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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a Latin parent, and I think Martha's comments are a joke - a sad one.  She's either trying to fool us or she is fooling herself.

Latin set the bar for how to subtly tilt the playing field and cherry pick students from higher-income areas.   Remember - they started in Ward 3 in a part of town that was utterly inaccessible by mass transit.   They remain difficult to get to by mass transit and car.  They recruit heavily (via PTA meetings, shadow days, etc.) at schools like Stoddert, Hyde, Mann, etc., while all but ignoring low-income schools in Wards 7 and 8.  They run buses from Glover Park, the Hill, and Tenleytown, and just now got around to running a bus from Anacostia.   There are a bunch of small things - but they add up to a Latin student body that is not representative of the DCPS student body, and that does not do enough to welcome kids that are poor, non-English speaking, and from low income neighborhoods.

Have an honest conversation with most Latin parents - if you can get the truth out of them,  they will tell you that the whole reason they sent their kids  to Latin was to get away from poor kids.[/quote]

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