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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a stretch to say that social studies is tracked by language at DCI. The truth is that few DCI students coming up from the ES feeders have experienced true language immersion. What they got down the chain was one-way immersion, with kids learning the language only from teachers, not from peers (particularly for French and Chinese).

A school system can't do language immersion well without good cohorts of native speakers. Tracked DCI immersion social studies model sounds fantastic, but it's not.

DCI does track for MS English, but only to weed out students who work far behind grade level. English instruction in the DCI MS tends to be weak, and it's not great in the HS either.

Come on, DCI has such a high retention rate because other options are worse. DCI has done well in adding math challenge in the last few years; I'll give you that. [/quote]

Come on, you know very well that I’m speaking about spanish track where there are tons of native speakers from the feeders and yes, it does immersion well and the track social studies is good.

Nope, know of 5 families whose kids all declined Walls.  They had options and are staying.  Plus easy enough to move to the burbs or go private.

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PP above offers a distorted picture. We know more than 5 DCI families, all from Ward 6, who would have leapt on Walls last year if they'd got a spot. A major reason that these kids would have left DCI is that they commute an hour one-way on public transportation to get to Walter Read. The commute to Walls is half as long and doesn't involve as many steps. The DCI schlep isn't uncommon for Cap Hill families shut out of BASIs and the Latins.

No way is it easy to move to the burbs or go private, far from it. It's not easy to pick up and leave if you've put down roots in DC over man years. We got into privates for HS but didn't get anywhere near the aid we needed, with one of us DOGE'd. Our story isn't uncommon. [/quote]

+1. Just because there are kids that stayed doesn’t mean there weren’t kids that would have chosen Walls but didn’t get in. [/quote]

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