Latin Cooper

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Anonymous wrote:i think a lot of white liberals simply dont talk all that much with their children about race or socioeconomic status. but kids notice and lacking better information are at some risk of inventing their own ignorant or incorrect explanations for things. they also pick up on conversations about the local eotp feeder middle school being perceived as not very good etc. (which lots of latin families have likely had at home)

This is what PP said: "When White affluent kids made flip anti-immigrant, sexist, anti-Black, or anti-semitic comments (yup my DD heard it all on a regular basis"

Are you really buying that is happening on a regular basis?

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No, not with 5th and 6th graders anyway.

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idk im not convinced the pp was a troll. middle schoolers are insecure and mean sometimes. it would only take a couple bad seeds in a class where the other kids dont really stand up to and ostracize them.

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A bunch of white kids from Washington, DC -a 99.9 percent liberal city--attending a public charter school new start up campus has GOT to be the wokest crowd around. This just doesn't fly that anti -everybody comments are flying off their lips .

You've got no idea. Latin is not woke.

I'm a Latin parent and I would agree that Latin is not "woke" in the fashionable GDS-type way. They grapple with the tough issues of class and race and do it in an educational environment that uses history and the classics to give context and meaning to the current times. Being DC, as PP says, the student body is largely ultra liberal, but the school is so diverse in so many ways that there isn't a dominant "woke" ideology or anything like that.

Coming from super liberal DC families for the most part, raised that way since birth, it's hard to imagine the white Latin Cooper kids making flip "anti- comments" right and left as PP stated. Even if they were the Alex Keaton of the family, it is VERY unlikely that non-stop derogatory othering comments would be an innate, flip thing. Why the heck would they attend/their parents send them to a diverse public charter school in DC if they were so staunchly anti-whatever and so clueless as to advertise it widely. It just doesn't add up.

I read so many prejudiced comments (mostly subtle, but some blatant) from parents on this very board DCPS board. It’s not hard for me to believe their kids have similar views.

I will say I went to a virtual open house last year and asked how the school managed the classic approach with the realities of our current world, and if non-Classical (ie, Europe, MENA) literature, etc were included... they didn't answer my question.

It's only been a few months at Cooper, but yes, non-Classical literature has definitely been included. The summer reading book took place in India and New Zealand. They read a book about Afghanistan and one with Black characters. But also the Iliad (in graphic novel format). And I don't think Latin is any more relevant to White kids than it is to Black kids. The only kids benefiting are the Spanish-speaking kids, because they are realizing just how close to Spanish Latin is. (It's about 3/4 legible to me.)

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These are fifth and sixth graders. They are pushing boundaries, saying nonsense stuff they overheard on YouTube, or misheard. And I think they also don't get that the rules are different for White kids, in terms of what they can get away with saying (for good reason, but I don't think they get it).

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A bunch of white kids from Washington, DC -a 99.9 percent liberal city--attending a public charter school new start up campus has GOT to be the wokest crowd around. This just doesn't fly that anti -everybody comments are flying off their lips .

You've got no idea. Latin is not woke.

I'm a Latin parent and I would agree that Latin is not "woke" in the fashionable GDS-type way. They grapple with the tough issues of class and race and do it in an educational environment that uses history and the classics to give context and meaning to the current times. Being DC, as PP says, the student body is largely ultra liberal, but the school is so diverse in so many ways that there isn't a dominant "woke" ideology or anything like that.

Coming from super liberal DC families for the most part, raised that way since birth, it's hard to imagine the white Latin Cooper kids making flip "anti- comments" right and left as PP stated. Even if they were the Alex Keaton of the family, it is VERY unlikely that non-stop derogatory othering comments would be an innate, flip thing. Why the heck would they attend/their parents send them to a diverse public charter school in DC if they were so staunchly anti-whatever and so clueless as to advertise it widely. It just doesn't add up.

I read so many prejudiced comments (mostly subtle, but some blatant) from parents on this very board DCPS board. It’s not hard for me to believe their kids have similar views.

I will say I went to a virtual open house last year and asked how the school managed the classic approach with the realities of our current world, and if non-Classical (ie, Europe, MENA) literature, etc were included... they didn't answer my question.

They may have flubbed the answer to your question at the open house, but your concern is definitely something the schools gives a lot of thought to. Looks like their new tag line is A Classical Education for the Modern World - a purposeful tension. There is a whole video about it on this page.

https://latinpcs.org/latin-way-2/

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A bunch of white kids from Washington, DC -a 99.9 percent liberal city--attending a public charter school new start up campus has GOT to be the wokest crowd around. This just doesn't fly that anti -everybody comments are flying off their lips .

You've got no idea. Latin is not woke.

I'm a Latin parent and I would agree that Latin is not "woke" in the fashionable GDS-type way. They grapple with the tough issues of class and race and do it in an educational environment that uses history and the classics to give context and meaning to the current times. Being DC, as PP says, the student body is largely ultra liberal, but the school is so diverse in so many ways that there isn't a dominant "woke" ideology or anything like that.

Coming from super liberal DC families for the most part, raised that way since birth, it's hard to imagine the white Latin Cooper kids making flip "anti- comments" right and left as PP stated. Even if they were the Alex Keaton of the family, it is VERY unlikely that non-stop derogatory othering comments would be an innate, flip thing. Why the heck would they attend/their parents send them to a diverse public charter school in DC if they were so staunchly anti-whatever and so clueless as to advertise it widely. It just doesn't add up.

I read so many prejudiced comments (mostly subtle, but some blatant) from parents on this very board DCPS board. It’s not hard for me to believe their kids have similar views.

I will say I went to a virtual open house last year and asked how the school managed the classic approach with the realities of our current world, and if non-Classical (ie, Europe, MENA) literature, etc were included... they didn't answer my question.

They may have flubbed the answer to your question at the open house, but your concern is definitely something the schools gives a lot of thought to. Looks like their new tag line is A Classical Education for the Modern World - a purposeful tension. There is a whole video about it on this page.

https://latinpcs.org/latin-way-2/

I haven't watched the video, but there are many arguments for continuing to teach the liberal arts. I'm guessing this is in line with that. Science wasn't great for us at Latin and could have been as part opf a classical education--they could have done more collabs with area colleges evem (like Walls). But they should never abandon their strengths --classical education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These are fifth and sixth graders. They are pushing boundaries, saying nonsense stuff they overheard on YouTube, or misheard. And I think they also don't get that the rules are different for White kids, in terms of what they can get away with saying (for good reason, but I don't think they get it).

I find it amusing that the same people who argue against removing disruptive kids from class or enforcing minimum academic standards for advancement are so very quick to indict preteens and teens for violations of unwritten speech rules. I guess the sympathy for kids and insistence that they be allowed to grow extends only to the ones creating daily disruptive environments or physical harm to others?

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Cooper just had parent/teacher conferences on Monday and Tuesday, and every teacher really knew my kid and had feedback that meshed very well with what I'm seeing. Not every teacher is perfect, but overall I was very impressed.