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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Washington Latins "model", Boston Latin, is a test in school. Since WL is not, there has been a tension in its mission/vision since it's inception. This is not new. It's the plus and minus of being far more equitable (in one way - lottery based with weighted preferences that are not academic) than BL. If you disagree with that, you would need to change its structure to test in - like a Walls, Ellington, Banneker, TJ or Boston Latin.  It is what it is. [/quote]

I don't agree. This view of how Washington Latin must work--shared by the program's leadership-- is a cop out. Latin's leadership and teachers could offer far more rigor to the most advanced students.  At BASIS, another DC charter school, seniors can't graduate unless they've passed at least half a dozen AP exams.

For example,[b] admins won't permit 5th and 6th graders to take languages other than Latin, although a good many come in from DC public school language immersion programs for Spanish, Chinese and French. Some of the UMC parents of language immersion graduates team up to hire pricey tutors to help kids retain language skills, meaning that it's mostly the former low SES language immersion students at Latin who lose their skills.[/b]   This policy could easily be changed.  Also, math is tracked at Latin in middle school, but not humanities subjects, another policy that could be changed.  Social promotion could also be jettisoned to help support more advanced academics.[/quote]

I AM SOOOO sick of this complaint (for both Latin and Basis). You chose a school with a specialty -- which has its own middle/high school where your kid can continue that specialty. Asking other schools with other curriculums to bend because of your preferences is insane. Because its not like they would just have to offer these special languages starting in 5th -- they would have to offer them with a breadth of levels to satisfy the desire of these parents. So no only would Latin have to have Spanish/French/Chinese/Hebrew classes, but they would also have to provide a wide range of levels for kids. All because parents liked one specialized school and now wants to make another specialized school accomodate them. Just stop it. [/quote]

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