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Anonymous wrote:The expectation at any new IB school is that the first few classes will have a pretty small group of students passing the IB exam.

In a way it doesn’t matter because the results come out after college acceptances. Once a class or two of kids go all the way through DCI will probably tweak its program as they will know what the students struggled with in the exam.

Your info on IB testing is seriously dated. For the last decade, IB students have been able to take up to 4 of their 6 subject exams in May of junior year, with the results available for college applications in the fall. It does matter if the college bound in IBD programs are on track to earn the full diploma or not. Moreover strong American IB students commonly double up on the AP exams that overlap with their IB subject exam to have more standardized test results to submit with college applications, This is standard practice in established IBD programs.

Unfortunately, DCI's admins don't seem to have a clue about any of this. The school has never even employed a college counselor.

It's amazing that there's so much misinformation on the board! The college counselor has been full-time since the oldest students started 10th grade. (https://dcinternationalschool.org/teacher/shannon-jeffries/) And for the previous poster, students can't take 4 out of 6 subject exams in May of their junior year -- that's nonsense. For those who want accurate information, dive in here: https://www.ibo.org/programmes/diploma-programme/assessment-and-exams/understanding-ib-assessment/

Thanks for setting the record straight. That didn't sound right to me either, although my experience with the IB diploma tests dates back to 1996.

The nonsense is from you, PP. High-powered IBD schools routinely allow student to take exams junior year all around the world and have for some time. My nephew, who's attends a top 10 liberal arts college, took several IBD subject exams junior from his test-in IBD school in FL. He took the remaining three exams in the spring of senior year. The school-within-a-school IBD program he attended has a pass rate of close to 90%. DCI admins just don't the tricks. Geneva IB doesn't get in the way of experience IBD coordinators who make these asks.

Get a grip OK. His school is not new and trying to implement an IB curriculum in middle and high school. Talk to us your nephews whatever school standard in 10 years or so.

But I’m sure we all want “high-powered” schools for our kids right? And test in as well, so our delightful top 10 liberal arts school nieces and nephews can ensure they remain tip top and perhaps go on to the US Supreme Court!

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Anonymous wrote:The expectation at any new IB school is that the first few classes will have a pretty small group of students passing the IB exam.

In a way it doesn’t matter because the results come out after college acceptances. Once a class or two of kids go all the way through DCI will probably tweak its program as they will know what the students struggled with in the exam.

Your info on IB testing is seriously dated. For the last decade, IB students have been able to take up to 4 of their 6 subject exams in May of junior year, with the results available for college applications in the fall. It does matter if the college bound in IBD programs are on track to earn the full diploma or not. Moreover strong American IB students commonly double up on the AP exams that overlap with their IB subject exam to have more standardized test results to submit with college applications, This is standard practice in established IBD programs.

Unfortunately, DCI's admins don't seem to have a clue about any of this. The school has never even employed a college counselor.

It's amazing that there's so much misinformation on the board! The college counselor has been full-time since the oldest students started 10th grade. (https://dcinternationalschool.org/teacher/shannon-jeffries/) And for the previous poster, students can't take 4 out of 6 subject exams in May of their junior year -- that's nonsense. For those who want accurate information, dive in here: https://www.ibo.org/programmes/diploma-programme/assessment-and-exams/understanding-ib-assessment/

Thanks for setting the record straight. That didn't sound right to me either, although my experience with the IB diploma tests dates back to 1996.

The nonsense is from you, PP. High-powered IBD schools routinely allow student to take exams junior year all around the world and have for some time. My nephew, who's attends a top 10 liberal arts college, took several IBD subject exams junior from his test-in IBD school in FL. He took the remaining three exams in the spring of senior year. The school-within-a-school IBD program he attended has a pass rate of close to 90%. DCI admins just don't the tricks. Geneva IB doesn't get in the way of experience IBD coordinators who make these asks.

Get a grip OK. His school is not new and trying to implement an IB curriculum in middle and high school. Talk to us your nephews whatever school standard in 10 years or so.

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Anonymous wrote:People are missing the real story here:the article author’s kid described the books on the list as “basic”. Um hello, last I heard, using “basic” in 2019 is basically like using the word “lit” unironically. How embarrassing for that family, really says a lot when you think about it.

+1 I hear the kids at GDS are still using lit and basic. Maybe even “litty AF”. Maybe the author’s kid belongs there after all...

