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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not a charter supporter but is it really fair to blame Latin for the achievement gap at their school?  By the time these kids get to middle and high school it's too late. Shouldn't it be the job of the elementary schools to make sure students are ready for middle school?[/quote]

Yes, it is fair. No one is proposing closing the existing Latin. The question was whether the city should fund a NEW Latin, likely EOTR, because the Latin Board felt a moral imperative to serve more students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

1) WL isn't being singled out. All schools that start at 5th or 6th are also held accountable for disparities in outcomes between different groups.

2) WL has WIDE achievement gap problems with kids who are NOT at risk or ELLs, but simply of a different racial or ethnic group.

3) WL was asking to expand to bring more at-risk students into its LEA. But if they don't have a good record of serving at-risk or minority students particularly well... what is the point?

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