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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]+100. It's also not entitled to want IB Diploma curriculum implemented as intended by the IB organization half a century ago.  [b]Diploma studies are supposed to serve students with an academic bent bound for competitive bachelors degree programs around the world, with particular emphasis on speaking and understanding second and third languages.  The curriculum just wasn't created to serve every American capable of earning a HS diploma.[/b][/quote]

This. DCI chose to implement an IB program when they could have implemented a more traditional high school (like Latin) with more enhanced immersion offerings and AP courses. IB for all is like AP for all, it forces programs that are designed to provide advanced level work to be watered down so that everyone can handle them. But not every kid SHOULD be in AP courses or an IB program, average and below average students should be in courses that are designed to challenge students at that level. That is what an appropriate public school education should do.

I truly think a school like DCI (and the feeders TBH) serves a very specific subset of parents best. Middle class parents with average students get a "elite" education with an acceptable SES cohort, but without the true rigor that would make it clear that their kids are actually average students. So they see their kids getting As in an IB program and are thrilled, whereas parents with above average kids see their kids coasting without having to put any work in and are frustrated. I know I personally don't have the patience to watch my very smart, but very lazy, kid coast in middle or high school (I coasted and it taught me so many bad work habits that I'm still struggling to unlearn), so unless DCI changes significantly in the next few years, we'll be one of those families moving or doing private. [/quote]

Same here.  IB for all makes me nervous for my bilingual and somewhat lazy kid.  We passed on our DCI spot.[/quote]

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