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[quote=Anonymous]Nobody's being spoken to in Mandarin "all day at school" at DCI. This wasn't happening at YY either.

The only DCI Chinese track students who speak the language well are the handful who've have had at least one native-speaking adult in the home for years who requires the kids to speak Chinese. If you're a native speaker of Mandarin and you've spent time around YY and DCI kids for years speaking Chinese, you know what I'm talking about.

Even the most advanced Mandarin speakers in DCI's HS struggle to communicate in Chinese in view of the fact that they've been studying the language for more than a decade. These kids generally can't score high (6s-7s) on any IB Diploma Higher Level subject. What happens is that hardly any of these kids earn IB Diploma points totals in the high 30s or 40s, which is routine at half a dozen public IBD programs in this Metro area. Even so, DCI still gets some decent college acceptances.

If DCI parents minded the school's mediocre IBD scores, they'd pay for WIS or move to the burbs for one of the IBD programs where most students score high. The list isn't long: Washington-Liberty in Arlington, 3 or 4 programs in Fairfax, Bethesda Chevy Chase's school-within-a-school program or Richard Montgomery in Rockville (test-in, 8th grade, 10% admitted).[/quote]

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