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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Plenty of fools in DCI feeders and DCI, if not total fools. Many feeder families gladly bail for Latin and BASIS, ending the pretense that they were taking the language learning seriously.[/quote]

LOL, not impressed by lackluster Latin and Basis sucks for anything but academics.

I’ll take DCI with a well rounded experience at a bigger school any day.  Also data doesn’t support your premise that many families are bailing at all, they are tracking to DCI.

Lastly, you are showing your ignorance but lots of families and kids who are serious about Spanish.

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Hope a majority of DCI students can at least hit grade level for reading.  Math seems hopeless.[/quote]

COVID has affected everyone and if you look at DCI, they are doing better than the overwhelming majority of middle and high schools in the city.

Their scores are actually pretty close to Latin.  Basis self selects so not sure why people on here use them as a comparison.  Apples to oranges.[/quote]

I thought that BASIS DC was 100% lottery?

Also, with the feeder system, language requirement, etc. DCI can't fairly be considered 100% lottery.  So, DCI is even more "selective" than BASIS, whatever that means.

Thus, DCI's poor results seem even worse by comparison.[/quote]

Families self select, meaning only families that will fit with their methodology choose to lottery and/or take seats at BASIS. [/quote]

Isn't that true for every school?  For example, if someone goes to DCI, he or she is self-selecting for the DCI methodology, etc.[/quote]

Absolutely not. Push and pull factors - MANY (not all) families choose DCI feeders to escape their in-bounds and get a path through high school. Not because they’re passionate about Chinese or IB diplomas for their 3 year old. Same with a school like Inspired Teaching or Latin. They’re push factors because they’re better than the other option. Basis is hard and people know they’re kid may not be able to hack it, so they don’t choose it unless they think their kid is a good fit for the actual program. Those are pull factors. It’s a big difference.[/quote]

I'll bet that sounded persuasive in your head.

Any parent electing to send their kid to a charter school over their in-bounds school is making a choice.  A lot of factors go into that choice including lottery number (most important), fit, commute, rigor, sports, activities, etc.

If you choose to go to BASIS starting in 5th grade, you are self-selecting.

If you choose to go to DCI starting in 6th grade, you are self-selecting.[/quote]

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