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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Charters are to provide choices to families. No their sole purpose isn’t to serve low income kids. If anything they donworse for those kids because of fewer resources, underpaid and inexperienced teachers who leave after 2 years. [/quote]

Agreed charters should serve the kids who attend.  Seems like this school is[b] struggling on that end for a notable number of students[/b].[/quote]

Yes, because almost every school in the country with a good cohort of low-SES students struggles on that end for goodness sake, even in test-in GT programs. That's the face of multi-generational poverty in this country in this century.  If schools alone could fix the underlying problems, they would have been addressed a century ago.

Latin can't serve both high and low SES students as a boot camp programs for poor minorities like KIPP and DC Prep.  The high SES families don't enroll in those programs past ECE.  Scores on the silly PARCC obviously shouldn't be the only measure of success.  The low SES WL kids clearly gain from having high SES classmates.  I know this because I was a low SES minority kid who was able to cope at my elite college mainly because I had many high SES classmates in middle and high school.  They taught me almost as much as I learned academically.

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Latin is struggling with low-SES students and also with AA students who are not low-SES.  I get that it's a challenging thing to do well.  But this is not a persuasive rationale for expanding EOTR.[/quote]

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