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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Latin can teach all the Spanish it wants without altering the reality that white and AA EotP UMC families (who aren't standard bearers for Latino culture) flood Latin with applications every year.  Latino families do not.

The arrangement leads to the admission of predominantly UMC and increasingly white student body. The parents of these kids are only too happy to pay for a private bus service from their EotP neighborhoods to the school.

As long as DCPS continues to dig in its heels in opposition to most forms of academic tracking at neighborhood middle schools EotP, and won't take bold steps to improve order and discipline either, nothing will change.

In effect, Latin is being held accountable for public school system failures beyond its control.[/quote]

As long as Latin continues to allow sibling preference, nothing will change.[/quote]

Latin could choose to backfill mid-year and for upper grades.  The fact thay they continue to choose not to shows that they do not actually want more at-risk kids.[/quote]

They have lost, at most, a total of 4 students from the HS the last few years and 1 from the MS. Backfilling will not change much, and given who applies, is more likely to result in another white student getting in.[/quote]

Should be no big deal to do it, then.

Diverse by design means you keep trying until you figure out a plan that brings in diversity.  Create special programs, lobby for a lottery exception, do whatever it takes within the law to get results.  Latin just shrugs and blames the lottery, bussing in kids from high-incone areas all the while.  [/quote]

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