LAMB Lottery

[Anonymous]

The LAMB lottery is Friday. A few questions: Do people actually go in person? How long until they post results online? Is the Post article giving anyone else pause about their administrative team? If by a long shot, we get in, do we have some time to commit (ie, until after the MySchoolDC results come out?)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The LAMB lottery is Friday. A few questions: Do people actually go in person? How long until they post results online? Is the Post article giving anyone else pause about their administrative team? If by a long shot, we get in, do we have some time to commit (ie, until after the MySchoolDC results come out?)

Yes some people go in person.

Usually results are posted a day or so later.

Yes they give people time to enroll/decline. You won't be forced to make a decision prior to the MSDC results.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The LAMB lottery is Friday. A few questions: Do people actually go in person? How long until they post results online? Is the Post article giving anyone else pause about their administrative team? If by a long shot, we get in, do we have some time to commit (ie, until after the MySchoolDC results come out?)

Yes, I went in person last year and there were about 30 people there. They don't actually tell you who gets a seat - they just put applicants in order. Yes, the sexual assault is giving me pause. And yes, you do have time to commit after being made an offer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The LAMB lottery is Friday. A few questions: Do people actually go in person? How long until they post results online? Is the Post article giving anyone else pause about their administrative team? If by a long shot, we get in, do we have some time to commit (ie, until after the MySchoolDC results come out?)

Yes some people go in person.

Usually results are posted a day or so later.

Yes they give people time to enroll/decline. You won't be forced to make a decision prior to the MSDC results.

Last year the lottery took place on a Monday and the results were posted Friday afternoon. More than a day or two, for sure.

[Anonymous]

I'm a current LAMB parent, and I wouldn't let the situation keep you from accepting a spot at LAMB. Similar situations have occurred at Beauvoir, GDS, Sidwell, Oyster, etc. LAMB is a fantastic school where one bad apple did a very bad thing. If anything, the situation makes me questions the MPD's investigative skills. However, I'm even willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. The problem with these predators is that they're very sneaky. Also, LAMB is doing a total review of its policies due to this incident. I'm sure that by next school year it will be one of the safest schools (just like flying on an airline after one of its planes crashed).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a current LAMB parent, and I wouldn't let the situation keep you from accepting a spot at LAMB. Similar situations have occurred at Beauvoir, GDS, Sidwell, Oyster, etc. LAMB is a fantastic school where one bad apple did a very bad thing. If anything, the situation makes me questions the MPD's investigative skills. However, I'm even willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. The problem with these predators is that they're very sneaky. Also, LAMB is doing a total review of its policies due to this incident. I'm sure that by next school year it will be one of the safest schools (just like flying on an airline after one of its planes crashed).

Emphasis added. The privilege these HRCS parents think they share with the upper middle classes is astonishing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a current LAMB parent, and I wouldn't let the situation keep you from accepting a spot at LAMB. Similar situations have occurred at Beauvoir, GDS, Sidwell, Oyster, etc. LAMB is a fantastic school where one bad apple did a very bad thing. If anything, the situation makes me questions the MPD's investigative skills. However, I'm even willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. The problem with these predators is that they're very sneaky. Also, LAMB is doing a total review of its policies due to this incident. I'm sure that by next school year it will be one of the safest schools (just like flying on an airline after one of its planes crashed).

My sincerest sympathy for the nightmare you are probably experiencing as a parent. My concerns with the organizational skills and communication from the admin team at LAMB pre-dated the incident.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a current LAMB parent, and I wouldn't let the situation keep you from accepting a spot at LAMB. Similar situations have occurred at Beauvoir, GDS, Sidwell, Oyster, etc. LAMB is a fantastic school where one bad apple did a very bad thing. If anything, the situation makes me questions the MPD's investigative skills. However, I'm even willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. The problem with these predators is that they're very sneaky. Also, LAMB is doing a total review of its policies due to this incident. I'm sure that by next school year it will be one of the safest schools (just like flying on an airline after one of its planes crashed).

Emphasis added. The privilege these HRCS parents think they share with the upper middle classes is astonishing.

Huh? What on Earth are you taking about?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a current LAMB parent, and I wouldn't let the situation keep you from accepting a spot at LAMB. Similar situations have occurred at Beauvoir, GDS, Sidwell, Oyster, etc. LAMB is a fantastic school where one bad apple did a very bad thing. If anything, the situation makes me questions the MPD's investigative skills. However, I'm even willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. The problem with these predators is that they're very sneaky. Also, LAMB is doing a total review of its policies due to this incident. I'm sure that by next school year it will be one of the safest schools (just like flying on an airline after one of its planes crashed).

My sincerest sympathy for the nightmare you are probably experiencing as a parent. My concerns with the organizational skills and communication from the admin team at LAMB pre-dated the incident.

A train wreck analogy would have been more appropriate. The predator situation is being handled very poorly and parents' morale is very poor as a result. The plea deal the accused will likely receive (that's being orchestrated by his high power attorney as we speak) has furthered our distress. The school has been slow to respond, dishonest (they lied about a prior investigation) and sadly the robust open communication necessary to move things forward is happening on DCUM- not on the parent list-serve or at the school. Because many parents are considering pulling their kids out, you'll find many people cheerleading the school so that more people enroll. There's lots of the "admin. is fixing policies, etc... to make the school safe". If this is happening you won't hear about that at the school. There have been "workshops" set up, which I will not attend based upon the draconian process of the trainwreck town hall. So, if you consider enrolling you child (and I know many won't be deterred due to lack of choice in the city) do so with eyes wide open and readiness to go to bat for your child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a current LAMB parent, and I wouldn't let the situation keep you from accepting a spot at LAMB. Similar situations have occurred at Beauvoir, GDS, Sidwell, Oyster, etc. LAMB is a fantastic school where one bad apple did a very bad thing. If anything, the situation makes me questions the MPD's investigative skills. However, I'm even willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. The problem with these predators is that they're very sneaky. Also, LAMB is doing a total review of its policies due to this incident. I'm sure that by next school year it will be one of the safest schools (just like flying on an airline after one of its planes crashed).

