Charter schools have a strong attraction for middle class families...good read
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Anonymous
| Latin watered their program down, to accommodate lower-performing kids, and that's what's now led to their attrition problem with the better-off kids. |
Anonymous
| Things change quickly and your information on Latin is old. But if you would like to dig in and be left in the dust, be my guest! |
Anonymous
| Our child is in Latin's HS. The curriculum is exciting and the teachers are ridiculously smart and motivated. Child receives scrupulous attention. Opportunities abound. HS Latin students made a great showing in last year's city-wide Science Fair; another outstanding student just won a critical language scholarship overseas. We are very happy our child elected to stay on, and looking forward to personalized college counseling down the road. Thanks. |
Anonymous
| I heard Latin recently got a big influx of kids who were far behind, and a lot of troublemakers... If that's no longer the situation, how did they deal with it? |
Anonymous
I think you have been provided with faulty information. Come by the school and see for yourself. |
Anonymous
Latin has "one of the highest attendance and re-enrollment rates" according to the Mayor's press conference attending now: http://www.dcpubliccharter.com/News-Room.aspx?ID=307 |
Anonymous
Latin's upper school had the highest Performance Management Framework score of all four Tier 1 high schools and highest graduation rate of any charter high school. |
Anonymous
| What's their college acceptance rate? |
Anonymous
100% in four-year colleges with 5m+ in scholarships. |
Anonymous
Lisa Gartner from the Washington Examiner education beat highlights Latin's on-time graduation rate. http://washingtonexaminer.com/dcps-graduation-rate-up-slightly-but-well-short-of-goals/article/2513028#.UJzpYXy9KSM |
Anonymous
Yes but no 5-star schools yet like Ivies, top liberal arts colleges e.g. Pamona, Amherst, military academies or top technical schools like MIT. They shoot for small 2nd and 3rd tier liberal arts colleges and area state schools, not every parent's cup of tea. |
Anonymous
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PP, your shallow!
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Anonymous
Every parent who has her heart dead-set on choosing her child's academic career at an Ivy, and is unable to pay for the private school she really wants, would be much happier in the suburbs than in DC. Montgomery County awaits you, sweetheart. They do have nice car dealerships and steak houses out there, I'm told. |
Anonymous
| +1. High standards are nice and all, but really!! This is Latin's first graduating class EVER. It is a major accomplishment for a brand new charter school. Just hang on and see what evolves. or get the to the suburbs. Whatever. |
Anonymous
| +1 more. Getting that amount of scholarship money and college acceptances for the first ever graduating class speaks of enormous dedication on behalf of the administration and faculty. Latin's head came from NCS---she knows how the college game works and I bet those stats only improve going forward. |