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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why bother to widen the net when there's rising demand for Latin's brand of education among a growing group of middle-class families. Who wins when high SES DC parents flee the District for lack of decent public middle and high schools?

The inconvenient truth is that poor minority kids who study Chinese in public schools tend not to get enough Chinese or English, absent inputs DCPCS isn't providing. Their families can't afford to reinforce Chinese at home with au pairs, tutors, camps etc.  They also can't afford to provide extra ELA inputs. In MoCo, the 2 Chinese ES immersion programs send poor kids to summer immersion camps free of charge. YuYing does not.

Poor kids in Ward 7 and 8 are probably better off staying close to home for their schooling, as long as they attend a well-run charter.  Call me names if you have the energy, but I'm not wrong.[/quote]

I agree with this as someone whose child is at a DCPS with a lot of students from Wards 7 and 8. I don't think the goal here is language immersion and parroting the values of UMC professionals in DC. Schools that cater to that demographic don't always do a great job of serving the needs of working and middle class families. I'd love it if we could do more enrichment at our school, and we are working on it. But I wouldn't start with language immersion. We focus on additional after school programming in both academic and extra-curricular subjects, more visual and performing arts opportunities, and more sports and fitness, including non-competitive fitness pursuits like yoga and dance. We also have a Spanish special in all grades, and we have families who are native Spanish speakers. But it doesn't make sense to center that with a diverse population that has far more complex needs than the average UMC family in NW or Brookland.

It's honestly a very tone deaf approach to think that what poor people in this city need is more of what UMC white people have been demanding for years.

I do want more and better HS options for kids EotR, as well as, honestly the East side of town WotR. I think a Latin campus in NE is a start, but we need more, more, more. BASIS should expand as well and we need to figure out what to do about Eastern. The attitude that only white people from Brookland or CH will take advantage of these options is ridiculous. Families EotR are ready and willing to send kids to centrally located schools. These schools need to be easy to get to via public transportation, and very importantly, need to gear their programming towards the needs of these kids. I am still hopeful that Latin Cooper will do that.

YY I could care less about. It's just not relevant to this population.[/quote]

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