Anonymous wrote:This is encouraging, though not a single Ivy or equivalent suggests it's probably not getting much buy in from top students.

Ivy Day had not happened yet

"someone who knows DCI intimately"? What, you're sleeping with the school?

Anonymous wrote:I’m convinced the people on this forum who praise DCI are all in upper leadership or closely aligned to them.

Signed,

Someone who knows DCI intimately

I don’t know who is making these posts but I have multiple friends with kids at DCI. They are all thrilled. They could very easily be making these posts as well.

I wouldn't be surprised.

Last year's Diploma results were simply dismal, a real letdown.

I’m convinced the people on this forum who praise DCI are all in upper leadership or closely aligned to them.

Signed,

Someone who knows DCI intimately

You folks don’t get it. Posters aren’t “putting down” DCI for fun. We want a competitive IBD program in this city, on a par with those in the burbs. We’re not impressed that 85% on the 2020 seniors failed to earn the Diploma. Those of us who earned the Diploma ourselves are particularly dismayed by this result. We want reform in the DC public language immersion charter realm. We want better bang for our bucks, and your bucks at DCI. We want the program to succeed, not just scrape by like this. Some of us were first generation college students of color ourselves.

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Anonymous wrote:I am curious how all of these acceptances happen if the school has as many behavioral problems as folks post about? DCI’s reputation as being lax and not firm in their management is what concerns me about sending a child here.

Let's think critically about this. My daughter goes to DCI, and knows someone who was accepted to Yale. So how truthful/widespread can the "many behavioral problems" be? How "lax and not firm in their management" is the school?

People love to come on here and pile on about shit they don't understand. Many children have received an education and are going on to college from a public school. This should be celebrated.

People can continue to clutch their pearls about DCI's 'reputation', my kids are thriving there.

+1 I am not sure why people here are always so negative about DCI and it’s feeders. Because they are charters? I don’t see the same issue for DCPS that are doing worst.

I don’t have any kids at the school.

But I agree that people just love to put down a new school that they don’t understand, obviously have no kids at the school, and are in their bubble. Well everyone should be getting the IB diploma with scores of mid 30’s. Don’t forget admission to the Ivys or it’s crap.

The school just graduated their 1st class last year - their 1st class mind you, who I’m sure a good number of students did not come from feeders. Why would you try out a new school, an unknown quantity, when you have other options and the lottery?

In addition, 20% at risk with 40% not on grade level in ELA. But sure everyone should be fluent in another language.

Don’t worry. Latin, Basis was attacked as much when they started out.

What is ironic is that Wilson college acceptances have been really subpar this year while it sounds like DCI’s has been better.

+2. The entitlement of some and the vitriol of others is truly astounding. Congratulations to all the people who made DCI possible and to the students who worked so hard to graduate under such adverse conditions!

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Anonymous wrote:I am curious how all of these acceptances happen if the school has as many behavioral problems as folks post about? DCI’s reputation as being lax and not firm in their management is what concerns me about sending a child here.

Let's think critically about this. My daughter goes to DCI, and knows someone who was accepted to Yale. So how truthful/widespread can the "many behavioral problems" be? How "lax and not firm in their management" is the school?

People love to come on here and pile on about shit they don't understand. Many children have received an education and are going on to college from a public school. This should be celebrated.

People can continue to clutch their pearls about DCI's 'reputation', my kids are thriving there.

+1 I am not sure why people here are always so negative about DCI and it’s feeders. Because they are charters? I don’t see the same issue for DCPS that are doing worst.

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Anonymous wrote:I am curious how all of these acceptances happen if the school has as many behavioral problems as folks post about? DCI’s reputation as being lax and not firm in their management is what concerns me about sending a child here.

Let's think critically about this. My daughter goes to DCI, and knows someone who was accepted to Yale. So how truthful/widespread can the "many behavioral problems" be? How "lax and not firm in their management" is the school?

People love to come on here and pile on about shit they don't understand. Many children have received an education and are going on to college from a public school. This should be celebrated.

People can continue to clutch their pearls about DCI's 'reputation', my kids are thriving there.

There are always students that succeed at every school. That doesn’t negate the fact that there are others who don’t, or that there are behavior problems. BOTH can simultaneously be true.

Anonymous wrote:I am curious how all of these acceptances happen if the school has as many behavioral problems as folks post about? DCI’s reputation as being lax and not firm in their management is what concerns me about sending a child here.

Let's think critically about this. My daughter goes to DCI, and knows someone who was accepted to Yale. So how truthful/widespread can the "many behavioral problems" be? How "lax and not firm in their management" is the school?

People love to come on here and pile on about shit they don't understand. Many children have received an education and are going on to college from a public school. This should be celebrated.

People can continue to clutch their pearls about DCI's 'reputation', my kids are thriving there.

Anonymous wrote:Have the IB scores for this graduating class been released?

Not yet. I expect it to be better than last year since this cohort of students was stronger.

Have the IB scores for this graduating class been released?

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Anonymous wrote:Every one of the top DCI admits are first-generation URM (under represented minorities). Which is GREAT!

But makes these elite admits completely irrelevant to most of us on this site.
If you are white and your kid is at the top of the DCI class they'll be going to Pitt or Wisconsin or similar.

This is an excellent point. IB Diploma point totals in the 20s will mostly work for low-SES, first-generation URMs aiming high in college admissions.

Not thjavascript:void(0);e rest of us.

Are there stats on this or is that too identifiable for FERPA? Top schools require IB scores in the mid-30s. I'm really trying to reconcile such low pass rates with the college acceptances reported on this thread. I don't think they're lying, but as someone who went to state school for undergrad and an ivy for grad, I can attest your average MC white kid has to work their butt off and score REALLY high to get into a top college. An IB diploma alone is not going to cut it.

IB scores don't even come out until after students have already been admitted to colleges, so how do top schools require IB scores in the mid-30s?

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Anonymous wrote:Sometime up upgraded mentioned DCI appealing to change their charter regarding IB goals. Is that true and where could I read about that?

Typo. I meant upthread, not upgraded.

It was me. I can’t remember where I read the information - I think it was posted by the DCPCSB since they always post their agendas on social media. This is the only information I could find via Google search. Of course, DCI tried to frame the request in a positive way, but really they were just requesting to change their goals for the performance framework.

https://dcregs.dc.gov/Common/DCR/Issues/IssueCategoryList.aspx?DownloadFile=%7B374EED74-93B2-4590-97F0-8878EDF13919%7D

Okay, I found it. Here is the transcript - the DCI stuff starts on page 133. You can clearly see how they asked to lower the standards for their goals.

https://www.livebinders.com/media/get/MjA0ODI4NTQ=

Wow, so the justification they give is that kids come into the feeder schools late and come directly into DCI through the lottery, so they enter without enough language. Except that the feeders are much more competitive now and in the next few years 99% of kids, maybe Chinese excepted, will have been in a feeder since ECE. And the original goal said students who have studied a language for at least 5 years by 11th grade - even if they did one or two years at a feeder, they'd more than meet that. It sounds like they were overly ambitious for how seriously they thought students and families take immersion in DC. I don't understand how you can teach high school level courses in a foreign language when only 50% of kids have intermediate (4/5 out of a scale of 1-9) proficiency, but I guess they either allow a lot of English or water down the standards.

https://avantassessment.com/stamp4s/benchmark-rubric-guide