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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are a minority do you want your kid to go to a school where minorities and at-risk kids don't perform well AND are disciplined at a much higher rate?

What does it say when the buses from wealthy neighborhoods have significantly more stops than ones from EOTR?

If you are Latino, how do you feel about a school that doesn't even offer Spanish as a foreign language option (in addition to Latin)? Note - this is going to change but not sure when.

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Buses?  No idea what you're talking about.

Give us a break, urban public schools don't have to be the be and end all to families to be good schools.  Most of us are just glad to access a decent DC public school to help us stay in the City.  We're not white and no public school in the City teaches the language we speak, read and write at home.  We speak, read and write the language well anyway.  I'd be thrilled if my rising 4th grader gets a winning lottery spot at either Latin campus in the spring.
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Latin has buses from certain neighborhoods.  Surprise, not from low-income areas.  Almost as if they would rather have the higher income kids.[/quote]

Latin has bus service that transports students EOTR, Capital Hill and WOTP. Families who qualify for free and reduced meals can ride for free. The PCSB's concern is the ones in low-income areas has fewer stops than in the comparably wealthier areas, again putting up a potential barrier to enrollment for students that have to travel further to catch one (and then have a very long ride to school). Latin has agreed to add more stops. [/quote]

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