Ludlow-Taylor getting a new a new Principal

[Anonymous]

Get over yourself, most in-boundary families still use LT as a place holder before decamping to a charter or OOB spot, often for language immersion. I'll be the first to cheer if that changes under the new princpal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get over yourself, most in-boundary families still use LT as a place holder before decamping to a charter or OOB spot, often for language immersion. I'll be the first to cheer if that changes under the new princpal.

good thing all those supernaturally gifted children will be able to catch up on immersion with the kids who had a 2 year headstart. But hey bigshot - you can always get a tutor or summer in _____ country to get caught up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get over yourself, most in-boundary families still use LT as a place holder before decamping to a charter or OOB spot, often for language immersion. I'll be the first to cheer if that changes under the new princpal.

good thing all those supernaturally gifted children will be able to catch up on immersion with the kids who had a 2 year headstart. But hey bigshot - you can always get a tutor or summer in _____ country to get caught up.

interesting idea - probably cheaper and a lot more fun than moving to upper NW.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get over yourself, most in-boundary families still use LT as a place holder before decamping to a charter or OOB spot, often for language immersion. I'll be the first to cheer if that changes under the new princpal.

good thing all those supernaturally gifted children will be able to catch up on immersion with the kids who had a 2 year headstart. But hey bigshot - you can always get a tutor or summer in _____ country to get caught up.

Don't be dense -- they use ps3 because yu ying starts at pk4.

[Anonymous]

Never mind the fact that some in-bound families speak the immersion school languages. We know parents who used Ludlow for two years, until they cracked the Tyler SI lottery. Their child spoke good Spanish on arrival. We know another who left for prek at Stokes, French-speaking family.

[Anonymous]

We are IB for L-T (oldest starting PK3 2016) and as of now L-T would be our top choice UNLESS we get into an immersion school. It has nothing to do with L-T. Our ranking would be the same if we were IB for Brent or Maury. We like the convenience of going to our local school. The only programmatic difference that would make a longer commute worth if for us would be language immersion. I think that this is a pretty common calculus and doesn't necessarily say anything about the IB school. Language immersion is a desirable curricular choice. People choose it because they want to give their kids the chance to learn another language. It is often not any more complicated than that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If anybody wants to flash forward armed with a feel for what sort of achievement gap LT is likely to be grappling with once a critical mass of high SES kids hits the testing grades, the stats below may be of use. I wish that DCPS furnished the stats to make that high SES kids of all races, but they don't.

As of summer 2013, only three Cap Hill DCPS neighborhood schools had enough white kids for scores to be pulled out by subgroup, Brent, Watkins and Stuart Hobson. Maury will join the group in several weeks, when 2014 CAS scores are made public.

The stats speak for themselves, making a strong case for pullout groups. If you disagree, tell us why.

Brent 2013:
AA students Testing Advanced, Math: 14%
AA Students Testing Advanced, Reading: 14%
White students Testing Advanced, Math: 24% (1.7 x rate of AA)
White Students Testing Advanced, Reading: 46% (3.3 x rate of AA)

Watkins 2013:
AA students Testing Advanced, Math: 11%
AA students Testing Advanced, Reading: 11%
White students Testing Advanced, Math: 64% (5.8 x rate of AA)
White Students Testing Advanced, Reading: 59% (5.3 x rate of AA)

Stuart Hobson 2013:
AA students Testing Advanced, Math: 9%
AA students Testing Advanced, Reading: 8%
White students Testing Advanced, Math: 59% (6.2 x rate of AA)
White Students Testing Advanced, Reading: 51% (6.3 x rate of AA)

Ludlow Taylor 2013:
AA students Testing Advanced, Math: 21%
AA students Testing Advanced, Reading: 17%

PROJECTED ACHIEVEMENT GAP AT LT BASED ON WATKINS’ 2013 SCORES:

White students Testing Advanced, Math: 64% (3 x rate of AA)
White Students Testing Advanced, Reading: 59% (3.5 x rate of AA)

And they say there is not need for segregation of kids based on achievement. I can't think how a poor teacher can manage a class so diverse.
I am NOT for G/T (who really is G/T, too few indeed), but definitely more homogenous classes. Segregate by score, not by SES or God-forbid, race.
If score= race= low SES, shame on you DCPS. But let's not pretend everything is fine just because reality sucks.

