LAMB vs. Mann

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Anonymous wrote:Aside from the obvious differences of Spanish and Montessori at LAMB, which school has stronger administration, academics, socialization, community, etc. to hopefully stay for several years? This is for a current LAMB family and the commute to either school is not a major issue.

We had the same choice and decided to stay at LAMB. I like the fact that the LAMB administration isn’t beholden to the DCPS central office politics.

I don’t think that is a plus, specially with LAMB.

LAMB has much more control over the hiring and firing of teachers. DCPS doesn’t have any accountability when it comes to staffing and leaves schools short staffed for the entire school year. Therefore, LAMB’s student teacher ratio is way lower than most DCPS schools. Mann has to rely on fundraising to hire addition teacher aides.

Say what you want but one thing Mann doesn’t suffer from is lack of teachers. (My kid had two teachers in an 18 person class at Mann this year, for example). From the perspective of the OP who is considering these two specific choices, that would probably not be a factor.

I think OP should go to Mann. If you’re looking at traditional schools with a lot of white kids and no foreign language, lamb is not going to be a fit for you. Don’t feel bad, your spot will be backfilled or snapped up by a family who prioritizes these things. Best of luck.

She played the lottery for a reason, she is Probably not happy with LAMB right now.

I definitely agree with you. I bet op is yet another monolingual family that wanted free pre k. Just move on. You’re not going to get happier with the school as time progresses and the positives of lamb (diversity, Montessori, Spanish, DCI) are probably negatives in your book.

As a long time lamb parent, I am always grateful to shed monolingual families scared of diversity. You aren’t missed.

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Anonymous wrote:Aside from the obvious differences of Spanish and Montessori at LAMB, which school has stronger administration, academics, socialization, community, etc. to hopefully stay for several years? This is for a current LAMB family and the commute to either school is not a major issue.

We had the same choice and decided to stay at LAMB. I like the fact that the LAMB administration isn’t beholden to the DCPS central office politics.

I don’t think that is a plus, specially with LAMB.

LAMB has much more control over the hiring and firing of teachers. DCPS doesn’t have any accountability when it comes to staffing and leaves schools short staffed for the entire school year. Therefore, LAMB’s student teacher ratio is way lower than most DCPS schools. Mann has to rely on fundraising to hire addition teacher aides.

Say what you want but one thing Mann doesn’t suffer from is lack of teachers. (My kid had two teachers in an 18 person class at Mann this year, for example). From the perspective of the OP who is considering these two specific choices, that would probably not be a factor.

I think OP should go to Mann. If you’re looking at traditional schools with a lot of white kids and no foreign language, lamb is not going to be a fit for you. Don’t feel bad, your spot will be backfilled or snapped up by a family who prioritizes these things. Best of luck.

She played the lottery for a reason, she is Probably not happy with LAMB right now.

I definitely agree with you. I bet op is yet another monolingual family that wanted free pre k. Just move on. You’re not going to get happier with the school as time progresses and the positives of lamb (diversity, Montessori, Spanish, DCI) are probably negatives in your book.

As a long time lamb parent, I am always grateful to shed monolingual families scared of diversity. You aren’t missed.

I think there are a lot of monolingual families that have a hard time getting their kids to succeed in bilingual schools, therefore they blame the schools for it.

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Anonymous wrote:Aside from the obvious differences of Spanish and Montessori at LAMB, which school has stronger administration, academics, socialization, community, etc. to hopefully stay for several years? This is for a current LAMB family and the commute to either school is not a major issue.

We had the same choice and decided to stay at LAMB. I like the fact that the LAMB administration isn’t beholden to the DCPS central office politics.

I don’t think that is a plus, specially with LAMB.

LAMB has much more control over the hiring and firing of teachers. DCPS doesn’t have any accountability when it comes to staffing and leaves schools short staffed for the entire school year. Therefore, LAMB’s student teacher ratio is way lower than most DCPS schools. Mann has to rely on fundraising to hire addition teacher aides.

