Matched IB Ludlow Taylor :( What is the lowest WL position worth considering as an option?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As an IB family for L-T, your options are to move, go private, work to make the school good, or bitch on DCUM. I can see we have a few who want to do nothing more than bitch. I'm happy to see there are also more than a few who have taken a chance on the school and are happy with their choice.

This is a discussion. Why is asking questions and trying to learn about the school considered bitching....?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Choice Set K

LT
Miner
JO Wilson
SWS

http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1102971/policy-example-a.pdf

This is somehow too much to digest on the heels of the lottery.
When would this go into effect if it were approved?

[Anonymous]

2015 unless Bowser or Catania step in after taking the oath of office.

[Anonymous]

If you were enrolled in LT prior to the 2015 lottery you would be grandfathered you almost certainly could stay at the school, but the longer term trends don't seem promising. The SWS families must be in a panic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:2015 unless Bowser or Catania step in after taking the oath of office.

Hello--these are just "policy examples." Proposed scenarios. Discussion documents. Not set in stone. Not policy. Not happening without a whole lot of political rigamarole, which means your lottery results will stay your lottery results for the 2014-2015 school year and you're likely grandfathered in for years thereafter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems obvious to me that the L-T parents who are posting on here, or at least a few of them, do need to learn to deal with the past in a more positive light. i don't have any issues with the questions asked in here. I think they are all relevant. Who wouldn't want to know this and more? And if the OP are older parents who knew people who had bad experiences, I think this would be the place to come to flush out the dirty truth, and find out if it was still going on....

Meanwhile the parents are sensitive to the point where they really overreact and dive into personal attacks, ("dillweed", psychiatric interventions) etc . i don't see how that helps the reputation of their school. They sound more like the trolls. It actually looks very foolish.

As other posters have noted, there isn't an active Facebook page, any easy way to see fundraisers or other events, or other good means of understanding what the school culture is like....

We all know, when you ask people in person, they are always going to give you a "clean" version of the school, even if they aren't happy. Especially if the area has gentrified quickly, house values are probably approaching what they would cost in the more desirable parts of NW, but the school is filled with ward 7 / 8/ pg county AND many in the neighborhood resort to private. That is a recipe for disaster. That ends up creating a set of people who can afford their mortgage, but not private school, and are stuck with the local school. A group of people who are staying or stuck, and who are extremely defensive about the fact they don't have the choice some of their neighbors do. If I lived here, I would be hard pressed to pay for private if the local school were as good as the parents say it is. The true question, however, is .... IS it? Is the school actually that good? At what point is it not? 1st Grade? 2nd Grade?

Not even close...have you looked at single families homes in upper NW recently? Makes Stanton Park look low income!

[Anonymous]

I bet if you try to go to private school you may get looked down upon for living in a row house, driving a Toyota and going to a swimming pool in PG county. People won't want your NE behavior bringing down their children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Choice Set K

LT
Miner
JO Wilson
SWS

http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1102971/policy-example-a.pdf

I can't believe that no one corrected my error in the posting above. Upon further review of the DME documents this AM, it appears that I misread the table attached to Policy Example B. Choice Set "L" is actually comprised of

LT
Miner
JO Wilson
SWS
CHM@L

Sorry for the misinformation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I bet if you try to go to private school you may get looked down upon for living in a row house, driving a Toyota and going to a swimming pool in PG county. People won't want your NE behavior bringing down their children.

We don't drive a toyota or do anything in PG county. Sorry if that means we shouldn't live EOTP. We have an AWESOME house though, with a garden where our NW friends come slumming with glee before dinner on 8th or drinking on H.

There are plenty of children in private already from NE..... Nothing to worry about there. (Plenty from PG county even... Check the boards. They are pissed they don't have buses to NCS )

And furthermore, plenty of people in private are funded by grandparents or trusts. Or companies... If you would for the World Bank or similar organizations, tuition benefit for private school is a given.

This is just one of those towns. There is a lot of money sloshing around from different sources, whether you approve of that or not, or if it is "FAIR".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems obvious to me that the L-T parents who are posting on here, or at least a few of them, do need to learn to deal with the past in a more positive light. i don't have any issues with the questions asked in here. I think they are all relevant. Who wouldn't want to know this and more? And if the OP are older parents who knew people who had bad experiences, I think this would be the place to come to flush out the dirty truth, and find out if it was still going on....

Meanwhile the parents are sensitive to the point where they really overreact and dive into personal attacks, ("dillweed", psychiatric interventions) etc . i don't see how that helps the reputation of their school. They sound more like the trolls. It actually looks very foolish.

As other posters have noted, there isn't an active Facebook page, any easy way to see fundraisers or other events, or other good means of understanding what the school culture is like....

