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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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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So your only goal I’m assuming is to get into a good college? I feel sorry for you.

Our goal for DC is to get a broad based education and the IB diploma curriculum is a good one.  In addition, it develops strong writing skills which is sadly lacking in many public school’s curriculum.  There is even a requirement for an in depth paper.

I went the AP route in high school, took a lot of courses, got college credit, etc...   But we are very interested in the IB program and diploma.[/quote]

You might want to attend an open house at a Metro area school with an IBD program that started 25 or 30 years ago, e.g. Richard Montgomery HS in Rockville or Washington-Liberty in Arlington. DCI hasn't employed seasoned IDD admins, so you want to take what theirs tell you about IBD with a grain of salt.  They don't know some basics or elite college admissions tricks specific to IBD.  You can always contact Geneva HQ directly with questions.

Strong writing skills can be difficult to develop with a cohort of middle school kids who mostly work behind grade level in your kid's humanities classes.  Teachers focus on helping those kids test proficient on PARCC ELA. It's not uncommon for high SES DCI middle school families to hire writing tutors.  Some team up to do this privately.  That's what we did in 6th grade, with another family, before leaving DCI.
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Lots of Deal and Wilson families also have tutors.  Writing is very weak to nonexistent in DCPS.[/quote]

True. You hear these stories all over. Washington Latin is probably ahead of the curve. BASIS doesn't seem to do a good job with writing instruction either.  [/quote]

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