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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With it being increasingly difficult to get into Latin or BASIS, and with increased demand as more UMC families hit middle school, and with all the uncertainty around selective high school admissions, it seems like there would be a lot of interest in a new charter middle and/or high school whose value prop was differentiation/advanced classes. I know there's Latin Cooper. But are there not more attempts at this because they wouldn't get approved, or because it's very difficult to get the real estate, or something else? Thank you. [/quote]

Do those schools actually provide tracking/advanced classes? Or is it just that their school population is self-selective and primarily UMC, with all the benefits that come from that?  DCI has a level of tracking in math and languages (but it is not a G&T set-up at all), but it doesn't apply across the whole curriculum.  [/quote]

Both Latin and BASIS are successfully providing advanced math coursework to middle schoolers beyond algebra in a way that you're not getting at most DCPS middle schools, where there's not a strong enough cohort of students to even have that with algebra. Their student populations allow them to do this. Outside of math, I would guess that the major benefit, at least during middle school, is the self-selection. [/quote]

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