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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not buying it, not for DCI's growing UMC student cohort. Most IBD students attend US public schools, vs. small private schools in this country or abroad.

I used to work as an administrator at Richard Montgomery HS in Rockville. Most of RM's IBD students come in from MoCo's dual-immersion language programs. MoCo's immersion programs maintain lotteries for native speakers, like Oyster-Adams does, and high standards for speaking. RM maintains these standards partly by pushing families to enroll in summer immersion language programs, with generous subsidies for low SES families. RM's IBD points total has long been in the high 30s, the highest not only in this Metro area but the country. At RM, admins and counselors encourage IBD students to double up on AP and IB subject exams with significant content overlap, particularly language exams. They do this so that kids can apply to college senior year equipped with a number of standardized test subject scores, given that 4-6 IBD exams are taken at the end of senior year.

By contrast, DCI doesn't encourage HS students to take AP exams, or even to have kids take 1-2 IBD exams junior year (permitted by Geneva IBD HQ for more than a decade).  These practices hurt UMC applicants aiming high in college admissions. DCI also doesn't bother to support summer immersion and w[b]on't permit the most advanced STEM students to study math more than one year ahead of grade level[/b].  I learned all this when considering taking a spot at DCI for my 6th grader.

DCI could still "take all" while providing far more challenge and support for top performers. Fact is, they've already got the cohort of high-performing students to see IBD points totals in the high 30s and 40s. RM HS also takes all, but doesn't run its IBD program as IB for all. You can stay mired in relativism in your thinking about how DCI operates, or you can see the potential for far more ambition on the part of the DC ed powers backing the program, DCI admins and, indeed, families of UMC high performers.[/quote]

My children attend DCI and I know for a fact that this is not true.  There aren't many students that are studying math more than one year above grade level, but it is allowed and does happen. Perhaps it has been a number of years that you considered applying and the school continues to evolve as it matures.  [/quote]

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