Ludlow-Taylor getting a new a new Principal

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The high-SES parents want to send their kids to school with their own. As neighbors send their kids to LT, the differentiation vs. pullouts problem will resolve itself--either there will be less need for pull-outs because the kids themselves are performing better overall, or the parents who actually send their kids to the school will make the pull-outs happen.

Posting incessantly on DCUM about the ways that LT might make itself more attractive to resistant IB families is one of the least effective ways to make those changes a reality.

x1000!! signed, IB LT parent

[Anonymous]

So you've commissioned a study on this? Let people post and discuss what they want. Some of us have actually sent our kids to LT, then bailed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So you've commissioned a study on this? Let people post and discuss what they want. Some of us have actually sent our kids to LT, then bailed.

Yes, and I think your opinions are very, very well represented on DCUM. Over and over and over, in fact. But they become less and less relevant as the school increasingly does not resemble the school you sent your child to. Plus, you're not coming back, so at some point, your feelings about how things might be different don't matter as much as the opinions of those who either are currently at the school or thinking about attending. I know there are some neighbors who simply enjoy sitting on the sidelines taking shots at the school even though it's counterproductive.

[Anonymous]

I'd come back if LT became a lot more like Maury in the next year or two. We're not crazy about our commute to a charter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread had scared me quite a bit, but now that school has started (my DC is in preK), and we have been to a few school's functions, I see that a lot of what's said here is almost hallucinatory.

Principal is nice, although not particularly warm (just my feeling, might be she is just reasonably stressed out).
Parents volunteered to set up a new website. There will be a new grow your vegetables/cook your meal program, for which parents have volunteered appliances and cookware.
There is an active listserv and active parents community that cares about the school and the teachers.

All the kids I have seen ( black and white, young and older) seem nice and well behaved. The classroom we are in was spotless and very well organized. I really can not yet see one thing wrong with the school.

For the skeptics worried about IB white V OOB black issues: it is true that preK is almost all white/Probably IB, and later grades almost all AA (IB or OOB not sure). But that goes only to show that *if* white high SES IB patents are so eager to exclude the "unwanted", all they have to do is enroll and there won't be one spot left for "the others".

Honestly, I love walking DC to school and hate a commute to school so much, that unless something really bad happens, we will be there for at least 5-6 years. I think short commute to school trumps absence of chess club or great AV system.

Your way of thinking is so ugly that you need to have it spelled out for you. It's one thing to want to retain IB families, or those who start from the early years (one of the secrets of the high-performing immersion schools is that they get their kids in young and educate them so that by the time they get to the testing years they know their students have a solid background). That's not what you're talking about though. It's something else entirely to see AA students as "unwanted" and "the others."

You're a really awful human being.

For the record, that's not my way of thinking, I was echoing the way of many who have posted here. Perhaps you did not appreciate the irony in my post

[Anonymous]

ok someone stir the pot...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ok someone stir the pot...

OR PP - how 'bout you find ANYTHING else to do. Pay attention to your kids, have ANOTHER glass of wine, do some god damn macrame... But get a life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread had scared me quite a bit, but now that school has started (my DC is in preK), and we have been to a few school's functions, I see that a lot of what's said here is almost hallucinatory.

Principal is nice, although not particularly warm (just my feeling, might be she is just reasonably stressed out).
Parents volunteered to set up a new website. There will be a new grow your vegetables/cook your meal program, for which parents have volunteered appliances and cookware.
There is an active listserv and active parents community that cares about the school and the teachers.

All the kids I have seen ( black and white, young and older) seem nice and well behaved. The classroom we are in was spotless and very well organized. I really can not yet see one thing wrong with the school.

For the skeptics worried about IB white V OOB black issues: it is true that preK is almost all white/Probably IB, and later grades almost all AA (IB or OOB not sure). But that goes only to show that *if* white high SES IB patents are so eager to exclude the "unwanted", all they have to do is enroll and there won't be one spot left for "the others".

Honestly, I love walking DC to school and hate a commute to school so much, that unless something really bad happens, we will be there for at least 5-6 years. I think short commute to school trumps absence of chess club or great AV system.

Your way of thinking is so ugly that you need to have it spelled out for you. It's one thing to want to retain IB families, or those who start from the early years (one of the secrets of the high-performing immersion schools is that they get their kids in young and educate them so that by the time they get to the testing years they know their students have a solid background). That's not what you're talking about though. It's something else entirely to see AA students as "unwanted" and "the others."

You're a really awful human being.

It's not just high-performing immersion schools, and it's not exactly a secret. Higher performing Hill schools closely monitor the achievement gap between IB, largely high-SES students who start in PK3, and OOB, lower SES students who first enroll in upper grade classes. This gap, coupled with a middle school exodus after third and fourth grades, make it virtually impossible for Hill schools to compete in terms of test scores with JKLMM schools, no matter how well the IB students perform. But you will never hear anyone from DCPS, the Mayor's office or City Council acknowledge this truism.

[Anonymous]

Janney key Lafayette Murch Mann?

[Anonymous]

Yep. Probably should include Stoddart in the list as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd come back if LT became a lot more like Maury in the next year or two. We're not crazy about our commute to a charter.

"Like Maury" how? LT haters often hold Maury up as a shining example, but I can't figure out why it's supposed to be so much better. I know this will sound like race-baiting, but the biggest difference I see is that Maury is whiter than LT. I'm hoping that's not what people mean, but I can't figure out what else they're getting at.

[Anonymous]

Maury 55% IB 25% FARMS
LT 21% IB 40%+ FARMS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maury 55% IB 25% FARMS
LT 21% IB 40%+ FARMS

Isn't below 33% FARMS considered the magic number to improve outcomes for both FARMS and non-FARMS kids? Sounds like LT is not that far off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maury 55% IB 25% FARMS
LT 21% IB 40%+ FARMS

Isn't below 33% FARMS considered the magic number to improve outcomes for both FARMS and non-FARMS kids? Sounds like LT is not that far off.

LT already has very strong outcomes (by Ward 6 standards, if not Ward 3 ones) in the upper grades (which apparently have more kids receiving FARMs than the ECE years).

[Anonymous]

Except DCPS doesn't disclose in the school profile the actual number of FARM eligible students by virtue of the CEO. Because LT is a Title I school, all we inow is that the percent falls somewhere between 40 and 99 percent. In any event, i thought the magical number was 20 percent based on the one study from Monthomery County.