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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Latin II would be asking for a great deal of trouble in locating from Brookland to Ward 7 or 8 a few years in. They'd risk having most of the families on board failing to follow Latin across the river. The leadership needs the enrollment continuity and stakeholder buy-in to succeed and knows it. They're not going to want awkward press related to dozens, perhaps scores, of "racist" and "elitist" UMC families, along with low SES minority families who can't handle a major commute change, dropping out over a move Across the River. I wager that they pick a permanent location within a couple miles of the temp location.[/quote]

That has been their stated plan since they announced the expansion. It’s not exactly a bait and switch if parents just aren’t paying attention.[/quote]

[b]And the program is not a success if many, if not most, of the anchor families drop out.  [/b]Simply put, Latin Cooper is going to need decent test scores to thrive.

The home-grown charter has no history of Saturday school, extended day, year-round school, or the militancy of KIPP, SEED and DC Prep. In effect, the Latin model relies on a large cohort of UMC students to buoy needy kids academically. In the last analysis, they're going to think twice about a permanent location across the river.
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Your reply is nonsensical.

PP to whom you replied was responding to someone who said families would flee due to a bait and switch if Latin moved. Their (correct) observation was that there was no bait and switch and that every family knows or should know that the school will move and that (presumably) that is factored in and they are willing to move with the school. In fact it would make no sense for a family to do 3 years at a marginal temp facility and then bail once they move to (what I assume will be) a lovely, shiny new facility with all the Latin-esque amenities.

To which you replied that the program will not be a success if anchor families drop out. A position not remotely in opposition to what anyone has argued, anywhere, ever. It also ignores the substance of the post to which you replied that made the case that they were unlikely to drop out based on Latin moving precisely because [i]they entered knowing Latin would be moving.[/i]   [/quote]

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