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[quote=Anonymous]You're painting with too broad a brush, letting DCPC off the hook for running with a chaotic IB-for-all program at DCI.  The approach has a lot in common with the much-maligned honors for all at Wilson.  DCI offers too little challenge too late for the kids with the potential to score high on IB exams, mainly because there's no academic tracking for humanities or sciences in MS, and not nearly enough in HS.  These are policy decisions that DC ed leaders could have made differently.

All of the students attending high-performing IB Diploma programs in the burbs aren't wealthy, not by a long shot.  The programs at Washington-Liberty and Richard Montgomery (county-wide draw) are down to earth, with plenty of moderately priced condo housing within the catchment areas.  What's different in the burbs is that admins and parents don't pretend that great socioeconomic and racial diversity is the key to strong IB Diploma prep.  They grasp that 2-way language immersion and MS academic tracking are critical to success.  What's happening at DCI is that most of the students taking higher level IBD language exams are bombing them, scoring 2s and 3s on a 1-7 grading scale.

I didn't grow up privileged either, earning the Diploma at one of the first public schools in the country to offer it and attending college on a Pell Grant.[/quote]

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