Say what you want but one thing Mann doesn’t suffer from is lack of teachers. (My kid had two teachers in an 18 person class at Mann this year, for example). From the perspective of the OP who is considering these two specific choices, that would probably not be a factor.

I think OP should go to Mann. If you’re looking at traditional schools with a lot of white kids and no foreign language, lamb is not going to be a fit for you. Don’t feel bad, your spot will be backfilled or snapped up by a family who prioritizes these things. Best of luck.

She played the lottery for a reason, she is Probably not happy with LAMB right now.

I definitely agree with you. I bet op is yet another monolingual family that wanted free pre k. Just move on. You’re not going to get happier with the school as time progresses and the positives of lamb (diversity, Montessori, Spanish, DCI) are probably negatives in your book.

As a long time lamb parent, I am always grateful to shed monolingual families scared of diversity. You aren’t missed.

I think there are a lot of monolingual families that have a hard time getting their kids to succeed in bilingual schools, therefore they blame the schools for it.

I think lamb does a good job with those kids, but parents need to model the importance of speaking Spanish. I see a lot of monolingual families who make a serious effort to help their kids learn Spanish. I also see a lot of loud monolingual families screaming about their children’s Spanish without doing anything to support it. No one is ever sad to see those families leave.

[Anonymous]

I see LAMB's toxic parents have come out to play.

It's no wonder OP wants to leave.

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Anonymous wrote:Aside from the obvious differences of Spanish and Montessori at LAMB, which school has stronger administration, academics, socialization, community, etc. to hopefully stay for several years? This is for a current LAMB family and the commute to either school is not a major issue.

We had the same choice and decided to stay at LAMB. I like the fact that the LAMB administration isn’t beholden to the DCPS central office politics.

I don’t think that is a plus, specially with LAMB.

LAMB has much more control over the hiring and firing of teachers. DCPS doesn’t have any accountability when it comes to staffing and leaves schools short staffed for the entire school year. Therefore, LAMB’s student teacher ratio is way lower than most DCPS schools. Mann has to rely on fundraising to hire addition teacher aides.

Say what you want but one thing Mann doesn’t suffer from is lack of teachers. (My kid had two teachers in an 18 person class at Mann this year, for example). From the perspective of the OP who is considering these two specific choices, that would probably not be a factor.

I think OP should go to Mann. If you’re looking at traditional schools with a lot of white kids and no foreign language, lamb is not going to be a fit for you. Don’t feel bad, your spot will be backfilled or snapped up by a family who prioritizes these things. Best of luck.

She played the lottery for a reason, she is Probably not happy with LAMB right now.

I definitely agree with you. I bet op is yet another monolingual family that wanted free pre k. Just move on. You’re not going to get happier with the school as time progresses and the positives of lamb (diversity, Montessori, Spanish, DCI) are probably negatives in your book.

As a long time lamb parent, I am always grateful to shed monolingual families scared of diversity. You aren’t missed.

I think there are a lot of monolingual families that have a hard time getting their kids to succeed in bilingual schools, therefore they blame the schools for it.

I think lamb does a good job with those kids, but parents need to model the importance of speaking Spanish. I see a lot of monolingual families who make a serious effort to help their kids learn Spanish. I also see a lot of loud monolingual families screaming about their children’s Spanish without doing anything to support it. No one is ever sad to see those families leave.

No one cares if anyone leaves any school, ever. Like, literally no one. Not the teachers, the other parents, the administrators. Everyone just moves on.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Aside from the obvious differences of Spanish and Montessori at LAMB, which school has stronger administration, academics, socialization, community, etc. to hopefully stay for several years? This is for a current LAMB family and the commute to either school is not a major issue.

We had the same choice and decided to stay at LAMB. I like the fact that the LAMB administration isn’t beholden to the DCPS central office politics.

I don’t think that is a plus, specially with LAMB.