My sincerest sympathy for the nightmare you are probably experiencing as a parent. My concerns with the organizational skills and communication from the admin team at LAMB pre-dated the incident.

A train wreck analogy would have been more appropriate. The predator situation is being handled very poorly and parents' morale is very poor as a result. The plea deal the accused will likely receive (that's being orchestrated by his high power attorney as we speak) has furthered our distress. The school has been slow to respond, dishonest (they lied about a prior investigation) and sadly the robust open communication necessary to move things forward is happening on DCUM- not on the parent list-serve or at the school. Because many parents are considering pulling their kids out, you'll find many people cheerleading the school so that more people enroll. There's lots of the "admin. is fixing policies, etc... to make the school safe". If this is happening you won't hear about that at the school. There have been "workshops" set up, which I will not attend based upon the draconian process of the trainwreck town hall. So, if you consider enrolling you child (and I know many won't be deterred due to lack of choice in the city) do so with eyes wide open and readiness to go to bat for your child.

Another parent here, and this is not my experience at all. Yes, parents are hurt, but I think the administration's hands are tied in a lot of ways. They didn't lie to us but were instead very careful about the did and could say, and I think everyone is doing the best the can given the duration.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a current LAMB parent, and I wouldn't let the situation keep you from accepting a spot at LAMB. Similar situations have occurred at Beauvoir, GDS, Sidwell, Oyster, etc. LAMB is a fantastic school where one bad apple did a very bad thing. If anything, the situation makes me questions the MPD's investigative skills. However, I'm even willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. The problem with these predators is that they're very sneaky. Also, LAMB is doing a total review of its policies due to this incident. I'm sure that by next school year it will be one of the safest schools (just like flying on an airline after one of its planes crashed).

Emphasis added. The privilege these HRCS parents think they share with the upper middle classes is astonishing.

The privilege of attending a school that covers upnsex abuse? That's one you rich people can keep

Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a current LAMB parent, and I wouldn't let the situation keep you from accepting a spot at LAMB. Similar situations have occurred at Beauvoir, GDS, Sidwell, Oyster, etc. LAMB is a fantastic school where one bad apple did a very bad thing. If anything, the situation makes me questions the MPD's investigative skills. However, I'm even willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. The problem with these predators is that they're very sneaky. Also, LAMB is doing a total review of its policies due to this incident. I'm sure that by next school year it will be one of the safest schools (just like flying on an airline after one of its planes crashed).

My sincerest sympathy for the nightmare you are probably experiencing as a parent. My concerns with the organizational skills and communication from the admin team at LAMB pre-dated the incident.

A train wreck analogy would have been more appropriate. The predator situation is being handled very poorly and parents' morale is very poor as a result. The plea deal the accused will likely receive (that's being orchestrated by his high power attorney as we speak) has furthered our distress. The school has been slow to respond, dishonest (they lied about a prior investigation) and sadly the robust open communication necessary to move things forward is happening on DCUM- not on the parent list-serve or at the school. Because many parents are considering pulling their kids out, you'll find many people cheerleading the school so that more people enroll. There's lots of the "admin. is fixing policies, etc... to make the school safe". If this is happening you won't hear about that at the school. There have been "workshops" set up, which I will not attend based upon the draconian process of the trainwreck town hall. So, if you consider enrolling you child (and I know many won't be deterred due to lack of choice in the city) do so with eyes wide open and readiness to go to bat for your child.

Another parent here, and this is not my experience at all. Yes, parents are hurt, but I think the administration's hands are tied in a lot of ways. They didn't lie to us but were instead very careful about the did and could say, and I think everyone is doing the best the can given the duration.

Their hands were not tied at all in 2015. And the school's lawyer clearly obfuscated the facts at the town hall meeting and suggested that the only concerns that would have been worth taking seriously would have had to come from a student? Several teachers raised concerns about his overly familiar manner with students before and after the incident that was investigated in 2015 and nothing changed.

I agree with the PP who said that things are now, finally, changing, and that LAMB is likely to be both well run after this. I also think there will be more new students admitted this cycle than there have been in years.

People with a high risk tolerance may be rewarded.

[Anonymous]

If anyone goes this morning, can you post the initials of those let in and the number of non-sibling PK3, PK4 and K if it happens slots?

(Someone did this for Stokes a few years ago)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a current LAMB parent, and I wouldn't let the situation keep you from accepting a spot at LAMB. Similar situations have occurred at Beauvoir, GDS, Sidwell, Oyster, etc. LAMB is a fantastic school where one bad apple did a very bad thing. If anything, the situation makes me questions the MPD's investigative skills. However, I'm even willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. The problem with these predators is that they're very sneaky. Also, LAMB is doing a total review of its policies due to this incident. I'm sure that by next school year it will be one of the safest schools (just like flying on an airline after one of its planes crashed).

Emphasis added. The privilege these HRCS parents think they share with the upper middle classes is astonishing.

The privilege of attending a school that covers upnsex abuse? That's one you rich people can keep

Thanks.

I think the reason why the list of schools contain "rich" people is that they investigate and listen to their kids and push the administration around. Poor kids tend to have families who are worrying about bigger things and would welcome any teacher interest in a child.

-grew up poor

[Anonymous]

hopefully they won't post the kids' full names on the website like they did 2 years ago. Why LAMB insists on staying out of the exceedingly well-run MSDC site, I do not know.