Ludlow-Taylor principal suddenly leaving?

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Anonymous wrote:I knew this was going to be a hot stinking mess. Of course LT will course correct but as someone who has experienced that toxic dysfunction in that building first hand I can say that what looks good on the outside isn't always what you get once you take a bite. Trust me when I tell you that whomever the internal candidate is has been laying in wait for years. LT gets who they want in leadership positions. If that person is not a puppet they oust them and bring in someone who will go with the program. The school has very involved families and highly engaged children but there are a handful of longtime staff that are really running the school behind the scenes. It will be interesting to see who emerges and to revisit this thread in a couple of years.

The internal candidate isn’t a secret. She’s been mentioned repeatedly by name. It’s Ms. Johnson, who is currently the head of ECE.

She was one of the people I thought it might be so yeah. What I said stands. As I said, there are a handful of staff who have been running the school behind the scene for years. Mrs. Johnson has a good head on her shoulders and I wish her well as she moves into this new role.

As a newish parent at the school, I hope she gets it. I don’t know her, but she has been the competent adult on every zoom about the unfolding leadership mess and DL. Much more so than the interim principal or outgoing AP. I think the interim principal seems OK. She has been dealt an incredibly difficult hand and the staff really does seem to be pulling together behind her, so I figure she can’t be as over her head as she seems in zoom calls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What made Cobb so dreadful? The staff loved her and most of the long standing staff came in under her. She also brought the school to where it is now and the principals that followed her just maintained what she did. What is your personal issue with her?

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Anonymous wrote:Maury parent. 4 years is nice, but not long enough to stabilize Ludlow. Principal Garvey stayed 10 years for us. Feel bad for you guys.

And we feel bad for your MS path. So we're even I guess.

Wow. Petty!

Mine was intentionally passive aggressive. The PP's unintentionally oozed defensiveness, condescension, and faux superiority. Or is it not OK to return fire if the OP is probably white and UMC?

Get a grip, I'm the PP who mentioned principal Garvey. I'm not white. We're IB for Ludlow but lotteried into Maury years ago. We know all about the Ludlow principals from the dreadful Cobbs on. Maury was darn lucky that Garvey stayed for a decade, almost unheard of in DCPS (very strong principal, DCPS outsider staying a very long time). Comment wasn't in fact snarky.

You have no idea what you started!!! Here come the ax grinders. Spoiler alert: it will end with unsubstantiated claims about her relationship with white families and failing to serve "inbounds" kids (you can guess what that means).

[Anonymous]

Did you ever deal with Cobbs? We did and left Ludlow after a year during her tenure. She was there to serve what she liked to refer to as "her kind." Translation low SES AA students and their families. She was also rude, a reverse race baiter and dismissive of UMC in-boundary parents as a general rule. My spouse and I are not white, but we found her offensive. Yes, I know she did some good things management-wise, which paved the way for Ludlow to emerge as a primarily in-boundary school in the near future, from here in 2020. We were thrilled when she retired to Colorado.

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Inbounds for Ludlow means overwhelmingly UMC and mostly white here in 2020.

If you don't like those demographics, you can always move to a city where by-right neighborhood schools haven't existed since the 70s e.g. San Fran or Boston. But you chose to live here, ax grinder.

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Anonymous wrote:Did you ever deal with Cobbs? We did and left Ludlow after a year during her tenure. She was there to serve what she liked to refer to as "her kind." Translation low SES AA students and their families. She was also rude, a reverse race baiter and dismissive of UMC in-boundary parents as a general rule. My spouse and I are not white, but we found her offensive. Yes, I know she did some good things management-wise, which paved the way for Ludlow to emerge as a primarily in-boundary school in the near future, from here in 2020. We were thrilled when she retired to Colorado.

Anyone else ever notice how many posts on DCUM declare themselves not to be white in order to defend a position? If all of these people are to be believed then the DCUM readership must be like 80% non-white.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Did you ever deal with Cobbs? We did and left Ludlow after a year during her tenure. She was there to serve what she liked to refer to as "her kind." Translation low SES AA students and their families. She was also rude, a reverse race baiter and dismissive of UMC in-boundary parents as a general rule. My spouse and I are not white, but we found her offensive. Yes, I know she did some good things management-wise, which paved the way for Ludlow to emerge as a primarily in-boundary school in the near future, from here in 2020. We were thrilled when she retired to Colorado.

Anyone else ever notice how many posts on DCUM declare themselves not to be white in order to defend a position? If all of these people are to be believed then the DCUM readership must be like 80% non-white.

I have noticed this and a lot of other threads and sometimes wonder if DCMUM is really only about 20 people posting non stop about the same things in every thread.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Did you ever deal with Cobbs? We did and left Ludlow after a year during her tenure. She was there to serve what she liked to refer to as "her kind." Translation low SES AA students and their families. She was also rude, a reverse race baiter and dismissive of UMC in-boundary parents as a general rule. My spouse and I are not white, but we found her offensive. Yes, I know she did some good things management-wise, which paved the way for Ludlow to emerge as a primarily in-boundary school in the near future, from here in 2020. We were thrilled when she retired to Colorado.

Anyone else ever notice how many posts on DCUM declare themselves not to be white in order to defend a position? If all of these people are to be believed then the DCUM readership must be like 80% non-white.

I have noticed this and a lot of other threads and sometimes wonder if DCMUM is really only about 20 people posting non stop about the same things in every thread.

