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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This isn’t about the feeders. What feeder you came from is irrelevant once you get to DCI, save for your language track.

DCI does track math, and language by ability. Like every other charter t[b]here is no tracking for English and Science.[/b] That should be abundantly clear to anyone enrolling. If you don’t like it, then choose something else.

Cue ‘but we were promised,’ ‘it’s so hard EOTP.’

The ‘guarantee of DCI’ everyone mentions really only means you have a seat. You can’t assume it is going to work for your kid. People should choose their elementary schools and do ANOTHER deep and serious evaluation of all options starting when their kids are rising 4th graders. [/quote]

Not quite true: BASIS offers advanced science options to a minority of students starting in 8th grade.

The mom who wrote the article sounds a bit unrealistic, but she also sounds legitimately frustrated, given how DCI and the feeders pitch their programs to parents.  MV, YY etc. loved to convince parents that the kids can learn to speak languages well without native speakers in the home (invariably untrue), that they teach advanced math, that their ELA programs are first-rate etc.

We know a number of immersion charter parents whose wake-up call came when they didn't send their children to DCI.  It took admins and teachers at privates, Deal and suburban schools to convince them that the kids weren't doing nearly as well academically as the parents had been encouraged to assume lower down the chain. I liked the mom's point about how her boys feel that the program "works" for them, because they don't need to work hard at DCI.

The mom wasn't just unhappy about DCI's lame academics, she was lamenting a generalized situation for middle school in DC public.  Good for her because she's right, and political momentum to change this calculus hasn't kept pace with UMC parent expectations City-wide. 
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