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Which is why I compared DCI to WIS and SSIMS, not to Westland.  BCC and DCI are also very different in that BCC is a high school, and at this point DCI is a middle school.

One of the biggest problems I see with charters in DC is that they aren't willing to look to and learn from schools outside of the narrow sphere of charters to learn from.  I work for a charter, I've sent my kids to charter, and it drives me around the twist when charters seek to "reinvent" something that someone else is already doing, as opposed to learning from other people's expertise.

What DCI is trying to do is wonderful.  I hope they succeed.  But if they're attitude is that they're the only school of their type, as opposed to connecting to and learning from other schools that are also IB, or multilingual, or blend multiple charters, then they'll have a much harder time becoming successful.

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I have 2 questions after reading your post:

1) What exactly is it that you think DCI needs to learn and from which other schools?  My understanding is that the main founders have spent immense amounts if time studying all sorts of schools.  What specifically do you think DCI needs to learn and from which other schools?

2) what do you think DCI is "reinventing" unnecessarily?  You say it makes you crazy, but you give absolutely no examples of specific things they're doing that is repetitive or unnecessary.

I understand your general sentiments, but please explain how they apply to DCI since you've posted them here.[/quote]

I'm the poster asking the last 2 questions.  I'll assume by your silence that, indeed, despite your general frustration with charters (the one you work at?) not learning from other schools as much as you think they could, you can't give examples of how this is a problem for DCI.  From what I understand there has been such a high level of examination of other schools, plus let's face it, this is a collaboration between 5 different schools with different cultures, so there is a LOT of cross-fertilization and trying to take the best practices from all over the place.  Which seems both exciting and scary.

Also was really curious what "reinventing" you felt DCI was doing, given that there is no other language-focused IB middle and high school in DC trying to pull off what they're trying to pull off.  Was wondering what mistakes or overkill you thought DCI was committing because it was hard to think of what it would be.   Not that they haven't made mistakes or won't make more - everyone starting something like this makes mistakes, some of them big!  But your comments were puzzling when applied to DCI - I guess you don't really have specific reasons to apply the concerns about reinventing and not learning from other schools to DCI?[/quote]

Not PP, but FYI, you are coming across as a bit defensive/insecure about DCI. 
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