Latin Cooper: Move to Kirov building

[Anonymous]

People who remember, what commitments did Latin make regarding siting to the PCSB?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People who remember, what commitments did Latin make regarding siting to the PCSB?

In general, all charter applications state where the school hopes to be located, but there's no commitment to abide by. Many schools said they aimed to be located in neighborhoods where they did not end up opening.

[Anonymous]

Is the Kirov building going to host MS, HS, or both?

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Anonymous wrote:Is the Kirov building going to host MS, HS, or both?

Both plus some space for Yu Ying.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is the Kirov building going to host MS, HS, or both?

Both plus some space for Yu Ying.

Thanks!
How hard is enrollment at HS from other MSs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is the Kirov building going to host MS, HS, or both?

Both plus some space for Yu Ying.

Thanks!
How hard is enrollment at HS from other MSs?

Nearly impossible! Right now the Cooper campus serves only 5th and 6th grades. They're going to build up to 12th one year at a time. With a brand new campus there's more flexibility on taking new kids after 5th grade, but in the long run, I don't think there will be much. At the original Latin campus they take very few 9th graders, and basically none in any other grade.

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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.

Just so I understand your position here, an in demand school (one of the best in the city) that excels at educating the vast majority kids attending but struggles with at-risk kids like every other school on earth should not be permitted to expand to meet pent up demand unless and until it solves a heretofore unsolvable societal problem? And you think calling BS on the woke-tastic view makes me a "resource hoarder"?

[Anonymous]

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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.

Just so I understand your position here, an in demand school (one of the best in the city) that excels at educating the vast majority kids attending but struggles with at-risk kids like every other school on earth should not be permitted to expand to meet pent up demand unless and until it solves a heretofore unsolvable societal problem? And you think calling BS on the woke-tastic view makes me a "resource hoarder"?

Nobody's expecting them to solve it but they really aren't doing very well right now.

The idea was to try to locate EOTR. Did they try, or was that all talk?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Just so I understand your position here, an in demand school (one of the best in the city) that excels at educating the vast majority kids attending but struggles with at-risk kids like every other school on earth should not be permitted to expand to meet pent up demand unless and until it solves a heretofore unsolvable societal problem? And you think calling BS on the woke-tastic view makes me a "resource hoarder"?

The PP you're responding to: Curious, what makes Latin students excel?

[Anonymous]

one general criticism of latin is that it is reasonably difficult for a lot of the city to get too (and intentional or not a lot of the families who choose the school have relatively more resources than the average student citywide - there is someone who can drive the student if they miss the latin bus etc.). replicating the school in a different location made a lot of sense and close-in eotr might have been especially great. simply expanding is okay but its a significant pivot (somewhat curious if they might feed the cooper students into the current high school or let some high school students take certain classes specially on the other campus or more generally what the thinking is). they had to buy not lease the kirov building?

[Anonymous]

There was a (HUGE) Latin open house tonight at the original campus. The noted the new building, stumbled over the equal access (which is only for 5th at the original campus) and played a tone deaf video for the first seven minutes that they must have paid a lot of money to produce. It almost seemed like it was aimed at recruiting teachers/staff?

The youth ambassadors and tours were much better than the tone deaf general session. 5th graders want to know about friendship and how the day goes (no one talked about the alternating schedules) and not about pedagogy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is the Kirov building going to host MS, HS, or both?

Both plus some space for Yu Ying.

Thanks!
How hard is enrollment at HS from other MSs?

Latin said tonight they expect to take 15 9th graders.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There was a (HUGE) Latin open house tonight at the original campus. The noted the new building, stumbled over the equal access (which is only for 5th at the original campus) and played a tone deaf video for the first seven minutes that they must have paid a lot of money to produce. It almost seemed like it was aimed at recruiting teachers/staff?

The youth ambassadors and tours were much better than the tone deaf general session. 5th graders want to know about friendship and how the day goes (no one talked about the alternating schedules) and not about pedagogy.

What was "tone deaf" about it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Just so I understand your position here, an in demand school (one of the best in the city) that excels at educating the vast majority kids attending but struggles with at-risk kids like every other school on earth should not be permitted to expand to meet pent up demand unless and until it solves a heretofore unsolvable societal problem? And you think calling BS on the woke-tastic view makes me a "resource hoarder"?

The PP you're responding to: Curious, what makes Latin students excel?

NP. Can' help but notice you didn't address the question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There was a (HUGE) Latin open house tonight at the original campus. The noted the new building, stumbled over the equal access (which is only for 5th at the original campus) and played a tone deaf video for the first seven minutes that they must have paid a lot of money to produce. It almost seemed like it was aimed at recruiting teachers/staff?

The youth ambassadors and tours were much better than the tone deaf general session. 5th graders want to know about friendship and how the day goes (no one talked about the alternating schedules) and not about pedagogy.

What was "tone deaf" about it?

To quote from the video "The students are secondary. We want them to love the content as much as we do. That love comes first"