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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe you're right, but it's also true that many time-stretched DC parents are only too happy to delude themselves that the DCI feeder and DCI itself offer an excellent all-around education. I admit that were in that category for years, fairly content until we switched to a rigorous private last year.  Admins and the excellent middle school Chinese teacher there sat us down and gave us a harsh straight-up assessment of where were with academics for our kid.  He'd always earned excellent grades at YY but, in the eyes of the new school, needed remedial interventions in 5th grade, particularly for writing and speaking Chinese. Fortunately, interventions worked and the kid has caught up. His grades at the new school, where he needs to work much harder than at YY, have gone from poor or mediocre to good or excellent in the last 18 months. Best to stop pretending sooner rather than later.

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This is too funny.  You don’t even have a kid at DCI. NO experience at DCI whatsoever.

It’s common knowledge that writing is weaker in public and charter schools than private.  Common, no new news here.  I suggest you put any kid at Hardy, Deal, MCPS, or FCPS at your private school and they will tell you the same thing about writing.  I know because nephew is in FCPS and writing is not very good.

As to Chinese, it’s already common knowledge that there are no native speakers.

Also you are not comparing apples to apples.  You are going to a private that likely costs 30-40k.  It doesn’t have to educate everyone, only the wealthy who can afford it, who also can afford a lot of supplementation, tutors, etc....

You need to take a seat.[/quote]

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