ludlow-taylor

[Anonymous]

^^You are obviously easy to please! Thats a good thing in DC.

[Anonymous]

Walked by LT at around 5pm past a giant Escalade, with MD plates, idling in front of the front doors. So typical to so many Capitol Hill schools, but this was especially brazen.

[Anonymous]

Was it also double parked? That would be typical

[Anonymous]

Bonus points if it had music playing where every other word is m-f or just eff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Antonia above, er, the neighborhood is mostly white and affluent, the school almost entirely black and lower middle-class or poor from K up.

I'm lost, what are you advocating? You don't want many more middle-class IB families to get involved?

If LT is not going to become a bona fide neighborhood school, why not have it go charter and be done with it?
How does your family benefit from the great majority of neighborhood whites with little kids running off to charters and privates? - My family does not need whites to make our lives any more fulfilling.

Honestly my family (kids) benefit from their mother and Father investing and loving them. The rest is the game of life. This goes beyond having the so-called elite education.
Ok, when you say neighborhood, are speaking south of H Street? But it really does not matter anyway. To be honest I think it's great to have more IB families, My issue it the fact some parents have this idea that their kids are for some reason are at an intelligent advantage from the laws of nature. The advantage comes from your connections anyone who has anything worth having in DC should know this. Now I do have my opinions that would suggest that kids that are poor may have disadvantages, but creating a school system that is designed to educate all is the answer. Achievement Academy SE DC and DC Prep NE- have higher schools than any school on the hill, have proven that you economic social status is not relevant- It takes a village to raise a child PERIOD- I don't care where the child comes from socially/ economically- great relationships with caring and nurturing peers is what molds a great human being.

Because the internet has held no true merit in my analysis of reality- I take this blog for face value.

When we have true neighborhoods schools again “Segregation" The bussing of the 60's will begin. Why are we going backwards instead of forward? I know Americans or transplant can’t be this STUPID- Maybe we are- This is really sad. I look at thing through a glass not a mirror-

Again- Like most affluent-True people that embody the east coast elite preppy send their kids to Private School- Unless you have an Affluent that suffers from white guilt-And those typically are pretty progressive. If this not you than honestly you are on the same play field as anyone else. Typically speaking we are mostly middle class- now it can be broken down. But are you part of the 99%? I think New and Old Washingtonian needs to understand why we love DC and make this city the Grand City it's supposed to be.

[Anonymous]

Huh?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Question for Antonia, if she's still around....

You mentioned that you were OOB for L-T. What made you choose that school for your children? It sounds like you're happy with your decision. What are the school's strengths or what do you like best about L-T? Are your children doing well?

Well My children were going to Oyster Adams Bi-Lingual- With my last child I was place on Bed rest so I could not logistically get to Calvert Street everday because of My husbands schedule- I tried my Neighborhood school which is Miner- My son was in Kindergarten- no complaints. Now my daughter was in the 1st grade- In the first month her teacher called out 5 times- I had enough when there was no damn sub-I so happened to drop my daughter off late around 9 and noticed kids in her class were just walking around. This was my problem. I reserached DC schools in the neighborhood that had available space and Ludlow was open. I have no problems at all.

Honestly I think Ludlow is a pretty stable dependable public school- I thought about taking them out to a so-called stonger performing school. But I think staying at same school during the early years is just as important- You create childhood best friends-remember teachers and the school knows your child- To me this balances Ludlow. It's not to big and they are stable. Middle school is now my forefront research obligation- We all know those 11-12-13 yrs are really funky.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Walked by LT at around 5pm past a giant Escalade, with MD plates, idling in front of the front doors. So typical to so many Capitol Hill schools, but this was especially brazen.

Sorry- That was my super ghetto cousin that works for DC Gov't picking up my kids-I'll be sure to make sure the music is turned down next time. GET A LIFE---LOL

[Anonymous]

Just wondering if anyone has expressed these views on LT with Principal Cobbs? She can't ignore the overwhelming negative responses about her one-on-one interactions with parents. At least, she should change her attitude.

If she's not going anywhere, perhaps she can be made aware? What principal would continue acting like this if they thought the entire community surrounding her school was saying these things about her. Has she tried to be more open? It doesn't make sense...

[Anonymous]

yay! LT made the calendar.

[Anonymous]

Somebody give a logical explanation for the massive drop in scores between 2010 and 2011. What happened?

http://www.greatschools.org/washington-dc/washington/31-Ludlow-Taylor-Elementary-School/?tab=test-scores

[Anonymous]

Funny. Same thing here. At J.O. Wilson

http://www.greatschools.org/washington-dc/washington/46-J.O.-Wilson-Elementary-School/?tab=test-scores

[Anonymous]

But not at Maury

http://www.greatschools.org/washington-dc/washington/28-Maury-Elementary-School/?tab=test-scores

And not at Brent

http://www.greatschools.org/washington-dc/washington/89-Brent-Elementary-School/?tab=test-scores

And not at Watkins

http://www.greatschools.org/washington-dc/washington/36-Watkins-Elementary-School/?tab=test-scores

And not at Watkins

http://www.greatschools.org/washington-dc/washington/56-Tyler-Elementary-School/?tab=test-scores


So strange that both J.O. Wilson and Ludlow Taylor were also flagged for very high erasure rates on the Dc Cas answer sheets in 2010.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone have anything negative to say that does not include:

-The principal

-erasure rates

-"OOB" children

-The Maryland Problem

Saying the same thing over and over rephrased is annoying. We get it. You don't like LT.

If comments are going to be negative could they maybe be new and innovative?

[Anonymous]

It is not that I don't like LT. I don't like cheating scandals being swept under the rug. I don't like that the dishonest people who perpetrate cheating scandals and thereby cheat the kids they are supposed to teach are still out there and were financially rewarded for their cheating. That's what I dislike