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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Problem is, their vision will turn off many, if not most, of the high SES parents in the feeder schools. Many will avoid DCI altogether. Plenty of others will use the MS as a stop on trains bound for Walls, Wilson, Banneker, the burbs and privates.

I've seen how IB courses get watered down when full Diploma studies aren't required. BASIS requires its students to pass comprehensive exams to advance from 6th to 8th grades, and HS students to pass AP tests (with 3s or better), to sidestep the watering down pitfall. The DC charter sector already has a model promoting real rigor at the HS level, because BASIS fought a long, hard political battle to build it. DCI could piggyback on BASIS' success (but they're losing most of the strongest 8th grade students to Walls anyway). At Walls, charter language immersion grads could take advanced classes in their languages, if not in the school, at George Washington Univ next door. Same with Howard U for Banneker. Wilson's AP Chinese program is coming along. DCI will have real trouble competing.

In a city where several big DCPS Taj Mahal high schools (loaded with under-used vocational training programs) sit half empty, we don't need more of the same. [/quote]

I agree. Thanks for posting.

And if you're the pp who posted the info about IB programs and the differences between the certificates, thanks for that, too.

My kids are young at a feeder, so I don't have the context of how DCI developed or if they had these conversations. I do hope they have looked at what made IB public schools fail or succeed elsewhere. The suburban example posted up thread seems important if data backs it up.[/quote]

Go back and look at the documents from 2014 when the agreements were made between the feeder schools and DCI.

They did have those conversations, and to get their charter approved they had to come up with a model and curriculum that was a logical next step to all 5 member schools existing charters. That includes a commitment to serving all of the member school communities, and other DC students who would join DCI via the lottery. Counseling out or aiming to serve just the high SES families wasn't an option.

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