LOL! Let’s put them there and see how doing the minimum will fail them out......

Anonymous wrote:Listen.

Turn to page 53 of The First rule of Punk. 5 lines down you’ll see that the negative space between text is the Illuminati triangle.

When you string all of the uncapitalized words within the titles of the books, you’ll see EXACTLY what I mean.

Will we, as the finest parents in all of Greater DC, stand for this?

As they say, if you stand for nothing you’ll fall prey to the sinful nature of graphic novels.

Thank you so much to this brave parent for shaming these good for nothing lazy educators!!! Several of whom have tattoos!

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Anonymous wrote:The expectation at any new IB school is that the first few classes will have a pretty small group of students passing the IB exam.

In a way it doesn’t matter because the results come out after college acceptances. Once a class or two of kids go all the way through DCI will probably tweak its program as they will know what the students struggled with in the exam.

Your info on IB testing is seriously dated. For the last decade, IB students have been able to take up to 4 of their 6 subject exams in May of junior year, with the results available for college applications in the fall. It does matter if the college bound in IBD programs are on track to earn the full diploma or not. Moreover strong American IB students commonly double up on the AP exams that overlap with their IB subject exam to have more standardized test results to submit with college applications, This is standard practice in established IBD programs.

Unfortunately, DCI's admins don't seem to have a clue about any of this. The school has never even employed a college counselor.

It's amazing that there's so much misinformation on the board! The college counselor has been full-time since the oldest students started 10th grade. (https://dcinternationalschool.org/teacher/shannon-jeffries/) And for the previous poster, students can't take 4 out of 6 subject exams in May of their junior year -- that's nonsense. For those who want accurate information, dive in here: https://www.ibo.org/programmes/diploma-programme/assessment-and-exams/understanding-ib-assessment/

Thanks for setting the record straight. That didn't sound right to me either, although my experience with the IB diploma tests dates back to 1996.

The nonsense is from you, PP. High-powered IBD schools routinely allow student to take exams junior year all around the world and have for some time. My nephew, who's attends a top 10 liberal arts college, took several IBD subject exams junior from his test-in IBD school in FL. He took the remaining three exams in the spring of senior year. The school-within-a-school IBD program he attended has a pass rate of close to 90%. DCI admins just don't the tricks. Geneva IB doesn't get in the way of experience IBD coordinators who make these asks.

Get a grip OK. His school is not new and trying to implement an IB curriculum in middle and high school. Talk to us your nephews whatever school standard in 10 years or so.

To the poster with the nephew, why don’t you please share the name of the school, public or private, how old is it, percentage of students who are at risk or below grade level, etc... Pointless to be on your high horse when you are not comparing apples to apples. Feel free to share......

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Anonymous wrote:People are missing the real story here:the article author’s kid described the books on the list as “basic”. Um hello, last I heard, using “basic” in 2019 is basically like using the word “lit” unironically. How embarrassing for that family, really says a lot when you think about it.

+1 I hear the kids at GDS are still using lit and basic. Maybe even “litty AF”. Maybe the author’s kid belongs there after all...

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Anonymous wrote:It's pretty easy to predict who is going to achieve an IB diploma, particularly in the first few years; it will a subset of last year's 10th-grade students who got a 4+ on PARCC (48% on ELA; 33% on Math). If you drill into the demographic subgroups, the vast number of students who were proficient or advanced were Asian or white.

I think this is why the DCI administration would not answer the question at the PCSB meeting about how many would achieve an IB diploma, and how many underserved students were in that group (he kept saying -- "I don't have the exact number right here and I don't want to speculate.' The Board member who asked the question was the same person who grilled Latin about why at-risk, disadvantaged and minority students were lagging.

DCI is going to be scrutinized by how well a wide cross-section of students do at achieving an IB diploma and/or scoring well on IB exams, and how well it delivers on its fundamental promise of IB for all. Not IB for gifted and talented, or high SES students. They have these students, with few new ones coming into the mix for 7 years.

DCPS spends one of the highest dollar per student in the country and in 5 years they have barely gone up in their PARCC scores and almost 3/4ths of the students are below grade level. You have got to be joking if you expect DCI to be awarding these kids IB diploma. It’s like saying why isn’t everyone graduating with honors in DCPS.

The IB curriculum is offered to all and the kids not at the top will be getting the career certification or program degree. It’s obvious from question above that the PCSB doesn’t understand the IB diploma either, especially since the senior class just started.

