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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And then there is former head of school Diana Smith’s response to that question which I think is thoughtful and hugely relevant.

Test scores in 10th grade for at-risk students important.  But graduation rates, holistic development and solid preparation for what comes after graduation is even more important for at-risk students.  Latin has a stellar graduation rate, college acceptance rate and millions of dollars in scholarship money awarded to its students—all of them.

5                 MS. SMITH:  Yeah.  I just wanted to
 6     add something.
 7                 Mr. Cruz, in your opening comments,
 8     which I thought were articulated and well said,
 9     you mentioned the ends and goals of an education
10     being achievement and also well rounded, happy,
11     productive people.
12                 I think sometimes those two are not
13     united.  We look at them as separate, and it's
14     important to understand about our model that deep
15     in the classical tradition is a sense of the
16     autonomous self, and we learned long ago in
17     education that if you narrow the task and up the
18     rewards that you can get human beings to do
19     almost anything, but the really important thing
20     is what is the human being choosing to be able
21     to?
22                 And that takes more time.  That takes
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     1     more time to develop.  I'm not disparaging the
 2     task or the notion of achievement, but they have
 3     to happen in an atmosphere in which there is
 4     self-development and inner motivation, as well as
 5     certain kinds of extrinsic motivation.
 6                 MS. SMITH:  And what we have found is
 7     that even with at-risk students, a lot of our
 8     student who are with us, they've been able to
 9     perform.  As we look at sort of outcomes, as we
10     look at what they're choosing to do when they
11     finish their high school careers.
12                 Some of those numbers that might not
13     have looked as strong as grades when they were in
14     fifth or sixth or seventh grade on PARCC tests
15     actually don't mean as much, when you think about
16     their choices are being made for their futures.[/quote]

This is a very nice comment, but DCUM would be quick to label it a pitiful excuse coming from any Title 1 school’s admin.[/quote]

Maybe if a Title 1 admin could back it up with college/military/trade school acceptances and legit transcripts, it wouldn’t be considered an excuse.[/quote]

You won’t find PARCC-centric pep rallies of at-risk students at Latin, but you’ll find sincerely dedicated and passionate adults giving all they’ve got to bring out the best they can in each and every student.[/quote]

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