Ludlow-Taylor getting a new a new Principal
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Anonymous
^^^ DCPS troll. One bureaucrat who needs to get off the taxpayer dime because he's not a public servant. |
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Anonymous
If you're the same sockpuppet as before, I'm going to report your race-baiting rubbish. Troll. |
Anonymous
Let me rephrase it to better meet your standards (though I think the snark was quite justified by the thread) Here are the four takes on L-T 1. Its fine as it is. If some IB parents see how good it is, that's great, but if they don't that's okay too. Lets hope the new principal does not change it. 2. Making LT a school attended by more IB children is a worthy goal. That can be accomplished by IB parents willing it, and commiting somehow to all attending long enough to overcome the prisoners' dilemma that makes that difficult 3. Making LT a school atteneded by more IB children is a worthy goal, but requires more than parental will. DCPS should provide the kinds of improvements needed to attract IB parents - even if those improvements are not requested by current LT families 4. Makign LT a school attended by more IB children is a worthy goal, and the mostly likely path to that is the new principal - if she is more IB friendly, as she appears, that will induce more IB families to stay, which will in turn lead to more of the more anxious IB families staying, and to DCPS paying more attention to the requests of IB parents. |
Anonymous
I didn't say that it was. However, since the school zone that YOU CHOSE to purchase a home in has families across a wide socioeconomic and racial spectrum, if you would like your child to attend your neighborhood public school--which must serve ALL the children within its boundaries--then you are going to have to work to build a community that bridges cultural and economic differences. No easy task, but not impossible. There are parents across this city who are not sitting around whining and bitching. They are building school COMMUNITIES and part of that building process includes bridging those cultural and economic divides. The bonds are often fragile, but I have witnessed schools that are making it work even if they're just holding it together with bubble gum and tape. And understand, the process is often uncomfortable for the parents, no matter where they fall on the economic or racial spectrum. The long term residents you complain about are often from families who have lived in the District for generations and are having issues with the fall out from the changing landscape just like you. While their perspective may be different from yours, their feelings and concerns are no less valid. The schools that are most successful in this situation are the ones whose parent leaders have made the decision to work and do whatever is in their power to make their school the very best for EVERY child and every family-- IB or OOB; black, white or orange; rich or poor. The minute you start drawing lines, pointing fingers and making distinctions, your community falls apart. |
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Yea, but then the bona fide neighborhood young family community isn't nearly as diverse as the LT staff would have one believe. It's already around three-quarters affluent. We'll have to wait 6-7 years, until the 2020 US Census results are out, for DCPS to get to grips with this reality, but the facts are already on the ground. LT will continue to change, picking up steam as it does, as higher housing costs and an aging neighborhood AA population exert downward pressure on the supply of in-boundary low SES little kids. This will be true even if the new principal fails to provide robust, in-boundary-minded leadership. The only real question is will change come fast enough for your kid to reach the upper grades. Probably not, maybe so. Hint: it took Brent a decade to keep high SES families enrolling in pres3 to the upper grades.
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Anonymous
I forgot approach 5. The problem will solve itself through further demographic change |
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I like the idea of a back alley deal among white folks to take back 'their' neighborhood school by making a secret pact to stay. They could all get a tattoo or something, gangster style.
Let's stay and kick all those OOB out. Muhaha !!!!! |
Anonymous
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Oh grow up. The city and neighborhoods benefit when parents who live within a short walk of any particular school are happy with it.
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Anonymous
Whatever you need to tell yourself. Your defensiveness reeks. Maybe learn something about the Brent Neighbors group and the people in it before you spout your theories. |
Anonymous
NP here. I'm sure the "Brent Neighbors" are lovely. But if you are trying to make a comparison between the tiny Brent boundary (and Maury boundary for that matter) with no housing projects (and yes, we know about Ellen Wilson-- sorry, that's not Potomac Gardens by any stretch) and the boundaries for Payne, Tyler, Miner, Watkins…. well, whatever you need to tell yourself. |
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| LT has tiny boundary and no projects that I know of. |
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You are awesome. |
Anonymous
Sad you can't recognize satire. |