What do we think about Latin second campus
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Anonymous
| Advanced Placement and the College Board are SUCH a racket. Turns my stomach. $$$$$ |
Anonymous
They speak Spanish in Latin America. Duh. |
Anonymous
Not true. For example, none admitted to HYPSMC from Class of 2020. |
Anonymous
We sat for AP exams in my high school - without the APs being offered as classes. We went in for a couple prep sessions, couple of hours over a few weekends. We all got 4s and 5s. I don't recall the APs being THAT difficult if you knew the general subject area content, which we had learned in school. |
Anonymous
These are enrollments--not acceptances. Years 2016 - 2019. 3 years of enrollments. one at Harvard, one at Stanford, more than one at Yale. An open enrollment high school. These enrollments are from around 210 students. College Enrollment – Classes of 2016-2019 (Bold lettering indicates more than one student enrolled.) • Alabama A&M University • Alfred University, NY • Allegheny College, PA • Baldwin Wallace Univ., OH • Comm. Coll. of Baltimore County, MD • Barry University, FL • Bates College, ME • Beacon College, FL • Bennett Career Institute, DC • Berklee Coll. of Music, MA • Bowdoin College, ME • Bowie State Univ., MD • Brandeis University, MA • CUNY Brooklyn Coll., NY • Bucknell University, PA • Carleton College, MN • Charleston Southern Univ., SC • Clark Atlanta Univ., GA • College of William & Mary, VA • Colorado College • Cornell University, NY • Covenant College, GA • Dartmouth College, NH • Davidson College, NC • Delaware State University • Drexel University, PA • Eckerd College, FL • Fayetteville State Univ., NC • Fisk University, TN • Florida A&M University • Franklin & Marshall College, PA • George Mason Univ., VA • Goucher College, MD • Grambling State Univ., LA • Guilford College, NC • Hamilton College, NY • Hampden-Sydney Coll., VA • Hampton University, VA • Harcum College, PA • Harrisburg Univ. of Science & Technology, PA • Harvard College, MA • Haverford College, PA • Hood College, MD • Howard University, DC • Itasca Comm. College, MN • Ithaca College, NY • Johnson & Wales Univ., FL • Johnson & Wales Univ., RI • Johnson C. Smith Univ., NC • Kean University, NJ • La Salle University, PA • Laboratory Institute of Merchandising, NY • Lawrence University, WI • Lehigh University, PA • Lewis & Clark College, OR • Liberty University, VA • Louisiana State University • Loyola Univ. New Orleans • Macalester College, MN • Marshall University, WV • Marymount University, VA • McDaniel College, MD • McGill University, CN • Messiah College, PA • Miami Dade College, FL • Miami University, OH • Michigan State University • Middlebury College, VT • Montgomery College, MD • Morehouse College, GA • Morgan State Univ., MD • NYU-Abu Dhabi • NYU-Shanghai • Norfolk State Univ., VA • NC A&T State Univ. • NC Central Univ. • NC State Univ. • Northeastern Univ., MA • Northern VA Comm. Coll. • Northwestern University, IL • Oberlin College, OH • Oglethorpe University, GA • Old Dominion Univ., VA • Pace University, NY • Pennsylvania State Univ. • Pomona College, CA • Prince George’s CC, MD • Rochester Institute of Technology, NY • Saint Louis University, MO • Savannah College of Art & Design, GA • Shepherd University, WV • Southern IL. Univ.- Carbondale • Southern New Hampshire Univ. • Spelman College, GA • St. John’s College, MD • St. John’s University, NY • Stanford University, CA • SUNY Cortland, NY • Swarthmore College, PA • Syracuse University, NY • Temple University, PA • Temple University Japan • The American Univ. of Rome • The Catholic University of America, DC • The College of New Jersey • The George Washington University, DC • The Lincoln Univ. of PA • Trinity University in Washington, D.C. • Tufts University, MA • Union College, NY • US Air Force Academy • US Coast Guard • US Navy • University of Chicago, IL • Univ. of Colorado-Boulder • Univ. of the District of Columbia • Comm. College at UDC • University of Hartford, CT • University of Kansas • Univ. of MD-College Park • University of New Hampshire-Durham • UNC-Chapel Hill • UNC-Greensboro • Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA • Univ. of Rochester, NY • Univ. of San Francisco, CA • Univ. of Texas at Austin • University of Vermont • University of Washington • Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison • Virginia Tech • Virginia State University • Virginia Wesleyan College • Washington College, MD • Wesleyan University, CT • West Virginia University • Western Governors Univ., UT • Winston-Salem State Univ., NC • Wittenberg University, OH • Xavier Univ. of Louisiana • Yale University, CT • York College of Pennsylvania |
Anonymous
Anonymous
Give us a break. Homeschooling families routinely buy paperback AP prep books and have the kids learn the material. They also check out AP prep materials from public libraries or find them for cheap or free on-line. At BASIS, some students take their first AP tests, world history and/or calculus, in 8th grade. Latin doesn't tend to go extra mile on AP prep. |
Anonymous
It's a decent list, but I'm not bowled over when considering that loads of Latin students, particularly those from Ward 6, have two parents with advanced degrees from blue chip schools and professional jobs. |
Anonymous
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I can't keep straight if--according to posters here---Washington Latin is crappy and should never be allowed to open a second campus because it a) doesn't serve its at-risk population well or b) is trying to serve more at-risk students or c) doesn't serve its children-of-blue-chip-school alum well.
