Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why IB students (of which there are very few for a magnet school) have to take classes before and after school to get the whole IB program. DCI is able to make the IB program happen during the course of a regular school day.

Because DCI is 100% IB and only a small number do IB at Banneker.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why IB students (of which there are very few for a magnet school) have to take classes before and after school to get the whole IB program. DCI is able to make the IB program happen during the course of a regular school day.

This is how Banneker does it. They also have a much higher community service requirement.

That’s BS. It’s not this is how Banneker does it. Their IB averages are terrible, barely passing even with the mandatory before and after school classes.

You don’t push more classes and school if kids are excelling.

Math proficiency
Banneker, 55%
DCI, 22%

Math 5s
Banneker, 8/267, 3%
DCI, 4/410, 1%

ELA proficiency
Banneker, 91%
DCI, 47%

ELA 5s
Banneker, 37%
DCI, 15%

DCI starts earlier than Banneker, ends later, and has a shorter lunch. I wouldn’t draw big conclusions about the quality of the schools based on their bell schedules.

Seriously? This is your defense why Banneker does so poorly on the IB even with hours of extra class time? Do you really think that 2 plus hours of extra class time each day is somehow being made up in DCI’s schedule? LOL!

Above examples don’t prove anything. Comparison is not the same.

DCI takes all, Banneker self selects.

DCI offers IB diploma to anyone who wants to do it. Again Banneker self selects within the self selected group.

BTW even with all of the above, DCI IB averages are better than Banneker.

Please post the link to IB scores by schools.

I'm sorry, DCI's IB for all is as absurd sounding as AP for all would be. It's an accelerated, advanced curriculum for kids that need and want an extra challenge. The IB curriculum is a ton of work and not a good fit for even every advanced student and the test scores do not support the idea that the entire student body SHOULD be offered IB. If they are, then it's not IB as it was intended.

The scores given here are not Banneker’s IB scores. Banneker’s IB English passing rate, for example, is around 98 percent for the last ten years. Please do thorough research before posting or believing posts.

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Went to the open house. Very impressive over all. Things that were good: great, candid student tour guides. Lovely building. Solid academics, manageable sized school. Some alumni there with ther kids. More extracurriculars than I thought. Less good: relatively limited advanced science/foreign language options. The dress code sounds kind of ridiculous in a way that made me wonder about the admin. approach generally.

Useful info, thanks!

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why IB students (of which there are very few for a magnet school) have to take classes before and after school to get the whole IB program. DCI is able to make the IB program happen during the course of a regular school day.

I think it’s interesting that the DCI IBD coordinator just (in August) moved to Banneker.

NP but I’m not surprised. DCPS pays more.

let's just say he was encouraged to leave.

BTW, Encouraged=Fired

Not at all true.

OP here. Went to the open house. Very impressive over all. Things that were good: great, candid student tour guides. Lovely building. Solid academics, manageable sized school. Some alumni there with ther kids. More extracurriculars than I thought. Less good: relatively limited advanced science/foreign language options. The dress code sounds kind of ridiculous in a way that made me wonder about the admin. approach generally.

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Anonymous wrote:IB going before and after school at Banneker is because Banneker has a six period day. I assume DCI has 8 classes.

What? What junior or senior at any school has 8 classes, even 6 classes a day?

The IB requirement is standard and the same across the board. 6 courses total last 2 years with the minimum total points required of 24. Then there is the theory of knowledge course, a paper, and community service requirements.

That boils down to an average of 4 courses a year (counting theory knowledge course every year) for your last 2 years.

This comment seems to come from an alternate universe.

Eight courses per year is pretty typical for American high schools. It is, for example, the standard course load at Jackson-Reed.

And I can’t think of any American high school, IB or not, that allows juniors to take fewer than six. Can anyone?

Anonymous wrote:IB going before and after school at Banneker is because Banneker has a six period day. I assume DCI has 8 classes.

What? What junior or senior at any school has 8 classes, even 6 classes a day?

The IB requirement is standard and the same across the board. 6 courses total last 2 years with the minimum total points required of 24. Then there is the theory of knowledge course, a paper, and community service requirements.

That boils down to an average of 4 courses a year (counting theory knowledge course every year) for your last 2 years.

IB going before and after school at Banneker is because Banneker has a six period day. I assume DCI has 8 classes.

Anonymous wrote:I will never understand adults who post on DCUM comparing and trashing local high schools. There are people out there who really need to do some self-reflection and examine why they feel the need to trash students and obsess over testing stats. Whether it’s DCI, Banneker, JR, or SWW a lot depends on how much effort kids put into their education. Get a life people.

Re-read the thread. Someone asked why students had to do mandatory classes before and after school at Banneker when they did not have to at another school with a similar diploma program.

Banneker booster mis-lead PP above by asserting it’s always been this way as the reason. It’s easy to see why when you look at the data. The kids need extra classes to even have a shot at getting the IB diploma. He got called out on it.

Then Banneker booster was the one doing the comparison and tried unsuccessfully to explain the reason of mandatory before and after school classes as minor differences in start/end time and put up stats with no context. He got called out again and rightly so.

You can post anything you want in an anonymous site. But data doesn’t lie.

Anonymous wrote:Slightly off topic but does anyone know details about the Nov 5th open house? Their website lists the date but nothing else.

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https://www.benjaminbanneker.org/m/events/show_event.jsp?REC_ID=3694842&id=0

Slightly off topic but does anyone know details about the Nov 5th open house? Their website lists the date but nothing else.

I will never understand adults who post on DCUM comparing and trashing local high schools. There are people out there who really need to do some self-reflection and examine why they feel the need to trash students and obsess over testing stats. Whether it’s DCI, Banneker, JR, or SWW a lot depends on how much effort kids put into their education. Get a life people.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why IB students (of which there are very few for a magnet school) have to take classes before and after school to get the whole IB program. DCI is able to make the IB program happen during the course of a regular school day.

This is how Banneker does it. They also have a much higher community service requirement.

That’s BS. It’s not this is how Banneker does it. Their IB averages are terrible, barely passing even with the mandatory before and after school classes.

You don’t push more classes and school if kids are excelling.

Math proficiency
Banneker, 55%
DCI, 22%

Math 5s
Banneker, 8/267, 3%
DCI, 4/410, 1%

ELA proficiency
Banneker, 91%
DCI, 47%

ELA 5s
Banneker, 37%
DCI, 15%

DCI starts earlier than Banneker, ends later, and has a shorter lunch. I wouldn’t draw big conclusions about the quality of the schools based on their bell schedules.

Seriously? This is your defense why Banneker does so poorly on the IB even with hours of extra class time? Do you really think that 2 plus hours of extra class time each day is somehow being made up in DCI’s schedule? LOL!

Above examples don’t prove anything. Comparison is not the same.

DCI takes all, Banneker self selects.

DCI offers IB diploma to anyone who wants to do it. Again Banneker self selects within the self selected group.

BTW even with all of the above, DCI IB averages are better than Banneker.