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[quote=Anonymous]Hi PPs, original poster, back again.  You Latin parents make a compelling case for challenge at your school.  Thanks for the list of test questions - most illuminating.  My problem with Latin right now is that my Chinese immigrant spouse had a bad reaction to seeing the new location/neighborhood. No doubt Randolph School will look far more inviting once renovated. We also weren't sold on the demographics of the high school - we didn't see any Asian kids among the upperclassmen/women when we visited.  Then we visited Blair's math magnet in Silver Spring, where nearly half the kids are of Asian descent.  You see the problem I'm having here. I'm the pro stay-in-DC parent while my spouse seems to think it's all a lost cause, mainly over concerns about high school quality  (moving for middle school only to have to move again, or making radical career changes to afford privates later, although we like our jobs).

If Latin's curriculum does indeed offer great depth and breadth, and there are so many strong students, as you say, why are nearly 1/4 of the middle school  kids failing to test proficient on the DC-CAS? And why no middle school honors classes, other than 7th grade algebra (is that right?), when this is the case?  How much of an issue is social promotion?

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