You all are too much 
I cannot, in the end, buy the argument that Latin is somehow undeserving of opening a second campus. By any metric, it's a good school, doing good work, in high demand with a commitment to staying diverse. DC most certainly needs more seats in schools like this. |
Anonymous
Yes, it is trying to serve more at risk students but it doesn't serve it's current at risk population very well. You can read all about it in the charter board meeting transcript when Latin applied to expand. |
Anonymous
Here we go again. You are mischaracterizing the charter board meeting concerns. A couple of the board members were concerned about the GAP in performances on the PARCC--rightly so. But they admit that Latin does far better with at-risk students than other schools in the city. Here is a direct quote: VICE CHAIR BIREDA: I think just to continue the conversation around serving our most needy kids, I just was quickly looking at your PARCC scores last year, and while of course, you far exceed where most of the city is, there is a quite large gap for your at-risk performance versus -- I mean, your highest-performing group, which is white students. MR. ANDERSON: Right. VICE CHAIR BIREDA: So it gives me pause when I think about the idea that you go to a place where you'll be serving more of those students. Can you talk to me about how you -- what your plan is to increase performance of at- risk students and to close that gap? MR. ANDERSON: Absolutely. So if you went back a couple years and looked at our at- risk students, you would notice that our proficiency rate in ELA was 39 percent at a time when the proficiency rate for at-risk student in the city was 13 percent. |
Anonymous
Anonymous
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Here is another area of concern from a board member: about the number of at-risk students in the school going down and disproportionate discipline.
It's not about "not serving at-risk students well". It is about how Latin will serve more of them in a more equitable way. MEMBER BUMBAUGH: So your school has 5 a very good reputation in this city, and I think 6 it's well earned. I have a lot of friends and 7 former student who send their children there, and 8 they're happy with your school. 9 You began to address some of the 10 issues that I want to raise, but I just feel the 11 need to state them publicly, which is -- I will 12 say personally, it gets exhausting to see the 13 highest-ranked academic schools in this city 14 consistently have among the lowest at-risk 15 populations. 16 In a city where almost 50 percent of 17 kids are at risk, your numbers are 6.8 in the 18 middle school and 16.8 in the high school. It 19 makes it easier to achieve Tier 1 status. 20 MR. ANDERSON: Sir -- 21 MEMBER BUMBAUGH: Furthermore, when I 22 look and I see that the at-risk students are (202) 234-4433 Washington DC www.nealrgross.com Neal R. Gross and Co., Inc. 42 1 being suspended at rates of 26.6 percent, it's 2 frustrating. 3 MR. ANDERSON: Yeah. 4 MEMBER BUMBAUGH: So I just want to 5 say I support a school like Washington Latin 6 being made available to more students, and 7 particularly at-risk student. I also would like 8 to say that when you come back here next year, I 9 do hope to see the suspension rates much lower 10 for at-risk students. 11 And I -- and the harder thing is, we 12 hear so many of the highly regarded academic 13 schools say they're interested in equity and 14 diversity, and we just don't see their at-risk 15 numbers move. 16 We do see the suspension rates go 17 down, which is progress, but get -- you know, 18 this -- you chose to open a school in Washington, 19 D.C., so serve the children who live here. 20 MR. ANDERSON: And actually, one of 21 the ways that we think we can do that is by 22 opening a new school. I'll tell you why. With (202) 234-4433 Washington DC www.nealrgross.com Neal R. Gross and Co., Inc. 43 1 the lottery and the sibling preference, we only 2 have 120 new spots every year, and when we have a 3 sibling preference that accounts for anywhere 4 from 30 to 45 percent of those students, it's 5 hard to move the needle. 6 And one of the ways that we're hoping 7 to do this is by changing some of our recruitment 8 methods, to try to attract even more of those at9 risk families to apply. That's one of the things 10 we're committed to, both for our current campus 11 and for a new campus. 12 So thank you. |
Anonymous
I would have left this part out pp. |
Anonymous
Why? Unlike a lot of people posting here, I'm about accuracy and understanding context. It's important that people understand what the charter board was concerned about and how Latin plans to address it. Obfuscation and boosterism is not my goal. |