Ludlow-Taylor principal suddenly leaving?

[Anonymous]

Interesting because the PK team (under Ms. Johnson's leadership) has been quite consistent for many years and the only teacher I know who left that team in recent years moved up to another grade.

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Anonymous wrote:Did you ever deal with Cobbs? We did and left Ludlow after a year during her tenure. She was there to serve what she liked to refer to as "her kind." Translation low SES AA students and their families. She was also rude, a reverse race baiter and dismissive of UMC in-boundary parents as a general rule. My spouse and I are not white, but we found her offensive. Yes, I know she did some good things management-wise, which paved the way for Ludlow to emerge as a primarily in-boundary school in the near future, from here in 2020. We were thrilled when she retired to Colorado.

I heard this secondhand when we also did our one year at the school, in 2011. Cobbs was leading a meeting to educate current PK parents about K and beyond. During the event a UMC white parent asked a question and referred to the possibility of not continuing to K. Her response: "Well, we really don't care if you stay or leave." At that point I believe total enrollment for K and above was something like 90 students.

It's a totally different school now, not just in terms of the demographics but also the quality of the leadership.

sounds like a clueless and annoying question from a privileged Pk parent.

I was't there, but person who asked it was a huge LT cheerleader, at least up that point. And what kinds of principal doesn't want to at least pay lip service to encourage parents to like their school enough to not drop out? That doesn't mean "catering" to them or changing policies.

As for the test scores, yes, those were impressive and reflected well on the school, especially in the older (testing) grades. But I can only say that our child's experience in PK was quite negative and harmful, because of an awful teacher (who has since left).

[Anonymous]

Privileged PK parent? Give us a break. Neighborhood schools are supposed to primarily serve...neighbors. Yea, we're a privileged lot here in the Ludlow-Taylor district, buying our million dollar row houses. Cobbs' enjoyed being rude to in-boundary parents who weren't black.

DC-CAS test scores were suspiciously high at Ludlow for low SES AA students. Once the much-harder-to-cheat-on PARCC was rolled out in 2012, Cobbs and teachers were busted, with scores dropping precipitously overnight. Ludlow's proficiency pass rate dropped by 40% in a single year and has never recovered for AA students. It was an outrage the DC Attorney General's Office and the DC Inspector General never investigated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Privileged PK parent? Give us a break. Neighborhood schools are supposed to primarily serve...neighbors. Yea, we're a privileged lot here in the Ludlow-Taylor district, buying our million dollar row houses. Cobbs' enjoyed being rude to in-boundary parents who weren't black.

DC-CAS test scores were suspiciously high at Ludlow for low SES AA students. Once the much-harder-to-cheat-on PARCC was rolled out in 2012, Cobbs and teachers were busted, with scores dropping precipitously overnight. Ludlow's proficiency pass rate dropped by 40% in a single year and has never recovered for AA students. It was an outrage the DC Attorney General's Office and the DC Inspector General never investigated.

Except that LT still has some of the highest test scores for AAs in the city. The scores two years ago were particularly impressive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting because the PK team (under Ms. Johnson's leadership) has been quite consistent for many years and the only teacher I know who left that team in recent years moved up to another grade.

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did you ever deal with Cobbs? We did and left Ludlow after a year during her tenure. She was there to serve what she liked to refer to as "her kind." Translation low SES AA students and their families. She was also rude, a reverse race baiter and dismissive of UMC in-boundary parents as a general rule. My spouse and I are not white, but we found her offensive. Yes, I know she did some good things management-wise, which paved the way for Ludlow to emerge as a primarily in-boundary school in the near future, from here in 2020. We were thrilled when she retired to Colorado.

I heard this secondhand when we also did our one year at the school, in 2011. Cobbs was leading a meeting to educate current PK parents about K and beyond. During the event a UMC white parent asked a question and referred to the possibility of not continuing to K. Her response: "Well, we really don't care if you stay or leave." At that point I believe total enrollment for K and above was something like 90 students.

It's a totally different school now, not just in terms of the demographics but also the quality of the leadership.

sounds like a clueless and annoying question from a privileged Pk parent.

I was't there, but person who asked it was a huge LT cheerleader, at least up that point. And what kinds of principal doesn't want to at least pay lip service to encourage parents to like their school enough to not drop out? That doesn't mean "catering" to them or changing policies.

As for the test scores, yes, those were impressive and reflected well on the school, especially in the older (testing) grades. But I can only say that our child's experience in PK was quite negative and harmful, because of an awful teacher (who has since left).

ugh, the “huge cheerleaders” who leave after PK are actually the worst.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Privileged PK parent? Give us a break. Neighborhood schools are supposed to primarily serve...neighbors. Yea, we're a privileged lot here in the Ludlow-Taylor district, buying our million dollar row houses. Cobbs' enjoyed being rude to in-boundary parents who weren't black.

