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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s not as tangential as you might think. Much of the strength of DCI depends upon buy-in from the families at the feeder schools. Many of the top students at the feeder schools peel off at 5th grade for BASIS and the Latins rather than stay for 5th and proceed to DCI.  This has two important consequences: many excellent students don’t end up at DCI and the feeder schools which backfill and allow new students at 5th grade end up feeding in students to DCI with much less language experience, further lowering the chances of a strong cohort of top students.  If DCI had more rigorous academics (outside foreign language study) it would be more appealing for top students to stay at their feeder and feed into there.  
How many top Oyster students peel off at 5th grade?  I’m guessing not many and even if it does lose people, the proficiency test to enter Oyster (which is absent from the charter immersion schools) ensure that students are merely new to the school but not new to the foreign language.[/quote]

No, the families who peel off are not serious about the language, never were.  They just wanted to get out of their poorly performing IB schools.  This mostly applies to YY.  Kids also leave are those who struggle with the language in the Spanish track.  We knew a few friends of friends that left because of this.

The feeder schools don’t have a lot of spots in the upper grades.  It’s easy to see this in the data.  The few Spanish spots that open get filled by families in DCPS bilingual schools.

Lastly, it doesn’t matter if you are at level 101 in the language or advanced because DCI tracks for languages and it’s the advance kids who go on to do the IB diploma.

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I think you agree with PP, they are not serious about the language, but they are not serious about math, ELA, science…and that is why they leave.[/quote]

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