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[quote=Anonymous]They leave for a number of reasons.  1.  Some parents are going to send their child to private regardless of the current school.  They KNOW long before MS which private they are sending their child to.  2.  Some students are great athletes and get recruited to a private school.  I don't think it's anything against Latin, it's just faced with 4 year bball (or some other sport) scholarship where the child may be be seen by scouts, etc, most parents will jump at that opportunity for their child. (So out of a class of 70, that will take about 15-20 of the students) 3.  Then there are the application schools (Walls, Ellington, Banneker, McKinley).  For a student that is "into" the Arts, applying to Ellington is a no-brainer (maybe 1-2 students), Walls has a great reputation for being an excellent academic school and more importantly for most parents ALL the students are high achievers.  Talk about pressure on the student, but that is what parents want.  Latin WILL NEVER be that type of school as long as the charter is set up the way it is and that is fine with me.  Latin loses most of it's 8th graders to Walls, but that is not saying that the HS isn't a good school.  If a student is in the Honors classes, they are not sitting next to a student that has "escaped" from attending a low-performing DCPS HS and are not reading/writing doing math on grade level).  They are actually getting instruction and assignments that are on the same level as Walls/Banneker/McKinley.  I have friends at each of these schools and the work is about the same.  So when you look at Latin DC-Cas scores for 10th grade, some people are astonished at the # of students that are basic or below basic (or whatever the wording is)and wonder how can Latin be considered a "great school", when the test scores are so low.  Well, what if that student came into 9th grade (not from LAtin MS)at a 6th grade reading/math level?  But by 10th grade, they may actually have improved under Latin's guidance and teaching to a 8th/9th grade level, but the DC-CAS scores are not going to show that improvement.  It's still shows as below level.  Anyway, people leave Latin between 8th and 9th because frankly, they just don't know anything about Latin HS except that it goes from being a mixed race school to predominately black HS.  They think Walls or one of the other test-in schools are better, but that doesn't mean that Latin is not just as good![/quote]

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