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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So it's not worth bothering to aim high, even for low SES students who qualify for massive fi aid at the nation's best universities if they are admitted?  I was a first-generation college student at MIT.  My family would have paid several times what my alma mater charged us for me to attend a big state school.

I'm not bowled over by Latin's academics for a STEM oriented 11-year-old who reads around 2 years above grade level. Sounds like we'd have headaches there pushing for appropriate math and ELA instruction, causing offense for asking for more challenge.  We hire enough enrichment tutors as it, since she's become quite bored at our neighborhood DCPS.  But Latin does seem like a good option for families with kids who work at grade level, aren't very interested in STEM, and don't have much background in modern languages.[/quote]

You won’t cause offense asking for more challenge. The teachers in her science, math and English classes will likely be delighted to add some enrichment and higher-level challenge to her daily work. [/quote]

I'm not the poster you're responding to, but I doubt this.  If asking for more challenge for an advanced middle school student wouldn't cause offense at Latin, what explains why the school places kids who work far behind grade level in the very same science, social studies and English classes as the most advanced students from 5th-8th grades? Why not just form classes of advanced middle school science and humanities students like they're willing to do for advanced math students?[/quote]

There are so many terrible people on this thread. I hope I don’t know any of you in real life. You sound so small. [/quote]

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