Latin Cooper: Move to Kirov building

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is all moot. The Kirov campus has been purchased.

What exactly is the issue, though? There are plenty of charter schools in EOTP. Why does Latin have to open their second campus there?

There is no issue. I'm a Latin parent. A very happy one. I don't care. At all.

Well of course you don't, you've got yours. It's the people EOTR who don't go to Latin who would care. And it's annoying that the PCSB let Latin expand despite its poor performance with at-risk kids, on the strength of a promise to try to locate EOTR and then surprise surprise, what a shocker that it doesn't work out.

[Anonymous]

Never change, DCUM. Never change. Bunch of whiny performative crisis actors who sit in the corner and take pot shots at all schools no matter what they do. Latin should have found a magic building in a neighborhood most of DCUM won't even drive through. Basis is too test focused. Banneker has good test scores, but it is too black. Wilson High is overcrowded. The new HS was desperately needed...or not needed. It is in the wrong place...or the right place but wrong building.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never change, DCUM. Never change. Bunch of whiny performative crisis actors who sit in the corner and take pot shots at all schools no matter what they do. Latin should have found a magic building in a neighborhood most of DCUM won't even drive through. Basis is too test focused. Banneker has good test scores, but it is too black. Wilson High is overcrowded. The new HS was desperately needed...or not needed. It is in the wrong place...or the right place but wrong building.

KIPP obtained a large building EOTR, so why was KIPP able to accomplish that and Latin could not? It isn't magic.

Digital Pioneers is in a newly constructed building. Why couldn't Latin go that route?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never change, DCUM. Never change. Bunch of whiny performative crisis actors who sit in the corner and take pot shots at all schools no matter what they do. Latin should have found a magic building in a neighborhood most of DCUM won't even drive through. Basis is too test focused. Banneker has good test scores, but it is too black. Wilson High is overcrowded. The new HS was desperately needed...or not needed. It is in the wrong place...or the right place but wrong building.

Come on. Latin asked to expand with the charter board under the guise of putting a building across the river and enrolling a higher number of at risk kids. Another campus right down the road is not the application they put in for.

[Anonymous]

KIPP is a ginormous entity with charters in many locations and a lot more $$$

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:KIPP is a ginormous entity with charters in many locations and a lot more $$$

And Digital Pioneers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:KIPP is a ginormous entity with charters in many locations and a lot more $$$

If you're asserting that KIPP out-bid Latin, what evidence is there for that? Did Latin bid at all? Participate in the process even at all? Or were they never really trying to locate EOTR and just saying that they'd try so that the PCSB would rubber-stamp their expansion?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is all moot. The Kirov campus has been purchased.

What exactly is the issue, though? There are plenty of charter schools in EOTP. Why does Latin have to open their second campus there?

There is no issue. I'm a Latin parent. A very happy one. I don't care. At all.

Well of course you don't, you've got yours. It's the people EOTR who don't go to Latin who would care. And it's annoying that the PCSB let Latin expand despite its poor performance with at-risk kids, on the strength of a promise to try to locate EOTR and then surprise surprise, what a shocker that it doesn't work out.

How dare a school do a great job educating the vast majority of its students! This is DC, where we measure success solely by the performance of at-risk kids who come to school with a plethora of issues for which no school is equipped to adequately support. PP is part of the like hive mind that thinks that Honors for All is a good idea so that kids who are not performing well won't have to deal with reality and can be socially promoted up to graduation.

Go away.

[Anonymous]

there is a lot of new construction going up in historic anacostia right now. is kirov a done deal?

[Anonymous]

Latin Cooper Campus is a closed real estate transaction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Latin Cooper Campus is a closed real estate transaction.

Did the Charter Board have to approve the final transaction or will they go plea on a retroactive charter amendment? Optically, terrrrrible, however I get the space and availability issue.

Where you like it or not (I do not), if I were the Latin Board now, I'd move to meld the campuses and make Cooper/Kirov the Middle School and 2nd the High school.

This is definitely a death knell to the already struggling Creative Minds middle school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Latin Cooper Campus is a closed real estate transaction.

Did the Charter Board have to approve the final transaction or will they go plea on a retroactive charter amendment? Optically, terrrrrible, however I get the space and availability issue.

Where you like it or not (I do not), if I were the Latin Board now, I'd move to meld the campuses and make Cooper/Kirov the Middle School and 2nd the High school.

This is definitely a death knell to the already struggling Creative Minds middle school

I love this idea! (Cooper parent)

[Anonymous]

Not happening, no interest from Latin's leadership and nobody can force their hand on it. That's the way charters work in this city. The proposed solution above has great potential. Merging the programs would create economies of scale at both the Latin middle school and high school, allowing for stronger advanced offerings. But it won't come to pass.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is all moot. The Kirov campus has been purchased.

What exactly is the issue, though? There are plenty of charter schools in EOTP. Why does Latin have to open their second campus there?

There is no issue. I'm a Latin parent. A very happy one. I don't care. At all.

Well of course you don't, you've got yours. It's the people EOTR who don't go to Latin who would care. And it's annoying that the PCSB let Latin expand despite its poor performance with at-risk kids, on the strength of a promise to try to locate EOTR and then surprise surprise, what a shocker that it doesn't work out.

How dare a school do a great job educating the vast majority of its students! This is DC, where we measure success solely by the performance of at-risk kids who come to school with a plethora of issues for which no school is equipped to adequately support. PP is part of the like hive mind that thinks that Honors for All is a good idea so that kids who are not performing well won't have to deal with reality and can be socially promoted up to graduation.

Go away.

NP. You're sarcastic rhetoric isn't really swaying anyone to your side. The PP makes legitimate points and you are coming off very much like a resource hoarder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not happening, no interest from Latin's leadership and nobody can force their hand on it. That's the way charters work in this city. The proposed solution above has great potential. Merging the programs would create economies of scale at both the Latin middle school and high school, allowing for stronger advanced offerings. But it won't come to pass.

It's up to the parents to force this change. I think Latin parents are just the type of invested parents to make this happen.