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[quote=Anonymous]^Not quite true.  BASIS and Deal already teach Mandarin, only at the introductory level for now, but they could almost certainly be persuaded to offer upper level Mandarin to YY graduates, and others who could handle it.  Both already offer upper level math.  We know several kids in the lower grades at both schools who speak decent Mandarin (like us) from having lived in China, and/or having grown up in Chinese immigrant families.

The sad thing about the Eastern IB Diploma Program is that it has the potential to attract some of the strongest 8th graders from across the city as a test-in program, like the one at Richard Montgomery HS in MoCo.  Yet DCPS has no plans to reinvent it as test-in program.

Richard Montgomery admits no more than 10% of applicants county wide - more than 1,000 apply for 100 highly coveted spots.  As a result, it boasts some of the highest IB pass rates and point totals (pass totals run from 24-45 points) in the IB Diploma universe of around 3,000 schools internationally.  It's one thing for a small number of Eastern students to scrape by with point totals in the 20s while MoCo kids score 40+ in droves.

Why can't DCPS simply copy what works in this Metro area?

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