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[quote=Anonymous]So much melodrama. DCI does have its selling points and successes, but you're maladroitly glossing over egregious deficiencies.

DCI's MS insists on lumping kids who work 1,2 even 3 years ahead of grade level in a particular subject, be it science, English or social studies, into the same classes as many kids who work far behind grade level. Rigor for advanced students just doesn't tend to emerge from this calculus.  Although Deal, Latin and BASIS do the same thing, other than for math, unlike DCI, they have the demographics to make the set up work pretty well. BASIS alone doesn't socially promote, meaning that, by 8th grade, students who can't handle the curriculum are generally gone.

You blame "demographics" for the dearth of native speakers at DCI, presumably on the Chinese and French tracks, but what about policies?  Nothing comes home from DCI for family consumption in Chinese or French, and senior admins normally don't speak target languages, like at YY and Stokes. Also, no dialect transition support from Chinese dialects or Haitian creoles to Mandarin and French is provided, the norm in dual-immersion Chinese and French programs around the country.  This approach alienates DC native speakers who might enroll.  It also turns off parents who might pick DCI over serious partial immersion offered in the burbs and certain privates.

Most troubling, DCI's leadership, mostly furnished by YY, is known to be tone deaf, while Hardy's is known to be responsive.  That's a key reason that Hardy is doing well attracting and retaining in-boundary families.
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