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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Deal is hardly the gold standard for public middle schools in this Metro area.  The school is over capacity by more than 130%, doesn't track academically outside of math and the campus is littered with classroom trailers.  If we had public middle school offerings in this city that could compete with even middling echelon suburban schools, DCI admins would come under far more pressure to up their game.
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This is hilarious.  So troll says that no one leaves DCI because they have no other choice.  The Deal families on here post they chose DCI over Deal.  So now that the first statement has been proven false the DCI haters say Deal isn’t that good to begin with although it’s the best middle school in the city.

So now what?  Let’s see everyone should move to the burbs?  You mean in FCPS where there is massive grade inflation and 80% of the kids make honors society (fact)?  Or MCPS where kids can retake tests multiple times, don’t have to hand in assignments on time and can later still get credit?  Yes let’s do that.

At least in the IB diploma track, you can’t do grade inflation or dumb down the curriculum where everyone gets an A because it’s graded by 3rd parties.

I so enjoy all these posters who don’t have kids art Deal going around in circles.[/quote]

What do you actually know about the IB Diploma curriculum? Their subject tests are graded by 3rd parties the summer AFTER the kids has graduated, as long as 9 months AFTER the kid has applied to college.  Eastern HS on Cap Hill has offered IB Diploma for 10 years now, without much in the way of improvement.  Most of their IBD students actually fail to achieve the diploma. It's possible to take one or two IB Diploma exams junior year--not the case until a decade back--but that's it.

Sounds like the point is that offerings are slim in the DC public middle schools aisle.  Who could argue with that.

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