Anonymous wrote:Martha has a good heart ans was probably musing in response to this drummed up charter school controversy from Hillary Clinton's comments a few weeks ago. Latin has done exceptionally well by all four quadrants of the city and should hold its head high while seeking as ever to improve. Perhaps its time to duplicate the model, just as it is, since the demand is there. If there can be a thousand KIPPs, why not more Latins? It was a great school for our child and we rejoice in it.

Anonymous wrote:A few months ago several DCUM posters were saying that a Latin replication was a sure thing - that the Latin board was in negotiations to purchase/lease the St. Ann's space in Tenleytown and open a second campus there. Some even speculated that this was why Martha Cutts was retiring (not wanting to lead through an expansion).

Was that rumor completely false?

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Anonymous wrote:Martha has a good heart ans was probably musing in response to this drummed up charter school controversy from Hillary Clinton's comments a few weeks ago. Latin has done exceptionally well by all four quadrants of the city and should hold its head high while seeking as ever to improve. Perhaps its time to duplicate the model, just as it is, since the demand is there. If there can be a thousand KIPPs, why not more Latins? It was a great school for our child and we rejoice in it.

Because their mantra is this is Latin and we won't duplicate. I disagree it has served all 4 quadrants.

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Anonymous wrote:Martha has a good heart ans was probably musing in response to this drummed up charter school controversy from Hillary Clinton's comments a few weeks ago. Latin has done exceptionally well by all four quadrants of the city and should hold its head high while seeking as ever to improve. Perhaps its time to duplicate the model, just as it is, since the demand is there. If there can be a thousand KIPPs, why not more Latins? It was a great school for our child and we rejoice in it.

Because their mantra is this is Latin and we won't duplicate. I disagree it has served all 4 quadrants.

Anonymous wrote:Martha has a good heart ans was probably musing in response to this drummed up charter school controversy from Hillary Clinton's comments a few weeks ago. Latin has done exceptionally well by all four quadrants of the city and should hold its head high while seeking as ever to improve. Perhaps its time to duplicate the model, just as it is, since the demand is there. If there can be a thousand KIPPs, why not more Latins? It was a great school for our child and we rejoice in it.

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Anonymous wrote:PP you make it sound like Latin started in a Ward 3 palace. It started in a church basement (which I helped paint). The neighborhoods it has subsequently moved to are not by any stretch of the imagination swanky or high income. It was a strain on me to attend school events in the new locations from my home in Ward 3, but I did it. Our child had a long commute when riding public (often, with after school sports and activities). Latin has bent over backwards to recruit students from all wards and incomes. What it does is enough. It does not need to weight low income applicants.

I think you made PP point. If it was a strain for a Ward 3 parent with resources, it would be close to impossible for a Ward 8 parent with little to know resources. I bet you have a car and four to six times the financial resources as that Ward 8 parent. In addition, your Ward 3 home is in the same quandrant, nw, as Latin opposed to that far spot heart Ward 8 home.

Latin is in NE. And sometimes people just have to step up and do what they have to do. What do you expect? Taxpayer-funded cabs to take kids from Ward 8 to Latin??

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Anonymous wrote:I know the article was about Latin, but isn't BASIS more diverse than Ross?

Latin has a school library, which Basis lacks.

Anonymous wrote:I'm a Latin parent. I love Martha Cutts, but don't agree that the school needs a preference weighting for low-income kids; actually, if there was going to be "weighting" of any kind, then I think the lottery should weight instead based upon income categories so that any given class is no more than 30% low income, since according to research that's the tipping point where middle class parents will start to bail on a school.

After living (and paying taxes) in this city for over 20 years, I don't think that everything has to be geared completely towards DC's low income population. The success of Latin (and Basis) has been the creation of non-WOTP schools which can attract and retain middle class DC taxpayers. There are plenty of motivated parents (both white and AA) who cannot afford to live IB for Deal/Wilson and cannot afford $37K per year for private. Just ten years ago, those parents would have bailed for the 'burbs because of schools. Instead, those families, including my own, have stayed in DC, which is a positive for a city that used to be economically segregated to a far greater degree than it is now.

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Anonymous wrote:PP you make it sound like Latin started in a Ward 3 palace. It started in a church basement (which I helped paint). The neighborhoods it has subsequently moved to are not by any stretch of the imagination swanky or high income. It was a strain on me to attend school events in the new locations from my home in Ward 3, but I did it. Our child had a long commute when riding public (often, with after school sports and activities). Latin has bent over backwards to recruit students from all wards and incomes. What it does is enough. It does not need to weight low income applicants.

I think you made PP point. If it was a strain for a Ward 3 parent with resources, it would be close to impossible for a Ward 8 parent with little to know resources. I bet you have a car and four to six times the financial resources as that Ward 8 parent. In addition, your Ward 3 home is in the same quandrant, nw, as Latin opposed to that far spot heart Ward 8 home.

Latin is in NE. And sometimes people just have to step up and do what they have to do. What do you expect? Taxpayer-funded cabs to take kids from Ward 8 to Latin??

What do I want? If Martha Cutts is serious about improving diversity at her school, I'd like to see the school honestly think through the reason it may be lacking.

Anonymous wrote:I'm a Latin parent. I love Martha Cutts, but don't agree that the school needs a preference weighting for low-income kids; actually, if there was going to be "weighting" of any kind, then I think the lottery should weight instead based upon income categories so that any given class is no more than 30% low income, since according to research that's the tipping point where middle class parents will start to bail on a school.

After living (and paying taxes) in this city for over 20 years, I don't think that everything has to be geared completely towards DC's low income population. The success of Latin (and Basis) has been the creation of non-WOTP schools which can attract and retain middle class DC taxpayers. There are plenty of motivated parents (both white and AA) who cannot afford to live IB for Deal/Wilson and cannot afford $37K per year for private. Just ten years ago, those parents would have bailed for the 'burbs because of schools. Instead, those families, including my own, have stayed in DC, which is a positive for a city that used to be economically segregated to a far greater degree than it is now.