LAMB has much more control over the hiring and firing of teachers. DCPS doesn’t have any accountability when it comes to staffing and leaves schools short staffed for the entire school year. Therefore, LAMB’s student teacher ratio is way lower than most DCPS schools. Mann has to rely on fundraising to hire addition teacher aides.

Say what you want but one thing Mann doesn’t suffer from is lack of teachers. (My kid had two teachers in an 18 person class at Mann this year, for example). From the perspective of the OP who is considering these two specific choices, that would probably not be a factor.

I think OP should go to Mann. If you’re looking at traditional schools with a lot of white kids and no foreign language, lamb is not going to be a fit for you. Don’t feel bad, your spot will be backfilled or snapped up by a family who prioritizes these things. Best of luck.

She played the lottery for a reason, she is Probably not happy with LAMB right now.

I definitely agree with you. I bet op is yet another monolingual family that wanted free pre k. Just move on. You’re not going to get happier with the school as time progresses and the positives of lamb (diversity, Montessori, Spanish, DCI) are probably negatives in your book.

As a long time lamb parent, I am always grateful to shed monolingual families scared of diversity. You aren’t missed.

I think there are a lot of monolingual families that have a hard time getting their kids to succeed in bilingual schools, therefore they blame the schools for it.

I think lamb does a good job with those kids, but parents need to model the importance of speaking Spanish. I see a lot of monolingual families who make a serious effort to help their kids learn Spanish. I also see a lot of loud monolingual families screaming about their children’s Spanish without doing anything to support it. No one is ever sad to see those families leave.

No one cares if anyone leaves any school, ever. Like, literally no one. Not the teachers, the other parents, the administrators. Everyone just moves on.

+1 why would Pp care? No one cares if you leave in k, 3rd grade, 5th grade! No one cares! Pp are you getting paid by LAMB, I don’t understand why you care so much.

[Anonymous]

The irony of all these mean comments is that Mann in particular probably has the highest share of truly multilingual students of any DCPS or charter school…

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Anonymous wrote:Aside from the obvious differences of Spanish and Montessori at LAMB, which school has stronger administration, academics, socialization, community, etc. to hopefully stay for several years? This is for a current LAMB family and the commute to either school is not a major issue.

We had the same choice and decided to stay at LAMB. I like the fact that the LAMB administration isn’t beholden to the DCPS central office politics.

I don’t think that is a plus, specially with LAMB.

LAMB has much more control over the hiring and firing of teachers. DCPS doesn’t have any accountability when it comes to staffing and leaves schools short staffed for the entire school year. Therefore, LAMB’s student teacher ratio is way lower than most DCPS schools. Mann has to rely on fundraising to hire addition teacher aides.

Say what you want but one thing Mann doesn’t suffer from is lack of teachers. (My kid had two teachers in an 18 person class at Mann this year, for example). From the perspective of the OP who is considering these two specific choices, that would probably not be a factor.

I think OP should go to Mann. If you’re looking at traditional schools with a lot of white kids and no foreign language, lamb is not going to be a fit for you. Don’t feel bad, your spot will be backfilled or snapped up by a family who prioritizes these things. Best of luck.

She played the lottery for a reason, she is Probably not happy with LAMB right now.

I definitely agree with you. I bet op is yet another monolingual family that wanted free pre k. Just move on. You’re not going to get happier with the school as time progresses and the positives of lamb (diversity, Montessori, Spanish, DCI) are probably negatives in your book.

As a long time lamb parent, I am always grateful to shed monolingual families scared of diversity. You aren’t missed.

Part of this statement is so weird. What is wrong with wanting free pre-k in general? Everyone should have access to high quality free pre-k. Studies have shown that programs like Head Start are exceptionally effective in reducing the achievement gap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The irony of all these mean comments is that Mann in particular probably has the highest share of truly multilingual students of any DCPS or charter school…

Sure Karen. So much diversity in Mann- a 66% white school. Definitely. Sure.

