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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why not expand and offer 2 or even 3 Latins, like AppleTree - multiple locations - to make the commute easier on parents and students?  [/quote]

That sounds great in principle, but the reality is that because neighborhoods are not diverse, the multiple Latins would each be less diverse than just having the one Latin pulling in kids from all over DC.  Which is what people really love about the school.  In elementary school it makes more sense to have neighborhood specific schools like Appletree, but by middle school the expectation is that you can commute back and forth to school.   honestly, learning about public transit is as much an education as anything else!  ;-)

What we really need to do is make our neighborhoods more economically diverse.  But that isn't something that Washington Latin can fix!  [b]Pushing for more low income housing directly in the Washington Latin area is a step in the right direction, but, again, it's really out of their hands.  
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I'm a Latin parent and I think the set aside/quota is an interesting idea.  I trust that Martha Cutts knows more about what is good for the school than I do.  [/quote]

It is interesting that you say that.  I live in the neighborhood (you can aaaaaaaalmost see my house in one of the pictures in the article) and there is quite a bit of low income housing all around. In fact, when Bowser was the Ward 4 Council Member, she had a bit of an oh shit moment when she was touting bringing Latin to the area only to be challenged by people highlighting that the residents of the housing right across the street from the school didn't have any better chance of admission as someone from any other ward in the city.

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