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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Both Latins and BASIS cleared (or within 1, cleared) their EA lists. I would like to hear from those people on DCUM who complained that the paltry # of EA seats offered by those schools was proof that they weren't serious about supporting at risk populations. Seems like maybe those schools knew more about their admitted and projected demos than DCUM whiners who like to sit in the corner and throw stones from the cheap seats.  [/quote]

Or maybe it shows they need to make a more concerted effort to recruit at risk populations rather than set a performatively low number of set aside seats to make DCPCSB ok with them backing away on their commitment to put a second campus east of the river.[/quote]

No one [b]committed[/b] to putting a second campus east of the river. Latin didn't. BASIS didn't. When faced with logic and facts you fall back on tropes and fiction. The argument for EA is not what your shifting reasoning purports it to be. The argument is that there is more of a need for at risk kids to get quality seats than for kids who are not at risk so they should have a better chance. By setting aside seats dedicated to this population there are seats available for at risk kids who want them (or, at a minimum, a better chance).

The data tells us a story you don't like so you pivot to some weird argument that this shows Latin and BASIS aren't doing enough. Both advertise and to info sessions in underserved areas. My School DC markets the heck out of the lottery. At what point can we stop blaming individual charter schools for not solving all of public education? You confuse "at risk" with stupid, lazy or unmotivated. That's pretty offensive. If the demand is not there then maybe the demand is not there for at risk kids?  [/quote]

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