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Anonymous wrote:Aside from the obvious differences of Spanish and Montessori at LAMB, which school has stronger administration, academics, socialization, community, etc. to hopefully stay for several years? This is for a current LAMB family and the commute to either school is not a major issue.

We had the same choice and decided to stay at LAMB. I like the fact that the LAMB administration isn’t beholden to the DCPS central office politics.

I don’t think that is a plus, specially with LAMB.

LAMB has much more control over the hiring and firing of teachers. DCPS doesn’t have any accountability when it comes to staffing and leaves schools short staffed for the entire school year. Therefore, LAMB’s student teacher ratio is way lower than most DCPS schools. Mann has to rely on fundraising to hire addition teacher aides.

Say what you want but one thing Mann doesn’t suffer from is lack of teachers. (My kid had two teachers in an 18 person class at Mann this year, for example). From the perspective of the OP who is considering these two specific choices, that would probably not be a factor.

I think OP should go to Mann. If you’re looking at traditional schools with a lot of white kids and no foreign language, lamb is not going to be a fit for you. Don’t feel bad, your spot will be backfilled or snapped up by a family who prioritizes these things. Best of luck.

She played the lottery for a reason, she is Probably not happy with LAMB right now.

I definitely agree with you. I bet op is yet another monolingual family that wanted free pre k. Just move on. You’re not going to get happier with the school as time progresses and the positives of lamb (diversity, Montessori, Spanish, DCI) are probably negatives in your book.

As a long time lamb parent, I am always grateful to shed monolingual families scared of diversity. You aren’t missed.

Part of this statement is so weird. What is wrong with wanting free pre-k in general? Everyone should have access to high quality free pre-k. Studies have shown that programs like Head Start are exceptionally effective in reducing the achievement gap.

The reason is that lamb is a pk3-5th program to achieve bilíteracy. Not saying every gets there, but that is the goal. Using it for free prek only is a pretty crappy thing to do, particularly if you’re inbounds for Mann.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I see LAMB's toxic parents have come out to play.

It's no wonder OP wants to leave.

I see ward 3 out spreading their toxicity in full force too.

[Anonymous]

I loved the Spanish piece at LAMB (bilingual family) but I felt like the Montessori piece (maybe specifically LAMB's approach to it) didn't really work for my DS. He is shy and reserved and the approach of letting the kids choose their own "work" activities resulted in him sitting by himself transferring beads from bowl to bowl most of the time. Just something to consider if your kid is similar. We ended up moving to Ward 3 and the more traditional pre-k at our IB was a better fit

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The irony of all these mean comments is that Mann in particular probably has the highest share of truly multilingual students of any DCPS or charter school…

Sure Karen. So much diversity in Mann- a 66% white school. Definitely. Sure.

PP is talking about multilingual students, you know, you can be white AND multilingual.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I loved the Spanish piece at LAMB (bilingual family) but I felt like the Montessori piece (maybe specifically LAMB's approach to it) didn't really work for my DS. He is shy and reserved and the approach of letting the kids choose their own "work" activities resulted in him sitting by himself transferring beads from bowl to bowl most of the time. Just something to consider if your kid is similar. We ended up moving to Ward 3 and the more traditional pre-k at our IB was a better fit

This. We chose another Spanish charter because of the issue of Montessori in the upper grades. It’s great for ECE and K but Montessori doesn’t work for many kids in the upper grades. Most kids need structure and made to do some things that are hard or they don’t like. DS would choose to do what he likes or comes easy and not out any effort into harder things. Some kids are self motivated and Montessori might work in the upper grades but the majority of kids need a lot more structure

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Anonymous wrote:The irony of all these mean comments is that Mann in particular probably has the highest share of truly multilingual students of any DCPS or charter school…

Sure Karen. So much diversity in Mann- a 66% white school. Definitely. Sure.

PP is talking about multilingual students, you know, you can be white AND multilingual.

The critical thinking skills at play here are impressive. Apparently multilingual = not white in this person’s mind.