DC-CAS test scores were suspiciously high at Ludlow for low SES AA students. Once the much-harder-to-cheat-on PARCC was rolled out in 2012, Cobbs and teachers were busted, with scores dropping precipitously overnight. Ludlow's proficiency pass rate dropped by 40% in a single year and has never recovered for AA students. It was an outrage the DC Attorney General's Office and the DC Inspector General never investigated.

the privileged part is PK parents who believe they deserve a personalized pitch at a public meeting for why they should keep their child at the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Based on enrollment, lottery results and test scores LT seems to be doing very well without all of the DCUM detractors. They have moved on without you; maybe time for you all to also move on?

nooo they need drama and crusades against bologna sandwiches to judge a school

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Based on enrollment, lottery results and test scores LT seems to be doing very well without all of the DCUM detractors. They have moved on without you; maybe time for you all to also move on?

nooo they need drama and crusades against bologna sandwiches to judge a school

Yes! I’d forgotten about that. Nice pull from the way back machine

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting because the PK team (under Ms. Johnson's leadership) has been quite consistent for many years and the only teacher I know who left that team in recent years moved up to another grade.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did you ever deal with Cobbs? We did and left Ludlow after a year during her tenure. She was there to serve what she liked to refer to as "her kind." Translation low SES AA students and their families. She was also rude, a reverse race baiter and dismissive of UMC in-boundary parents as a general rule. My spouse and I are not white, but we found her offensive. Yes, I know she did some good things management-wise, which paved the way for Ludlow to emerge as a primarily in-boundary school in the near future, from here in 2020. We were thrilled when she retired to Colorado.

I heard this secondhand when we also did our one year at the school, in 2011. Cobbs was leading a meeting to educate current PK parents about K and beyond. During the event a UMC white parent asked a question and referred to the possibility of not continuing to K. Her response: "Well, we really don't care if you stay or leave." At that point I believe total enrollment for K and above was something like 90 students.

It's a totally different school now, not just in terms of the demographics but also the quality of the leadership.

sounds like a clueless and annoying question from a privileged Pk parent.

I was't there, but person who asked it was a huge LT cheerleader, at least up that point. And what kinds of principal doesn't want to at least pay lip service to encourage parents to like their school enough to not drop out? That doesn't mean "catering" to them or changing policies.

As for the test scores, yes, those were impressive and reflected well on the school, especially in the older (testing) grades. But I can only say that our child's experience in PK was quite negative and harmful, because of an awful teacher (who has since left).

ugh, the “huge cheerleaders” who leave after PK are actually the worst.

You beat me to it! I think what she meant by "Huge cheerleader" (until PK4) is she was white and UMC and told her friends how happy she was with "the direction LT was going".

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Privileged PK parent? Give us a break. Neighborhood schools are supposed to primarily serve...neighbors. Yea, we're a privileged lot here in the Ludlow-Taylor district, buying our million dollar row houses. Cobbs' enjoyed being rude to in-boundary parents who weren't black.

DC-CAS test scores were suspiciously high at Ludlow for low SES AA students. Once the much-harder-to-cheat-on PARCC was rolled out in 2012, Cobbs and teachers were busted, with scores dropping precipitously overnight. Ludlow's proficiency pass rate dropped by 40% in a single year and has never recovered for AA students. It was an outrage the DC Attorney General's Office and the DC Inspector General never investigated.

Except that LT still has some of the highest test scores for AAs in the city. The scores two years ago were particularly impressive.

Please stop doing that. Actual data and facts are not nearly as important as the narrative this woman and her yoga friends have created and perpetuated. Please also take a moment to enjoy the Trumpian subtext that the only way these poor black and brown OOB kids could have succeeded was by cheating. It simply would not have been possible to have closed an achievement gap by concentrating resources on those kids.

[Anonymous]

Get a grip. Both things were true, the scores for low SES AA students were unusually good on a relative basis, but Cobbs and company were cheating nonetheless. OSSE introduced the PARCC in DC partly because it was a lot harder for admins and teachers to game. No secret.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get a grip. Both things were true, the scores for low SES AA students were unusually good on a relative basis, but Cobbs and company were cheating nonetheless. OSSE introduced the PARCC in DC partly because it was a lot harder for admins and teachers to game. No secret.

Thanks. Shame folks have to be so polarized and can't see a complex picture like this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get a grip. Both things were true, the scores for low SES AA students were unusually good on a relative basis, but Cobbs and company were cheating nonetheless. OSSE introduced the PARCC in DC partly because it was a lot harder for admins and teachers to game. No secret.

By all means, please point us to some sort of report or finding. (Not "I know", "everyone knows", "I heard from someone who worked there".)