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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Did you ever deal with Cobbs? We did and left Ludlow after a year during her tenure. She was there to serve what she liked to refer to as "her kind." Translation low SES AA students and their families. She was also rude, a reverse race baiter and dismissive of UMC in-boundary parents as a general rule. My spouse and I are not white, but we found her offensive. Yes, I know she did some good things management-wise, which paved the way for Ludlow to emerge as a primarily in-boundary school in the near future, from here in 2020. We were thrilled when she retired to Colorado.

Anyone else ever notice how many posts on DCUM declare themselves not to be white in order to defend a position? If all of these people are to be believed then the DCUM readership must be like 80% non-white.

If what you are implying about people masking their true feelings is accurate, then it has implications at the ballot box regardless of what the current poll numbers say.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did you ever deal with Cobbs? We did and left Ludlow after a year during her tenure. She was there to serve what she liked to refer to as "her kind." Translation low SES AA students and their families. She was also rude, a reverse race baiter and dismissive of UMC in-boundary parents as a general rule. My spouse and I are not white, but we found her offensive. Yes, I know she did some good things management-wise, which paved the way for Ludlow to emerge as a primarily in-boundary school in the near future, from here in 2020. We were thrilled when she retired to Colorado.

I heard this secondhand when we also did our one year at the school, in 2011. Cobbs was leading a meeting to educate current PK parents about K and beyond. During the event a UMC white parent asked a question and referred to the possibility of not continuing to K. Her response: "Well, we really don't care if you stay or leave." At that point I believe total enrollment for K and above was something like 90 students.

It's a totally different school now, not just in terms of the demographics but also the quality of the leadership.

[Anonymous]

It wasn't a secret that Cobbs wasn't interested in welcoming in-boundary families, or in retaining them. She barely tolerated them for 7 long years. That's why Ludlow is behind Maury and Brent in emerging as an in-boundary school. Glad to see Ludlow catching up and hope the leadership situation stabilizes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Did you ever deal with Cobbs? We did and left Ludlow after a year during her tenure. She was there to serve what she liked to refer to as "her kind." Translation low SES AA students and their families. She was also rude, a reverse race baiter and dismissive of UMC in-boundary parents as a general rule. My spouse and I are not white, but we found her offensive. Yes, I know she did some good things management-wise, which paved the way for Ludlow to emerge as a primarily in-boundary school in the near future, from here in 2020. We were thrilled when she retired to Colorado.

I heard this secondhand when we also did our one year at the school, in 2011. Cobbs was leading a meeting to educate current PK parents about K and beyond. During the event a UMC white parent asked a question and referred to the possibility of not continuing to K. Her response: "Well, we really don't care if you stay or leave." At that point I believe total enrollment for K and above was something like 90 students.

It's a totally different school now, not just in terms of the demographics but also the quality of the leadership.

In 2011 the enrollment at LT was 225. And it has increased every single year since.

I don't have kids at LT and I didn't know Cobb, but I'm really interested to hear how the Cobb-detractors square the edges of a circle that had the school's enrollment, retention, test scores, IB ratios and % of white kids (which seems to be the measure people secretly care about) all trended favorably while she was there. Is the argument that it happened in spite of her?

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Anonymous wrote:Did you ever deal with Cobbs? We did and left Ludlow after a year during her tenure. She was there to serve what she liked to refer to as "her kind." Translation low SES AA students and their families. She was also rude, a reverse race baiter and dismissive of UMC in-boundary parents as a general rule. My spouse and I are not white, but we found her offensive. Yes, I know she did some good things management-wise, which paved the way for Ludlow to emerge as a primarily in-boundary school in the near future, from here in 2020. We were thrilled when she retired to Colorado.

I heard this secondhand when we also did our one year at the school, in 2011. Cobbs was leading a meeting to educate current PK parents about K and beyond. During the event a UMC white parent asked a question and referred to the possibility of not continuing to K. Her response: "Well, we really don't care if you stay or leave." At that point I believe total enrollment for K and above was something like 90 students.

It's a totally different school now, not just in terms of the demographics but also the quality of the leadership.

sounds like a clueless and annoying question from a privileged Pk parent.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Did you ever deal with Cobbs? We did and left Ludlow after a year during her tenure. She was there to serve what she liked to refer to as "her kind." Translation low SES AA students and their families. She was also rude, a reverse race baiter and dismissive of UMC in-boundary parents as a general rule. My spouse and I are not white, but we found her offensive. Yes, I know she did some good things management-wise, which paved the way for Ludlow to emerge as a primarily in-boundary school in the near future, from here in 2020. We were thrilled when she retired to Colorado.

I heard this secondhand when we also did our one year at the school, in 2011. Cobbs was leading a meeting to educate current PK parents about K and beyond. During the event a UMC white parent asked a question and referred to the possibility of not continuing to K. Her response: "Well, we really don't care if you stay or leave." At that point I believe total enrollment for K and above was something like 90 students.

It's a totally different school now, not just in terms of the demographics but also the quality of the leadership.

sounds like a clueless and annoying question from a privileged Pk parent.

I was't there, but person who asked it was a huge LT cheerleader, at least up that point. And what kinds of principal doesn't want to at least pay lip service to encourage parents to like their school enough to not drop out? That doesn't mean "catering" to them or changing policies.

As for the test scores, yes, those were impressive and reflected well on the school, especially in the older (testing) grades. But I can only say that our child's experience in PK was quite negative and harmful, because of an awful teacher (who has since left).

[Anonymous]

Based on enrollment, lottery results and test scores LT seems to be doing very well without all of the DCUM detractors. They have moved on without you; maybe time for you all to also move on?

[Anonymous]

You are funny!

Anonymous wrote:Based on enrollment, lottery results and test scores LT seems to be doing very well without all of the DCUM detractors. They have moved on without you; maybe time for you all to also move on?