No lamb shuttle bus next uear

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just clarifying that the other reason for the shuttle was that many families who were lied to by the previous administration and made housing choices based on those lies needed a way to actually get to the Kingsbury building.

But I guess the “risk” Charis was trying to reduce was having kids from undesirable parts of the city. Got it!

Classic charter move. We can accept at risk students but only the ones from a more 'desirable' part of the city.

Lamb admin and many LAMB parents are pretty open about making sure that this is a “ward 3/4 school”.

Feel free to search past posts. Kingsbury was a huge mistake.

I hope all the lamb families are okay having their kids breathe in lead dust and CFCs all year while they do emergency construction.

This is nonsense. I'm a LAMB parent and I have never heard anyone refer to it as a Ward 3/4 school. I cannot imagine anyone from the administration saying such a thing. LAMB is a bleeding-heart-so-woke-it's-annoying kind of school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As someone on the K waitlist for SD, but who is much closer to Kingsbury, please reconsider taking a spot to “try out” the commute, knowing it’s going to be too difficult and you’ll likely bail in a year or two. Our family getting off the waitlist means we don’t have to choose between a cross town commute to somewhere like Hyde or moving out of the city. It’s your spot, you can of course do with it what you want, but just wanted to put it out there that there are other families who would give an arm and a leg for that spot.

You should not be starting lamb at K. Prepare to bail.

I’ve never met a kid who really learned Spanish after starting at K.

Also you should be aware that the school did not want to take children that late but was forced into it.

I suspect your kid will wash out as well.

Look, be pissed at the school on this board, that's what we're here for. But it's a little nuts to declare that a 5-year-old will "wash out."

Isnt it a little nuts to tell people who live far away to not even bother attending? That poster deserves being told the truth about kids starting at K. Look at the research.

Original PP here. We speak Spanish at home and DC was in a Montessori preschool before the last two years of traditional DC pre-K. I’m not worried about DC washing out.

[Anonymous]

/\ also didn’t say not to bother attending. I’m saying think about the commute ahead of time and be honest with yourself. “Trying it out” then leaving shuts out other families that 100% can make it work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just clarifying that the other reason for the shuttle was that many families who were lied to by the previous administration and made housing choices based on those lies needed a way to actually get to the Kingsbury building.

But I guess the “risk” Charis was trying to reduce was having kids from undesirable parts of the city. Got it!

Classic charter move. We can accept at risk students but only the ones from a more 'desirable' part of the city.

Lamb admin and many LAMB parents are pretty open about making sure that this is a “ward 3/4 school”.

Feel free to search past posts. Kingsbury was a huge mistake.

I hope all the lamb families are okay having their kids breathe in lead dust and CFCs all year while they do emergency construction.

This is nonsense. I'm a LAMB parent and I have never heard anyone refer to it as a Ward 3/4 school. I cannot imagine anyone from the administration saying such a thing. LAMB is a bleeding-heart-so-woke-it's-annoying kind of school.

They would say it should be a Ward 4 school. Not Ward 3.

The whole idea of Kingsbury was to attract more W4 Hispanic families, their target population. What they seem not to have realized is that with common lottery and close proximity to very wealthy areas plus ward 3, those families don’t stand a chance to get in. Not to mention the amount of outreach needed to even get them to apply in the first place.

I’m guessing all the small percentage at risk kids and certainly almost all Black children came from South Dakota campus and they will now drop off, leaving Lamb rather embarrassingly one of the wealthiest lowest risk charters in the city. That wasn’t the intention - I disagree with PP who keeps insisting it was - but it’s a consequence not helped by the tone deafness of the admin vis a vis the non-ward-4 population. This shuttle cancellation is just the latest of many signs that they just don’t care to retain longtime very engaged families, which honestly hurts. But also it’s a sign that they don’t see the writing on the wall - the school isn’t living up to its mission to educate ELL and at risk etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As someone on the K waitlist for SD, but who is much closer to Kingsbury, please reconsider taking a spot to “try out” the commute, knowing it’s going to be too difficult and you’ll likely bail in a year or two. Our family getting off the waitlist means we don’t have to choose between a cross town commute to somewhere like Hyde or moving out of the city. It’s your spot, you can of course do with it what you want, but just wanted to put it out there that there are other families who would give an arm and a leg for that spot.

You should not be starting lamb at K. Prepare to bail.

I’ve never met a kid who really learned Spanish after starting at K.

Also you should be aware that the school did not want to take children that late but was forced into it.

I suspect your kid will wash out as well.

Look, be pissed at the school on this board, that's what we're here for. But it's a little nuts to declare that a 5-year-old will "wash out."

Isnt it a little nuts to tell people who live far away to not even bother attending? That poster deserves being told the truth about kids starting at K. Look at the research.

Come on. There's a big gap between "please consider that other families would kill for that spot before taking it just to 'try it out'" and "your child is doomed to academic failure." And starting immersion in pre-K has benefits, sure, but starting at K is far from hopeless (as the research attests). Tons of immersion schools in the US don't even have pre-K programs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just clarifying that the other reason for the shuttle was that many families who were lied to by the previous administration and made housing choices based on those lies needed a way to actually get to the Kingsbury building.

But I guess the “risk” Charis was trying to reduce was having kids from undesirable parts of the city. Got it!

Classic charter move. We can accept at risk students but only the ones from a more 'desirable' part of the city.

Lamb admin and many LAMB parents are pretty open about making sure that this is a “ward 3/4 school”.

Feel free to search past posts. Kingsbury was a huge mistake.