[Anonymous]

I don't know why parents on dcum want to use the Cas test as a screening tool. In other districts they use IQ tests.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are IB for L-T (oldest starting PK3 2016) and as of now L-T would be our top choice UNLESS we get into an immersion school. It has nothing to do with L-T. Our ranking would be the same if we were IB for Brent or Maury. We like the convenience of going to our local school. The only programmatic difference that would make a longer commute worth if for us would be language immersion. I think that this is a pretty common calculus and doesn't necessarily say anything about the IB school. Language immersion is a desirable curricular choice. People choose it because they want to give their kids the chance to learn another language. It is often not any more complicated than that.

Interesting. Yet few JKLM and Brent families are choosing immersion because their push factors aren't nearly as strong as their pull factors in-boundary. I've seen how Hill parents tend to swear by immersion for little kids, but can't swing it in the long run, particularly if their children are advanced learners or they go with Tyler SI (which lacks a viable immersion MS option). Even the best immersion programs in DC don't have the hottest test scores, very impressive facilities, or nearly enough native speakers to offer dual immersion (other than Oyster). But yes, some Hill families, particularly those where a parent speaks decent Spanish and can reinforce at home, do simply want immersion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get over yourself, most in-boundary families still use LT as a place holder before decamping to a charter or OOB spot, often for language immersion. I'll be the first to cheer if that changes under the new princpal.

good thing all those supernaturally gifted children will be able to catch up on immersion with the kids who had a 2 year headstart. But hey bigshot - you can always get a tutor or summer in _____ country to get caught up.

Don't be dense -- they use ps3 because yu ying starts at pk4.

yeah -- at that explains why PK4 is as fully IB as PK3 at LT. Nice try

[Anonymous]

^^ not specifically referencing LT, but many Hill parents use ps3 DCPS as a cheaper alternative to daycare or nanny while waiting for St. P, CHDS, or immersion charters that don't start until pk4 (which I think is destabilizing to local DCPS, just like charters starting at 5th grade).

-- signed neighborhood LT booster with an older child (not in this fight)

[Anonymous]

I am a staff member at LT and just stumbled across this. One word. Wow. Interested to see what my coworkers think...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^ not specifically referencing LT, but many Hill parents use ps3 DCPS as a cheaper alternative to daycare or nanny while waiting for St. P, CHDS, or immersion charters that don't start until pk4 (which I think is destabilizing to local DCPS, just like charters starting at 5th grade).

-- signed neighborhood LT booster with an older child (not in this fight)

really depends on the school. Doesn't even remotely happen at Brent, SWS or Maury. the retention rate for ECE is like 99%. The peel off is later elementary for 5th, not ECE

-- signed non- immersion charter parent/booster

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a staff member at LT and just stumbled across this. One word. Wow. Interested to see what my coworkers think...

They'll surely think that most of the opinions expressed are those of a handful of racist posters with an axe to grind. Simply not the case when you look at in-boundary percentages by grade (hard to do, since DCPS is not in the habit of disseminating relevant stats, so "white" ends up serving as a proxy for "bona fide in-boundary" and high SES, which sucks).

If you will, please direct the new principal's attention to this hard-hitting thread - it's not nearly as nasty as the one Jeff, the site administrator, just shut down about dumping the Cluster.

Some of us in the early gentrification crowd (at least a decade in the neighborhood) now keep mum on almost all L-T related issues in the neighborhood because we're weary of being accused of being racist when we voice concerns. Kindly look at the test scores and projections posted. Times they are a changin'.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a staff member at LT and just stumbled across this. One word. Wow. Interested to see what my coworkers think...

They'll surely think that most of the opinions expressed are those of a handful of racist posters with an axe to grind. Simply not the case when you look at in-boundary percentages by grade (hard to do, since DCPS is not in the habit of disseminating relevant stats, so "white" ends up serving as a proxy for "bona fide in-boundary" and high SES, which sucks).

If you will, please direct the new principal's attention to this hard-hitting thread - it's not nearly as nasty as the one Jeff, the site administrator, just shut down about dumping the Cluster.

Some of us in the early gentrification crowd (at least a decade in the neighborhood) now keep mum on almost all L-T related issues in the neighborhood because we're weary of being accused of being racist when we voice concerns. Kindly look at the test scores and projections posted. Times they are a changin'.

Have you experienced this response from the staff in the past or is this an assumption?