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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ditto. DCI admins talk to the talk, but I'm not seeing the rigor we're looking for in any area.

We're super busy with full-time jobs and don't have the time or energy to supplement extensively. DCI is too far from our Cap Hill home to make the commute worth it. Looking Stuart Hobson (we're IB).[/quote]

So you aren't there but know there isn't rigor? How. And the school not being convenient to your house isn't really anything about the school.[/quote]

We've done our due diligence on rigor. We've not only attended open houses, we've sat in on several "advanced" middle school classes with the permission of admins. We've asked neighbors' children in these classes to show us all sorts of homework assignments, dug into test score data, and talked to admins. We've even volunteered at school events celebrating our culture/language (we speak the language well, if not completely fluently) where we've spoke to a bunch of the most advanced 8th and 9th grade students studying the language.

Sorry, we're not seeing like the rigor we're looking for. Not worth the long commute. Stuart Hobson looks more promising, with its honor classes. The school is across the street from our place. Enroll there and the parent with the most flexibility in their schedule buys time to tutor our children in the afternoons.  Good luck to the rest of you.[/quote]
You didn’t answer my high school question. I appreciate that you’re doing what’s best for your family so I’m sure you have thought about high school. [/quote]

Hoping for SWW, fi aid at a private.  Last resort, move to Arlington for higher octane IB Diploma program than DCI at Washington Lee for 5 years, then return to DC as empty nesters.[/quote]

DP.  [b]This approach is interesting to me because it doesn't seem to place much of a priority on continuity of friendships/community.[/b]  We're also IB for Stuart-Hobson and we opted for DCI because continuity of friendships/community was one of our priorities.  In addition, we've been happy with the growth we've seen in our kid's PARCC scores and MAP scores (amongst many other reasons we're happy with DCI).  We also have friends that are at Stuart-Hobson and are happy with their kid's education.  Just like there are feeder families opting for SH, there are IB Stuart-Hobson, non-feeder families opting for DCI - hard to tell which is greater.  At the end of the day, we're lucky we have options . . . . wish that was the case for all DC families.

And I want to add, we routinely see Latin kids leaving at the same time in the morning so I expect that the commute via public transportation to Latin must be similar to the commute to DCI for our part of Capital Hill.  BASIS is the clear winner for shortest commute for a charter school from the Hill.[/quote]

NP here. The bolded is a silly reason to select a school. Friendships frequently change in middle school, and that's quite a gamble to bank on them staying the same.[/quote]

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