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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Black and Latinx kids I know who lotteried into Latin fell into two camps.

Those from high SES  who left because they got into private schools.

Those from low SES who were counseled out/flunked out/'encouraged' to leave, or got scholarships to private schools.

The story's the same at every charter in DC that attracts the affluent. DCI will get there too, it's already happening.

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This makes no sense because Latin's MS is 36.6% black and hispanic, and the HS is 55.1% black and hispanic, so kids from this demographic are not leaving for privates or flunking out in large numbers.

DCI is 40% Hispanic, 30% black, and less than 20% white. Given that DCI's Spanish-language feeders tend to have higher percentages of hispanic students than other public schools, and that DCI offers more seats for Spanish than any other language, it's hard to imagine the percent of hispanic students dropping, and I don't really understand why you would predict they would?

There are enough real issues in DC public schools that we don't have to invent weird conspiracy theories like this.[/quote]

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