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A bunch of white kids from Washington, DC -a 99.9 percent liberal city--attending a public charter school new start up campus has GOT to be the wokest crowd around. This just doesn't fly that anti -everybody comments are flying off their lips .[/quote]

You've got no idea. Latin is not woke.[/quote]

I'm a Latin parent and I would agree that Latin is not "woke" in the fashionable GDS-type way. They grapple with the tough issues of class and race and do it in an educational environment that uses history and the classics to give context and meaning to the current times. Being DC, as PP says, the student body is largely ultra liberal, but the school is so diverse in so many ways that there isn't a dominant "woke" ideology or anything like that.[/quote]

Coming from super liberal DC families for the most part, raised that way since birth, it's hard to imagine the white Latin Cooper kids making flip "anti- comments" right and left as PP stated. Even if they were the Alex Keaton of the family, it is VERY unlikely that non-stop derogatory othering comments would be an innate, flip thing. Why the heck would they attend/their parents send them to a diverse public charter school in DC if they were so staunchly anti-whatever and so clueless as to advertise it widely. It just doesn't add up.[/quote]

I read so many prejudiced comments (mostly subtle, but some blatant) from parents on this very board DCPS board. It’s not hard for me to believe their kids have similar views. [/quote]

I will say I went to a virtual open house last year and asked how the school managed the classic approach with the realities of our current world, and if non-Classical (ie, Europe, MENA) literature, etc were included... they didn't answer my question.[/quote]

They may have flubbed the answer to your question at the open house, but your concern is definitely something the schools gives a lot of thought to.  Looks like their new tag line is A Classical Education for the Modern World - a purposeful tension. There is a whole video about it on this page.

https://latinpcs.org/latin-way-2/[/quote]

I haven't watched the video, but there are many arguments for continuing to teach the liberal arts. I'm guessing this is in line with that. Science wasn't great for us at Latin and could have been as part opf a classical education--they could have done more collabs with area colleges evem (like Walls). But they should never abandon their strengths --classical education.[/quote]

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