Latin Cooper and Yu Ying possibly purchasing the Kirov Ballet building (W5)

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Anonymous wrote:Why bother to widen the net when there's rising demand for Latin's brand of education among a growing group of middle-class families. Who wins when high SES DC parents flee the District for lack of decent public middle and high schools?

The inconvenient truth is that poor minority kids who study Chinese in public schools tend not to get enough Chinese or English, absent inputs DCPCS isn't providing. Their families can't afford to reinforce Chinese at home with au pairs, tutors, camps etc. They also can't afford to provide extra ELA inputs. In MoCo, the 2 Chinese ES immersion programs send poor kids to summer immersion camps free of charge. YuYing does not.

Poor kids in Ward 7 and 8 are probably better off staying close to home for their schooling, as long as they attend a well-run charter. Call me names if you have the energy, but I'm not wrong.

I agree with this as someone whose child is at a DCPS with a lot of students from Wards 7 and 8. I don't think the goal here is language immersion and parroting the values of UMC professionals in DC. Schools that cater to that demographic don't always do a great job of serving the needs of working and middle class families. I'd love it if we could do more enrichment at our school, and we are working on it. But I wouldn't start with language immersion. We focus on additional after school programming in both academic and extra-curricular subjects, more visual and performing arts opportunities, and more sports and fitness, including non-competitive fitness pursuits like yoga and dance. We also have a Spanish special in all grades, and we have families who are native Spanish speakers. But it doesn't make sense to center that with a diverse population that has far more complex needs than the average UMC family in NW or Brookland.

It's honestly a very tone deaf approach to think that what poor people in this city need is more of what UMC white people have been demanding for years.

I do want more and better HS options for kids EotR, as well as, honestly the East side of town WotR. I think a Latin campus in NE is a start, but we need more, more, more. BASIS should expand as well and we need to figure out what to do about Eastern. The attitude that only white people from Brookland or CH will take advantage of these options is ridiculous. Families EotR are ready and willing to send kids to centrally located schools. These schools need to be easy to get to via public transportation, and very importantly, need to gear their programming towards the needs of these kids. I am still hopeful that Latin Cooper will do that.

YY I could care less about. It's just not relevant to this population.

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Anonymous wrote:For sure the people on here squealing about Latin not locating in Wards 7 or 8 are simply blanket anti-charter and would absolutely throw a fit if Latin DID locate in wards 7 or 8 because either a) those wards already have 17 charter schools, it’s overkill or b) Latin would be poaching students from the already struggling middle and high schools there, blaming it for further underenrollment in DCPS. Anti charter people always have a nefarious narrative to offer no matter what these schools do.

Latin can’t win here with the detractors so they are carrying on with their mission and goals—which demonstrably include diversity goals and more robust outreach and transportation planning.

No, it's because they implied to the PCSB that an EOTR location was the goal, and then don't seem to have tried very hard, surprising nobody. And because Latin's "success" is really just having very few at-risk kids.

How do you know they “didn’t try very hard” to find a suitable location EOTR? And they implemented an at-risk preference this year for both campuses, so that seems to indicate that they are trying to serve more at risk kids.

You tell me, what locations did they bid on EOTR? How come they didn't get Wilkinson? Why give up and settle for Kirov so soon, when they could keep trying for one more year?

Their Equitable Access seats are a small percentage of their offering, much smaller than the percentage they would end up with if they located EOTR.

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Anonymous wrote:Latin NEVER committed to locate EOTR. So sick of seeing that falsehood repeated over and over on this board. Finding permanent space for over 700 kids (when fully enrolled) is very difficult to do since DCPS no longer surpluses school sites to charters. This would be a great deal for both schools.

Glad they don’t, so tired of these charter schools when we should be using the money to make dcps better.

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How come my kid is at Cooper and l didn’t get this email?
Was it sent only to Latin l parents ?

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I bet this is all just hearsay and postulation. I would not count on this.

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Post the email or it didn't happen.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/08/arts/dance/kirov-academy-ballet-school-closing.html

Interesting that CUA opted against acquiring it. And interesting that it's zoned residential.

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locating a mile away sends a clear message that they wanted to expand - basically offer the current school for more kids. which is okay because the school has a long waitlist and the brookland area is a diverse community. but the charter school board was probably under the impression that the goal was to reach another geographical set of students. a lot of ppl rely on public transportation and most families dont want to commute, will choose not to commute, and its not clearly in the child’s interest to commute 30+ minutes each way to middle school.

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Anonymous wrote:Terrible that Latin Cooper did this. They should be forced to keep their promise of an eotr location. And this will be another nail in the coffin to Brookland middle. How far apart would the two Latin campuses be?

THIS. It's truly shit behavior if, after all the song and dance they rolled out about EOTR expansion to get the new campus approved, that they are going to end up with the new campus less than a mile as the crow flies from the old campus and serving a bunch of mostly white kids from Brookland.

Ward 5 is not majority white. Why do you assume this site will be “a bunch of white kids from Brookland”? While not as accessible to kids in Wards 7 and 8, it is closer and this location off north Capitol is better for a lot of families on the East side than the original campus. More accessible by bus, in particular.

Oh come on. Nobody is happier to hear this than white families in Brookland. Me included.

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Anonymous wrote:So much for Latin's supposed desire to locate EOTR. Surprise!

They never intended to go EOTR. They always intended to be centrally located.

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Anonymous wrote:I bet this is all just hearsay and postulation. I would not count on this.

Lol, okay. I am a Latin 1 parent and received the email.

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Anonymous wrote:I bet this is all just hearsay and postulation. I would not count on this.

Lol, okay. I am a Latin 1 parent and received the email.

Can you paste it in?

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Anonymous wrote:I bet this is all just hearsay and postulation. I would not count on this.

Lol, okay. I am a Latin 1 parent and received the email.

Can you paste it in?

I am a Latin parent as well and got the email. But I feel uneasy posting internal school communications for anonymous vultures to pick through. Feel free to email or call the school and ask your questions if you care that much.

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Anonymous wrote:So much for Latin's supposed desire to locate EOTR. Surprise!

They never intended to go EOTR. They always intended to be centrally located.

They already are "centrally located". For WOTR.

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Anonymous wrote:I bet this is all just hearsay and postulation. I would not count on this.

Lol, okay. I am a Latin 1 parent and received the email.

Can you paste it in?

I am a Latin parent as well and got the email. But I feel uneasy posting internal school communications for anonymous vultures to pick through. Feel free to email or call the school and ask your questions if you care that much.

LOL. So it sounds like Latin families are the only ones on DCUM who post things without backing it up. Of all the people who should be getting this email are the copper families who someone on here said they did not get it.

What’s the big deal? General emails from school are posted here regularly.