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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you find the constant device usage a problem?  I heard it has gotten a bit better but I still hear stories from the neighbor kids at DCI about kids in their class playing games all day.  I worry about this for my kid with ADHD. I don't think it will be good for her.[/quote]

Not pp, but yes. We hear from admin that they are trying to incorporate more offline learning, but it's not happening fast enough for my ADHD child, at least not so far into the first year of middle school. Who knows if the new principal will feel the same.

The school can lock down the student's Chromebook if families request it to a more extreme setting than the default. This can help but may also make it hard for the student to access certain sites that teachers use, such as ones with embedded videos.

From asking about computers when touring other schools, this problem is not unique to DCI so we will stay for 7th.[/quote]

Meant to add when I asked this question of other middle school families I knew, some with older kids said Latin used to be much less computer focused pre-covid but now it didn't sound all that different from DCI.[/quote]

DCI is much more screen focused than Stuart Hobson (kids at both). Friends at Latin describe it as having less screens than SH, so I’d be very surprised if Latin and DCI were equivalent in this respect.[/quote]

Kids at Latin aren’t watching TV and playing video games at school like some kids at DCI. It is teacher dependent but in general so much screen time. 
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Kids at dci aren’t watching tv. Maybe in remedial classes?  But not true for my kids or anyone we know. [/quote]

Or maybe your middle school kid doesn’t tell you? It’s so secret that DCI kids spend tons of time on screens. On our lids shadow day at DCI tons of kids were watching Tv and playing non educational games. [/quote]

That’s not been our experience.  What I do know is the kids who were behind and struggling at our feeder were thrilled with the much easier curriculum at Latin. Finally they didn’t have to struggle to learn languages at a high level.[b] Math and science is much easier at Latin too. [/b]It’s a great place for an average and below average kid. I do think dci drops the ball on average/struggling kids and they’d be better off at a much easier school like Latin. But whatever works for your kids of course. [/quote]

How is this possible when the Latin Science CAPE scores are SO MUCH higher than DCI? More than 50 percent profieciency versus less than 10 percent? Latin is second only to BASIS on science education. 
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Ignore her. She posts this crap constantly, and about any school seen as better than DCI. Yesterday she was obsessively posting about how Schools Without Walls is only for mediocre students. [/quote]

She? Your misogyny is showing

People can have different opinions based on their own experiences. Calm down. Also for what it’s worth- not just one poster. I’ve agreed with this person. [/quote]

Oh look she is posting yet again while pretending to be a different person. [/quote]

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