DCI should have the goal of showing improvement in competency in at risk kids in middle and high school which would be more than what DCPS is doing at these schools EOTP.

Perhaps. But that isn’t what DCI got a charter to do; they got a charter promising IB exams with passing grades for students headed to college and IB career diplomas and tech certifications for those who were not interested in attending a 4-year college. IB for all.

As for comparing DCI to DCPS (east or west of the park), charters are supposed to be about innovation to do better. If DCI becomes yet another school that delivers good results to high SES kids, and below DCPS results for everyone else, they will have badly failed.

Obviously the jury is still out and there is time. But the 10-year review isn’t that far off.

Anonymous wrote:Listen.

Turn to page 53 of The First rule of Punk. 5 lines down you’ll see that the negative space between text is the Illuminati triangle.

When you string all of the uncapitalized words within the titles of the books, you’ll see EXACTLY what I mean.

Will we, as the finest parents in all of Greater DC, stand for this?

As they say, if you stand for nothing you’ll fall prey to the sinful nature of graphic novels.

Thank you so much to this brave parent for shaming these good for nothing lazy educators!!! Several of whom have tattoos!

Anonymous wrote:People are missing the real story here:the article author’s kid described the books on the list as “basic”. Um hello, last I heard, using “basic” in 2019 is basically like using the word “lit” unironically. How embarrassing for that family, really says a lot when you think about it.

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Anonymous wrote:It's pretty easy to predict who is going to achieve an IB diploma, particularly in the first few years; it will a subset of last year's 10th-grade students who got a 4+ on PARCC (48% on ELA; 33% on Math). If you drill into the demographic subgroups, the vast number of students who were proficient or advanced were Asian or white.

I think this is why the DCI administration would not answer the question at the PCSB meeting about how many would achieve an IB diploma, and how many underserved students were in that group (he kept saying -- "I don't have the exact number right here and I don't want to speculate.' The Board member who asked the question was the same person who grilled Latin about why at-risk, disadvantaged and minority students were lagging.

DCI is going to be scrutinized by how well a wide cross-section of students do at achieving an IB diploma and/or scoring well on IB exams, and how well it delivers on its fundamental promise of IB for all. Not IB for gifted and talented, or high SES students. They have these students, with few new ones coming into the mix for 7 years.

DCPS spends one of the highest dollar per student in the country and in 5 years they have barely gone up in their PARCC scores and almost 3/4ths of the students are below grade level. You have got to be joking if you expect DCI to be awarding these kids IB diploma. It’s like saying why isn’t everyone graduating with honors in DCPS.

The IB curriculum is offered to all and the kids not at the top will be getting the career certification or program degree. It’s obvious from question above that the PCSB doesn’t understand the IB diploma either, especially since the senior class just started.

DCI should have the goal of showing improvement in competency in at risk kids in middle and high school which would be more than what DCPS is doing at these schools EOTP.

Anonymous wrote:It's pretty easy to predict who is going to achieve an IB diploma, particularly in the first few years; it will a subset of last year's 10th-grade students who got a 4+ on PARCC (48% on ELA; 33% on Math). If you drill into the demographic subgroups, the vast number of students who were proficient or advanced were Asian or white.

I think this is why the DCI administration would not answer the question at the PCSB meeting about how many would achieve an IB diploma, and how many underserved students were in that group (he kept saying -- "I don't have the exact number right here and I don't want to speculate.' The Board member who asked the question was the same person who grilled Latin about why at-risk, disadvantaged and minority students were lagging.

DCI is going to be scrutinized by how well a wide cross-section of students do at achieving an IB diploma and/or scoring well on IB exams, and how well it delivers on its fundamental promise of IB for all. Not IB for gifted and talented, or high SES students. They have these students, with few new ones coming into the mix for 7 years.

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Anonymous wrote:I have read up about it extensively. I think it’s a great diploma for top students.

My high school offered AP classes of which I took many, got college credit, and got a full 4 year academic scholarship for college.

I would take the IB diploma over just taking AP courses any day. It’s going to take time but if DCI can successfully implement a good IB curriculum from middle to high school, that is a major accomplishment to offer students in DC.

If you didn't earn the IB Diploma, or your children haven't, you don't know all that much. IBD is a GT program through and through.

Tough to implement in a school system without formal GT offerings and much academic tracking before HS unless parents supplement extensively and consistently through the years, particularly on the language immersion and writing fronts.