in the world, and is loaded with high-scoring Hispanics). Compare the DCI feeder and DCI itself to the MoCo programs. Take my point without the vitriol. [/quote]

No, your point is still racist. Just because you're Asian (yes I know who you are now), doesn't allow you to dismiss students based on their race.

Furthermore I would not say Montgomery county isn't doing its part when it comes to Hispanics. They themselves came to this conclusion last year.  I understand that you're irritated that Yu Ying doesn't take mandarin speakers (I get it!), but that's not something that's Yu Ying or DCIs fault. [/quote]

Granted, but you're painting with too broad a brush. The low-income Hispanic students I attended Boston Latin, and my Ivy, with were impressive and I know a little bit about racism (having been called "chink" hundreds of times as a kid).  If cities bother to identify academically advanced minority kids young to get them into GT programs, then ensure they have access to free, unlimited test prep, they can be well represented in MS and HS test-in magnet programs. As has been pointed out, Chicago's application system for test-in magnets is superior to MoCo's. Disagree that YY and the other DCI feeders aren't to blame for the lack of native speakers (which negatively impacts their IBD program results later). I've done research on the issue - the DCPC Board seems open to considering letting native speakers test in to replace upper grades drop-outs, tweaking their LEA arrangements, but the feeder schools have not teamed up to ask for this.   [/quote]

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