LAMB closing its existing campuses and consolidating to one campus

[Anonymous]

Please don't kill this before you learn more about it. I am really excited about the potential move, and I wish people could keep an open mind and learn more about the plans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please don't kill this before you learn more about it. I am really excited about the potential move, and I wish people could keep an open mind and learn more about the plans.

Don't worry. They can't kill it. The LAMB administration and Board is impervious to input from its parents.

-longtime LAMB parent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please don't kill this before you learn more about it. I am really excited about the potential move, and I wish people could keep an open mind and learn more about the plans.

(1) it is too small

(2) it is over a mile from any metro

(3) it effectively expels all families from wards 6, 7, and 8 who can't afford to travel such a long distance.

(4) we would be co-locating with kingsbury students, which means it's even smaller than we think

(5) It is yet another move in a series of bad moves and bad decisions made by the administration.

(6) haven't we spent enough renovating Walter Reed and South Dakota? Why is our money being mismanaged so badly?

I don't care that you're excited or it's convenient for you. It is a terrible, terrible decision all around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please don't kill this before you learn more about it. I am really excited about the potential move, and I wish people could keep an open mind and learn more about the plans.

Don't worry. They can't kill it. The LAMB administration and Board is impervious to input from its parents.

-longtime LAMB parent

And they love to make poor decisions at great cost to the students and families.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please don't kill this before you learn more about it. I am really excited about the potential move, and I wish people could keep an open mind and learn more about the plans.

(1) it is too small

(2) it is over a mile from any metro

(3) it effectively expels all families from wards 6, 7, and 8 who can't afford to travel such a long distance.

(4) we would be co-locating with kingsbury students, which means it's even smaller than we think

(5) It is yet another move in a series of bad moves and bad decisions made by the administration.

(6) haven't we spent enough renovating Walter Reed and South Dakota? Why is our money being mismanaged so badly?

I don't care that you're excited or it's convenient for you. It is a terrible, terrible decision all around.

You forgot the money spent renovating Missouri Avenue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please don't kill this before you learn more about it. I am really excited about the potential move, and I wish people could keep an open mind and learn more about the plans.

(1) it is too small

(2) it is over a mile from any metro

(3) it effectively expels all families from wards 6, 7, and 8 who can't afford to travel such a long distance.

(4) we would be co-locating with kingsbury students, which means it's even smaller than we think

(5) It is yet another move in a series of bad moves and bad decisions made by the administration.

(6) haven't we spent enough renovating Walter Reed and South Dakota? Why is our money being mismanaged so badly?

I don't care that you're excited or it's convenient for you. It is a terrible, terrible decision all around.

You forgot the money spent renovating Missouri Avenue.

And making that addition. Thank you.

The principal stated that her dream location would:

"be in one optimum building with green space, a gym and enough room to still be a school no larger than 600 students."

Kingsbury holds 300 (and all indications are that we will be colocating with the special needs children of kingsbury). So why, oh why, are we moving again?

[Anonymous]

To be fair 14:51 it's to be a staged consolidation/move, and Kingsbury would be out in 6 years.

Not sure how they get around the building limit of 300 students though.

Also whether Kingsbury students are special needs or not is beside the point. They don't take up more space.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To be fair 14:51 it's to be a staged consolidation/move, and Kingsbury would be out in 6 years.

Not sure how they get around the building limit of 300 students though.

Also whether Kingsbury students are special needs or not is beside the point. They don't take up more space.

Lamb has several hundred families and the some handful of families that frequently use this board and are opposed to lamb and opposed to the move and insist on formulating a decision based on incomplete evidence cited by other uninformed individuals are commenting here. If you are a family looking into Lamb, this is not where I would come to get an educated, unbiased view. This is how Trump got elected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To be fair 14:51 it's to be a staged consolidation/move, and Kingsbury would be out in 6 years.

Not sure how they get around the building limit of 300 students though.

Also whether Kingsbury students are special needs or not is beside the point. They don't take up more space.

Lamb has several hundred families and the some handful of families that frequently use this board and are opposed to lamb and opposed to the move and insist on formulating a decision based on incomplete evidence cited by other uninformed individuals are commenting here. If you are a family looking into Lamb, this is not where I would come to get an educated, unbiased view. This is how Trump got elected.

So what do you think about the cover up of the teacher who the admin knew was under the radar for sexual molestation?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To be fair 14:51 it's to be a staged consolidation/move, and Kingsbury would be out in 6 years.

Not sure how they get around the building limit of 300 students though.

