Wow fun, a thread from 2019!

Anonymous wrote:Is it true that first graders in the DCI feeders will only have 50% chance of getting into DCI when the time
Comes? My motivation for trying for one of the feeders is for the DCI feed but that doesn’t sounds too promising.

It depends on the school and the language track, but I'd put the number much higher than 50%. This year (SY 2025/26), there were enough DCI spots for all feeder school kids who wanted a spot at DCI middle school, according to last year's principal. However, there would not have been enough spots in the event that ALL feeder kids had wanted to go to DCI. But some families choose other options for middle school. Also, since Stokes is the only French language school, all of Stokes French students get in, even after Stokes East End expansion. That is because Stokes has 20 guaranteed French spots at DCI. But DCI has an additional 30 French lottery spots. And Stokes French families are first in line to get those additional 30 spots.

+1 good idea.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, because DCI admins aren't serious about graduating students capable of scoring high on IB Diploma language tests, not even at the Standard Level (vs. the Higher Level).

That's why some of us look to WIS and privates for more serious language instruction, and work hard and pay a lot to supplement.

You're right. Parents that can't afford WIS are probably just not working hard enough. Arghhhh!! You really should just move to Bethesda if you can't look beyond your little word to imagine what it's like to not be high SES (and yes, yes you are so don't even bother with how you work so hard to provide).

Not the PP you're responding to but you really should stop telling other people where to move, and defining their worlds as small. Why not train your ire on charter admins and fellow high SES parents who settle for so little.

MoCo's per student allocation is around 18K, almost twice what YY has to spend. MoCo draws in federal, state and corporate grant money to send low SES kids in immersion programs to summer camp.

Don't feed any troll who would like to see immersion done right. Horrible idea.