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[quote=Anonymous]^ Mostly nonsense.   We've been a Cluster family through 4th, are now a Latin family, and may well become a Basis family next year.

DC1 is in 8th grade at Latin and we're not planning to stay for hs mainly because almost all her friends, mostly high-SES kids, will be leaving for privates, the burbs, and Wilson after this year.  The PP above is just offering another sweep-the-issues under the rug argument in a city where white is a proxy for upper-middle-class.  It's true that the social issues are almost never addressed.  Open lottery admissions and ghetto mindsets continue to scare away many of the very parents who would rally to make a school great, not merely good, as Latin is.

From where I sit, the crux of the problem is that far too many of the charter founders, administrators and instructors have drunk the Koolaid that tells them that poor AA kids don't need upper-middle-class classmates (overwhelmingly white in DC) to succeed in middle school, high school and college.   As an AA parent who grew up poor, I reject this notion wholeheartedly.   Middle-class peers at my NYC test-in magnets were the people who opened my world, by inviting me to museums with their families on weekends, sailing trips, camping trips and so on.  Just showing me pictures of their summer camps and trips abroad gave me a yen to want to join them and, when I couldn't, to ensure that, one day, my own children could.

Duck the critical issues and get the same mediocre result over and over, even at Basis.  You should care.  We, the lucky AA few, vote with our feet to offer you evidence.  Sigh.

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