I hope all the lamb families are okay having their kids breathe in lead dust and CFCs all year while they do emergency construction.

This is nonsense. I'm a LAMB parent and I have never heard anyone refer to it as a Ward 3/4 school. I cannot imagine anyone from the administration saying such a thing. LAMB is a bleeding-heart-so-woke-it's-annoying kind of school.

They would say it should be a Ward 4 school. Not Ward 3.

The whole idea of Kingsbury was to attract more W4 Hispanic families, their target population. What they seem not to have realized is that with common lottery and close proximity to very wealthy areas plus ward 3, those families don’t stand a chance to get in. Not to mention the amount of outreach needed to even get them to apply in the first place.

I’m guessing all the small percentage at risk kids and certainly almost all Black children came from South Dakota campus and they will now drop off, leaving Lamb rather embarrassingly one of the wealthiest lowest risk charters in the city. That wasn’t the intention - I disagree with PP who keeps insisting it was - but it’s a consequence not helped by the tone deafness of the admin vis a vis the non-ward-4 population. This shuttle cancellation is just the latest of many signs that they just don’t care to retain longtime very engaged families, which honestly hurts. But also it’s a sign that they don’t see the writing on the wall - the school isn’t living up to its mission to educate ELL and at risk etc.

Former LAMB parent.

It's literally right down the street from its original location (and the Walter Reed temp location) and in the right direction for parents worried about commuting downtown after. I don't know what others were told, but when my child started at SD it was always mentioned that it would most likely be temporary and to be prepared to change locations (which we did).

[Anonymous]

I do appreciate they made this announcement early enough in the season that families can take that into consideration when making waitlist decisions. Guessing Mundo Verde 8 will see a bit more interest as a result.

[Anonymous]

No surprises here. I have been saying this all along because they could care less about the SD families.

The writing was clearly on the wall. They are just using the pandemic excuse as a cover. Watch, no shuttle for the following year either, whatever excuse they will use, we shall see.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No surprises here. I have been saying this all along because they could care less about the SD families.

The writing was clearly on the wall. They are just using the pandemic excuse as a cover. Watch, no shuttle for the following year either, whatever excuse they will use, we shall see.

That second paragraph seems pretty clear that they’re not ever planning on organizing shuttles. I don’t think it would be reasonable to say they left that possibility open after that message.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do appreciate they made this announcement early enough in the season that families can take that into consideration when making waitlist decisions. Guessing Mundo Verde 8 will see a bit more interest as a result.

What?? They did not make this announcement early enough in the season. They should have made it before the deadline to submit your lottery choices so current families can evaluate if they want to play the lottery and new families can re-rank their list if they wanted to. They could have ranked LAMB lower so some other schools would not have dropped off the list.

I would say they made it very late in the season. It’s June for goodness sake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do appreciate they made this announcement early enough in the season that families can take that into consideration when making waitlist decisions. Guessing Mundo Verde 8 will see a bit more interest as a result.

What?? They did not make this announcement early enough in the season. They should have made it before the deadline to submit your lottery choices so current families can evaluate if they want to play the lottery and new families can re-rank their list if they wanted to. They could have ranked LAMB lower so some other schools would not have dropped off the list.

I would say they made it very late in the season. It’s June for goodness sake.

You can always rearrange your list, even now. Anyways, I hear you, but still better than August.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought the Kingsbury building was supposed to solve all our problems- but the upper elementary students don’t have a classroom? How does this make sense? Why choose a building with no convenient metro access in a neighborhood with overpriced housing? So many questions.

Where are they going to put the upper elementary students then?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As someone on the K waitlist for SD, but who is much closer to Kingsbury, please reconsider taking a spot to “try out” the commute, knowing it’s going to be too difficult and you’ll likely bail in a year or two. Our family getting off the waitlist means we don’t have to choose between a cross town commute to somewhere like Hyde or moving out of the city. It’s your spot, you can of course do with it what you want, but just wanted to put it out there that there are other families who would give an arm and a leg for that spot.

Omg. I really cannot believe I just read this ... and that is saying something for DCUM. You're not entitled to someone else's spot just because you think you want it more. This is just crazy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As someone on the K waitlist for SD, but who is much closer to Kingsbury, please reconsider taking a spot to “try out” the commute, knowing it’s going to be too difficult and you’ll likely bail in a year or two. Our family getting off the waitlist means we don’t have to choose between a cross town commute to somewhere like Hyde or moving out of the city. It’s your spot, you can of course do with it what you want, but just wanted to put it out there that there are other families who would give an arm and a leg for that spot.

Omg. I really cannot believe I just read this ... and that is saying something for DCUM. You're not entitled to someone else's spot just because you think you want it more. This is just crazy.

Pretty much par for the dcum course id actually say.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As someone on the K waitlist for SD, but who is much closer to Kingsbury, please reconsider taking a spot to “try out” the commute, knowing it’s going to be too difficult and you’ll likely bail in a year or two. Our family getting off the waitlist means we don’t have to choose between a cross town commute to somewhere like Hyde or moving out of the city. It’s your spot, you can of course do with it what you want, but just wanted to put it out there that there are other families who would give an arm and a leg for that spot.

Omg. I really cannot believe I just read this ... and that is saying something for DCUM. You're not entitled to someone else's spot just because you think you want it more. This is just crazy.

Pretty much par for the dcum course id actually say.

I don’t think “be thoughtful before using a limited commodity“ is particularly crazy, but Americans aren’t known for community mindedness, now are they.