Also whether Kingsbury students are special needs or not is beside the point. They don't take up more space.

Lamb has several hundred families and the some handful of families that frequently use this board and are opposed to lamb and opposed to the move and insist on formulating a decision based on incomplete evidence cited by other uninformed individuals are commenting here. If you are a family looking into Lamb, this is not where I would come to get an educated, unbiased view. This is how Trump got elected.

Says someone who lives down the street from Kingsbury.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please don't kill this before you learn more about it. I am really excited about the potential move, and I wish people could keep an open mind and learn more about the plans.

+1, thank you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To be fair 14:51 it's to be a staged consolidation/move, and Kingsbury would be out in 6 years.

Not sure how they get around the building limit of 300 students though.

Also whether Kingsbury students are special needs or not is beside the point. They don't take up more space.

Lamb has several hundred families and the some handful of families that frequently use this board and are opposed to lamb and opposed to the move and insist on formulating a decision based on incomplete evidence cited by other uninformed individuals are commenting here. If you are a family looking into Lamb, this is not where I would come to get an educated, unbiased view. This is how Trump got elected.

Absolutely untrue. Go hang out at the South Dakota campus around pickup. Parents are furious about this poorly planned move. Just read the lamb listserv. People are NOT happy. Only a few people in Ward 3 really want this move to happen. Many people are concerned about the loss of diversity, and the fact that the school is just too darn small and ill-equipped for Lamb.

[Anonymous]

We can protest and state our dislike of the move but judging from prior moves the move to kingsbury is as close to a done deal as you can get, otherwise the administration would not bother to discuss the "potential" move. Remember when they asked parents to support increase in student population? They informed parents that they were planning to increase the student body and the next week that proposal was a done deal. That is how they operate and that is what we choose to tolerate for the sake of a good bilingual education. The board is powerless otherwise they would have suspended the administration after the sexual abuse arrest and subsequent scandal instead they are waiting for the school year to be over so that disgruntled parents give up and either leave the school or get tired of fighting. The reality is that they know that there will always be families that will do whatever to send their kid to LAMB and that affords them the luxury of not having to care much if people leave or stay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To be fair 14:51 it's to be a staged consolidation/move, and Kingsbury would be out in 6 years.

Not sure how they get around the building limit of 300 students though.

Also whether Kingsbury students are special needs or not is beside the point. They don't take up more space.

Lamb has several hundred families and the some handful of families that frequently use this board and are opposed to lamb and opposed to the move and insist on formulating a decision based on incomplete evidence cited by other uninformed individuals are commenting here. If you are a family looking into Lamb, this is not where I would come to get an educated, unbiased view. This is how Trump got elected.

Absolutely untrue. Go hang out at the South Dakota campus around pickup. Parents are furious about this poorly planned move. Just read the lamb listserv. People are NOT happy. Only a few people in Ward 3 really want this move to happen. Many people are concerned about the loss of diversity, and the fact that the school is just too darn small and ill-equipped for Lamb.

LAMB parents need to watch the charter school board hearing when the MV expansion was discussed. 245 parents signed letters opposing the expansion, and more than a dozen showed up to politely say that it shouldn't move forward. That proposal was pretty much a done deal, but now long-term charter observers aren't sure it's going to get approved.

You all have a voice and a venue. What the MV parents did took guts. Will LAMB parents do the same? https://livestream.com/dcpcsb/events/7408469

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To be fair 14:51 it's to be a staged consolidation/move, and Kingsbury would be out in 6 years.

Not sure how they get around the building limit of 300 students though.

Also whether Kingsbury students are special needs or not is beside the point. They don't take up more space.

Lamb has several hundred families and the some handful of families that frequently use this board and are opposed to lamb and opposed to the move and insist on formulating a decision based on incomplete evidence cited by other uninformed individuals are commenting here. If you are a family looking into Lamb, this is not where I would come to get an educated, unbiased view. This is how Trump got elected.

Absolutely untrue. Go hang out at the South Dakota campus around pickup. Parents are furious about this poorly planned move. Just read the lamb listserv. People are NOT happy. Only a few people in Ward 3 really want this move to happen. Many people are concerned about the loss of diversity, and the fact that the school is just too darn small and ill-equipped for Lamb.

Haha this is so laughable. I've only seen positive remarks on school listserv and everyone I've spoken to is excited. Maybe I don't get all the emails or maybe this comment is just false. Poor potential families will never know. I looked at this listserv obsessively when I was lotterying last year. Now that I'm on the inside I know this is all bs. You hear the opinion of the outspoken few and nothing more.