Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCI just graduated what their 3rd class? 3 classes. The high school has barely started and people on here complaining they don’t have their stuff together and are not as strong as some of the suburban programs. No sh’t Sherlock Holmes. These people have no perspective. Why don’t you tell us how the other programs did after they graduated their 3rd class, not now when they have been around for 30, 40 years or whatever.

I’ve been watching the trajectory of the school. They are on a rapid trajectory and getting better. They already have kids getting into Ivy’s URM or not. They already have kids scoring high in the 40. Sure some of these families might have supplemented or not but if you don’t have a solid IB program, you are not going to be scoring anywhere even in the mid 30’s. Not only that, but the high school offers 3 tracks, not just IB diploma, and juggling to manage those tracks and offers variety of pathways for different kids.

Bottom line. You want what the good suburban IB schools offer now, move to the burbs. BTW, good luck getting your kid into some of those programs. But if you have time like some of us do, watch the trajectory of the school in the next 3-5 years. This is just the beginning and early infancy.

Huh?

BASIS DC has only graduated a few classes and has a much smaller senior class than DCI. Yet it seems a lot stronger academically.

JFC, it’s exhausting how Basis boosters want to hijack every thread. What don’t you get about self selection?

Open the school for all kids, take all kids in every grade, increase your at risk 3 fold, increase your SPED 3 fold. Then come back and talk to us.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCI just graduated what their 3rd class? 3 classes. The high school has barely started and people on here complaining they don’t have their stuff together and are not as strong as some of the suburban programs. No sh’t Sherlock Holmes. These people have no perspective. Why don’t you tell us how the other programs did after they graduated their 3rd class, not now when they have been around for 30, 40 years or whatever.

I’ve been watching the trajectory of the school. They are on a rapid trajectory and getting better. They already have kids getting into Ivy’s URM or not. They already have kids scoring high in the 40. Sure some of these families might have supplemented or not but if you don’t have a solid IB program, you are not going to be scoring anywhere even in the mid 30’s. Not only that, but the high school offers 3 tracks, not just IB diploma, and juggling to manage those tracks and offers variety of pathways for different kids.

Bottom line. You want what the good suburban IB schools offer now, move to the burbs. BTW, good luck getting your kid into some of those programs. But if you have time like some of us do, watch the trajectory of the school in the next 3-5 years. This is just the beginning and early infancy.

Huh?

BASIS DC has only graduated a few classes and has a much smaller senior class than DCI. Yet it seems a lot stronger academically.

JFC, it’s exhausting how Basis boosters want to hijack every thread. What don’t you get about self selection?

Open the school for all kids, take all kids in every grade, increase your at risk 3 fold, increase your SPED 3 fold. Then come back and talk to us.

Anonymous wrote:We bailed from a DCI feeder to BASIS, along with a dozen other families, because the whole DCI feeder-DCI pyramid isn't half as serious academically as it could be. The pyramid has the demographics to aim high without the ambition. Concerns about equity seem to trump rigor at every turn, with social promotion watering down DCI academics like mad. We keep up with language on our own.

We just sent our kid to a Concordia MN immersion camp. Groups of IB Middle Years students from all around the country turned up in packs. We discovered that many of the campers came on scholarships from their schools or cities, plenty from the East Coast, Boston, NYC, Philly, Raleigh etc. Turns out that our teen was the only DC PS student at the session (with hundreds of fellow campers). Where were the DCI students? Is anybody asking?

Anonymous wrote:OP, if you're still there know that it's all too easy to claim that DCI seniors are scoring sky high on IB exams because IB Geneva doesn't publish anonymized exam results by IB World School for public consumption and neither does DCI. Really too bad.

Anonymous wrote:DCI just graduated what their 3rd class? 3 classes. The high school has barely started and people on here complaining they don’t have their stuff together and are not as strong as some of the suburban programs. No sh’t Sherlock Holmes. These people have no perspective. Why don’t you tell us how the other programs did after they graduated their 3rd class, not now when they have been around for 30, 40 years or whatever.

I’ve been watching the trajectory of the school. They are on a rapid trajectory and getting better. They already have kids getting into Ivy’s URM or not. They already have kids scoring high in the 40. Sure some of these families might have supplemented or not but if you don’t have a solid IB program, you are not going to be scoring anywhere even in the mid 30’s. Not only that, but the high school offers 3 tracks, not just IB diploma, and juggling to manage those tracks and offers variety of pathways for different kids.

Bottom line. You want what the good suburban IB schools offer now, move to the burbs. BTW, good luck getting your kid into some of those programs. But if you have time like some of us do, watch the trajectory of the school in the next 3-5 years. This is just the beginning and early infancy.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCI just graduated what their 3rd class? 3 classes. The high school has barely started and people on here complaining they don’t have their stuff together and are not as strong as some of the suburban programs. No sh’t Sherlock Holmes. These people have no perspective. Why don’t you tell us how the other programs did after they graduated their 3rd class, not now when they have been around for 30, 40 years or whatever.

I’ve been watching the trajectory of the school. They are on a rapid trajectory and getting better. They already have kids getting into Ivy’s URM or not. They already have kids scoring high in the 40. Sure some of these families might have supplemented or not but if you don’t have a solid IB program, you are not going to be scoring anywhere even in the mid 30’s. Not only that, but the high school offers 3 tracks, not just IB diploma, and juggling to manage those tracks and offers variety of pathways for different kids.

Bottom line. You want what the good suburban IB schools offer now, move to the burbs. BTW, good luck getting your kid into some of those programs. But if you have time like some of us do, watch the trajectory of the school in the next 3-5 years. This is just the beginning and early infancy.

Huh?

BASIS DC has only graduated a few classes and has a much smaller senior class than DCI. Yet it seems a lot stronger academically.

Anonymous wrote:DCI just graduated what their 3rd class? 3 classes. The high school has barely started and people on here complaining they don’t have their stuff together and are not as strong as some of the suburban programs. No sh’t Sherlock Holmes. These people have no perspective. Why don’t you tell us how the other programs did after they graduated their 3rd class, not now when they have been around for 30, 40 years or whatever.

I’ve been watching the trajectory of the school. They are on a rapid trajectory and getting better. They already have kids getting into Ivy’s URM or not. They already have kids scoring high in the 40. Sure some of these families might have supplemented or not but if you don’t have a solid IB program, you are not going to be scoring anywhere even in the mid 30’s. Not only that, but the high school offers 3 tracks, not just IB diploma, and juggling to manage those tracks and offers variety of pathways for different kids.

Bottom line. You want what the good suburban IB schools offer now, move to the burbs. BTW, good luck getting your kid into some of those programs. But if you have time like some of us do, watch the trajectory of the school in the next 3-5 years. This is just the beginning and early infancy.