We all know, when you ask people in person, they are always going to give you a "clean" version of the school, even if they aren't happy. Especially if the area has gentrified quickly, house values are probably approaching what they would cost in the more desirable parts of NW, but the school is filled with ward 7 / 8/ pg county AND many in the neighborhood resort to private. That is a recipe for disaster. That ends up creating a set of people who can afford their mortgage, but not private school, and are stuck with the local school. A group of people who are staying or stuck, and who are extremely defensive about the fact they don't have the choice some of their neighbors do. If I lived here, I would be hard pressed to pay for private if the local school were as good as the parents say it is. The true question, however, is .... IS it? Is the school actually that good? At what point is it not? 1st Grade? 2nd Grade?

Not even close...have you looked at single families homes in upper NW recently? Makes Stanton Park look low income!

By that I meant a totally crappy house in Palisades for 800k. Another poster mentioned 1.5-2.5M for NW, and was referencing a more accurate range.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I bet if you try to go to private school you may get looked down upon for living in a row house, driving a Toyota and going to a swimming pool in PG county. People won't want your NE behavior bringing down their children.

We don't drive a toyota or do anything in PG county. Sorry if that means we shouldn't live EOTP. We have an AWESOME house though, with a garden where our NW friends come slumming with glee before dinner on 8th or drinking on H.

There are plenty of children in private already from NE..... Nothing to worry about there. (Plenty from PG county even... Check the boards. They are pissed they don't have buses to NCS )

And furthermore, plenty of people in private are funded by grandparents or trusts. Or companies... If you would for the World Bank or similar organizations, tuition benefit for private school is a given.

This is just one of those towns. There is a lot of money sloshing around from different sources, whether you approve of that or not, or if it is "FAIR".

OMG. Don't tell that to the DME.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I bet if you try to go to private school you may get looked down upon for living in a row house, driving a Toyota and going to a swimming pool in PG county. People won't want your NE behavior bringing down their children.

We don't drive a toyota or do anything in PG county. Sorry if that means we shouldn't live EOTP. We have an AWESOME house though, with a garden where our NW friends come slumming with glee before dinner on 8th or drinking on H.

There are plenty of children in private already from NE..... Nothing to worry about there. (Plenty from PG county even... Check the boards. They are pissed they don't have buses to NCS )

And furthermore, plenty of people in private are funded by grandparents or trusts. Or companies... If you would for the World Bank or similar organizations, tuition benefit for private school is a given.

This is just one of those towns. There is a lot of money sloshing around from different sources, whether you approve of that or not, or if it is "FAIR".

OMG. Don't tell that to the DME.

She will come up with some even BETTER schemes, muwahahaha....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I bet if you try to go to private school you may get looked down upon for living in a row house, driving a Toyota and going to a swimming pool in PG county. People won't want your NE behavior bringing down their children.

We don't drive a toyota or do anything in PG county. Sorry if that means we shouldn't live EOTP. We have an AWESOME house though, with a garden where our NW friends come slumming with glee before dinner on 8th or drinking on H.

There are plenty of children in private already from NE..... Nothing to worry about there. (Plenty from PG county even... Check the boards. They are pissed they don't have buses to NCS )

And furthermore, plenty of people in private are funded by grandparents or trusts. Or companies... If you would for the World Bank or similar organizations, tuition benefit for private school is a given.

This is just one of those towns. There is a lot of money sloshing around from different sources, whether you approve of that or not, or if it is "FAIR".

OMG. Don't tell that to the DME.

She will come up with some even BETTER schemes, muwahahaha....

Wonderfully mature, all of this ...............

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I bet if you try to go to private school you may get looked down upon for living in a row house, driving a Toyota and going to a swimming pool in PG county. People won't want your NE behavior bringing down their children.

We don't drive a toyota or do anything in PG county. Sorry if that means we shouldn't live EOTP. We have an AWESOME house though, with a garden where our NW friends come slumming with glee before dinner on 8th or drinking on H.

There are plenty of children in private already from NE..... Nothing to worry about there. (Plenty from PG county even... Check the boards. They are pissed they don't have buses to NCS )

And furthermore, plenty of people in private are funded by grandparents or trusts. Or companies... If you would for the World Bank or similar organizations, tuition benefit for private school is a given.

This is just one of those towns. There is a lot of money sloshing around from different sources, whether you approve of that or not, or if it is "FAIR".

Not true at all for World Bank! If you are internationally recruited for a professional track position tuition assistance is available for K and up. It won't cover the $30K+/year that private school costs, but it helps. There are many people working for the World Bank who do not qualify for this benefit at all, including US nationals, staff hired internally who enter on consultancies and transition to regular appointments (the vast majority of staff). This benefit serves staff relocated to other countries more than country staff relocated to Washington.

[Anonymous]

If there are students at LT from Maryland, why don't the parents call the DC Inspector General? Tel. is: [phone] or email at: [e-mail]
The OIG investigates this stuff and publishes reports, and it does make a BIG difference and for lots of positive change.

Or call NBC of Fox - they'd love to set up cameras outside. One of their reports will trigger an OIG investigation, no doubt.

If the school is allowing non-residents to attend for free, then there's a break-down in administration, period. That cannot be tolerated.