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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Basis and Latin both definitely draw kids from all over the city but they do not attract/enroll a lot of at-risk kids.  Latin now has 20 equitable access lottery seats which is great but it barely fills them (think the waitlist at 2nd Street is 0 for those seats).

I think the charters originally started in 5th so people would try the school no risk.  It is probably water under the bridge because they are not changing the entry year now.  But I think the complaint is a little more how it feels for a 5th grader to stay behind if many of their friends are leaving (and saying its to avoid the in-bound they were all talking about attending together back in 3rd grade etc.)[/quote]

You are naive,  Families will say they are planning on attending their IB middle school while secretly playing the lottery AND having an exit plan if that doesn’t work out all along.[/quote]

Agree. The same % will leave for charters in 6th as they do now for 5th. The only impact is really on the 5th grades getting hollowed out. This became a problem in our ES when the school decided to admit a lot of OOB at 5th and those kids had a lot of behavioral issues. Previously there was just a really small 5th. [/quote]

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