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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There was a (HUGE) Latin open house tonight at the original campus.  The noted the new building, stumbled over the equal access (which is only for 5th at the original campus) and played a tone deaf video for the first seven minutes that they must have paid a lot of money to produce.  It almost seemed like it was aimed at recruiting teachers/staff?

The youth ambassadors and tours were much better than the tone deaf general session. 5th graders want to know about friendship and how the day goes (no one talked about the alternating schedules) and not about pedagogy.[/quote]

What was "tone deaf" about it?[/quote]

To quote from the video "The students are secondary.  We want them to love the content as much as we do.  That love comes first"
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I went to the open house tonight and it was disappointing.  We don’t know much about Latin but was not impressed with the presentation at all. 
 
They used a few buzzwords without really get into the detail of the curriculum.  In fact, a parent specifically asked about the curriculum and the curriculum director gave some BS ambiguous response.  Not helpful.

Someone asked about a book reading list and there is none.  Teachers assign what they want.

Someone asked about advanced world languages for middle and instead of saying none, gave some ambiguous response that I don’t remember the specifics

No sports for 5th grade, very limited for 6th

Not much useful information obtained and the facilities are disappointing. I don’t really understand what the appeal is.

[/quote] The appeal of Latin is that Stuart Hobson, Eliot Hine and Jefferson Academy don't appeal to many in-boundary. Latin is loaded with Ward 6 families.  The appeal is that BASIS has a long waiting list and weak permanent facilities, subjects kids to relentless test pressure and won't let them study languages before 8th grade. The appeal is that DCI takes over an hour to reach by public transportation from the Hill and really only teaches languages well (science, math, writing disappointing). [/quote]

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