Anonymous wrote:I roll my eyes when parents come to DCUM to post about how quickly any particular public school will go from primarily serving low SES students to high SES.

The reality is that most parents will vote with their feet for many years before this happens, if it ever happens.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe, but why should we believe that it will? It took Latin over a decade before most of the middle school families began to stay through high school.

Because the city has changed significantly compared to back then. It has gentrified very, very much. Much, much more competition from UMC families now for middle and high schools EOTP.

You can’t get anything renovated for less than 700-800k except for EOTR and few outlier areas close to the border.

Without a doubt, DCI is going to have a lot of UMC families who will go there.

I’m laughing at all the people who post that it’s not rigorous enough. Guess they have not figured out that no DCPS or charter school is rigorous enough to track the highest performing kids. Maybe Basis, but that school only works for a certain subset of high performing kids, not all. It’s all about peer groups people.

Anonymous wrote:For the DCI graduates reading this post...bravo! Congratulations! Your community is proud of you. Keep striving.

Anonymous wrote:Maybe, but why should we believe that it will? It took Latin over a decade before most of the middle school families began to stay through high school.

Anonymous wrote:This exact conversation took place about Latin's first graduating class and it was just as ugly.

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Anonymous wrote:You bleeding hearts can't see the forest for the trees here.

Nobody's attacking the first DCI graduates on this thread. What concerns parents like me is that the strongest 4th grade students at our feeder, and most of the other feeders apparently, are mostly jumping ship before 6th grade at DCI. The arrangement just doesn't bode well for the development of the International Baccalaureate Diploma program there. Why can't DCI send graduates to elite colleges, starting next year? They can't because they haven't been aiming high from the get go (come on, no real academic tracking in middle school).

In a nutshell, it sucks when you've been knocking yourself out to ensure that your kid's language skills are decent for 6 or 7 years, only to find that your only good middle school option in the DC public system for math, ELA, social studies etc. is probably BASIS. That program doesn't even teach foreign languages before 7th grade, and then only at the beginning level.

DCI admins are letting us down, period.

There are several posts here that are doing just that, calling them "weak graduating cohorts" etc. and diminishing their accomplishments. It comes off as just really petty and mean-spirited, and doesn't really engender sympathy to your cause (native speaker lotteries).

NP. Give us a break. Graduating from a public HS to enroll in community college is hardly the worst outcome for a low-income minority student in a jurisdiction where around 60% of high school-age students fail to graduate. But it's not too hot coming out of a supposedly high-powered International Baccalaureate Diploma program. My ire is reserved for the DCPCS Board, the city council members, the last several DC mayors, the DCI Board, and the boards of the feeder schools.

We were promised a rigorous PreK-12th grade education in the DCI pyramid that we aren't getting. I don't have a cause: I have a plan to ensure that my bright children have a shot at attending elite colleges. Avoiding DCI seems imperative, not how I was thinking when we started in a feeder six or seven years ago.

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Anonymous wrote:You bleeding hearts can't see the forest for the trees here.

Nobody's attacking the first DCI graduates on this thread. What concerns parents like me is that the strongest 4th grade students at our feeder, and most of the other feeders apparently, are mostly jumping ship before 6th grade at DCI. The arrangement just doesn't bode well for the development of the International Baccalaureate Diploma program there. Why can't DCI send graduates to elite colleges, starting next year? They can't because they haven't been aiming high from the get go (come on, no real academic tracking in middle school).

In a nutshell, it sucks when you've been knocking yourself out to ensure that your kid's language skills are decent for 6 or 7 years, only to find that your only good middle school option in the DC public system for math, ELA, social studies etc. is probably BASIS. That program doesn't even teach foreign languages before 7th grade, and then only at the beginning level.

DCI admins are letting us down, period.

There are several posts here that are doing just that, calling them "weak graduating cohorts" etc. and diminishing their accomplishments. It comes off as just really petty and mean-spirited, and doesn't really engender sympathy to your cause (native speaker lotteries).

NP. Give us a break. Graduating from a public HS to enroll in community college is hardly the worst outcome for a low-income minority student in a jurisdiction where around 60% of high school-age students fail to graduate. But it's not too hot coming out of a supposedly high-powered International Baccalaureate Diploma program. My ire is reserved for the DCPCS Board, the city council members, the last several DC mayors, the DCI Board, and the boards of the feeder schools.

We were promised a rigorous PreK-12th grade education in the DCI pyramid that we aren't getting. I don't have a cause: I have a plan to ensure that my bright children have a shot at attending elite colleges. Avoiding DCI seems imperative, not how I was thinking when we started in a feeder six or seven years ago.

Anyone who thought DCI was going to be a “high powered” IB school hasn’t paid attention. It is IB for ALL has high percentage of at-risk kids; and is running a career track as well as the diploma track. It is not measuring itself against your benchmarks.

It isn’t Richard Montgomery (a test-in magnet) or WIS (a private) and isn’t trying to be.

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Anonymous wrote:You bleeding hearts can't see the forest for the trees here.

Nobody's attacking the first DCI graduates on this thread. What concerns parents like me is that the strongest 4th grade students at our feeder, and most of the other feeders apparently, are mostly jumping ship before 6th grade at DCI. The arrangement just doesn't bode well for the development of the International Baccalaureate Diploma program there. Why can't DCI send graduates to elite colleges, starting next year? They can't because they haven't been aiming high from the get go (come on, no real academic tracking in middle school).

In a nutshell, it sucks when you've been knocking yourself out to ensure that your kid's language skills are decent for 6 or 7 years, only to find that your only good middle school option in the DC public system for math, ELA, social studies etc. is probably BASIS. That program doesn't even teach foreign languages before 7th grade, and then only at the beginning level.

DCI admins are letting us down, period.

There are several posts here that are doing just that, calling them "weak graduating cohorts" etc. and diminishing their accomplishments. It comes off as just really petty and mean-spirited, and doesn't really engender sympathy to your cause (native speaker lotteries).

NP. Give us a break. Graduating from a public HS to enroll in community college is hardly the worst outcome for a low-income minority student in a jurisdiction where around 60% of high school-age students fail to graduate. But it's not too hot coming out of a supposedly high-powered International Baccalaureate Diploma program. My ire is reserved for the DCPCS Board, the city council members, the last several DC mayors, the DCI Board, and the boards of the feeder schools.

We were promised a rigorous PreK-12th grade education in the DCI pyramid that we aren't getting. I don't have a cause: I have a plan to ensure that my bright children have a shot at attending elite colleges. Avoiding DCI seems imperative, not how I was thinking when we started in a feeder six or seven years ago.

Anonymous wrote:I am a DCI parent and I want to congratulate these students! I am happy that it appears that they chose schools that likely have some strong appeal to them. The schools may not be the elite schools that we all seem to think our children need to attend, but they are high-quality schools that I would be happy with for my child (and I don't think believing that your child does not need to attend an elite school means your expectations are lower for them. There are excellent non-elite schools that might be a much better fit for your child). I am proud of DCI for highlighting each student's choice as well.