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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There has been A LOT of discussion about Latin not serving at-risk kids, but what I am looking at seems to show that Latin is not able to educate brown kids who are NOT at risk. In other words, Latin is NOT working for black and brown kids who are middle class. WTF? This is what needs to be looked at. Why are the black kids at Latin who are MIDDLE CLASS and UMC not benefiting from this school that is supposedly so great? How could we even consider letting Latin try to educate at-risk kids when they are FAILING kids of color who have advantages and educated parents? DC makes no sense - and Latin’s record is making no sense.[/quote]

This.  What the heck is going on here and why are Latin parents okay with it?[/quote]

Come on, AA students don't perform as well collectively as white students across socioeconomic strata.  This outcome has been proven in study after study for over half a century.  It's worth remembering that blacks are still fairly new to the middle class as a group (generally only in their second or third generation). They're still catching up to whites on various measures of academic achievement, prosperity and health.[/quote]

This is true, but why is the gap narrower at other non- Title 1 schools in the city?[/quote]

PARCC scores don't begin to tell the whole story. Latin doesn't prep kids obsessively for PARCC like KIPP, DC Prep and other programs. It also doesn't grind them down with an unhealthy amount of homework and test pressure in MS like BASIS.[/quote]

PARCC scores ARE the main story here (so are discipline practices and successful outreach to get a more diverse student body).

You don’t care about PARCC. But every charter signs a contract that says it will be judged by the PMF, which is significantly compromised of PARCC data. WL does fine on the PMF when it uses averages; but its achievement gap is persistently larger than other Tier 1 schools.

They will need to change that or convert to a private school. [/quote]

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