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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's only a weird screed if you're a L-T booster. There's no denying that Brent and Maury are ahead of Ludlow in almost every way, other than facilities in Brent's case (Ludlow's are better).

OP's question was is it worth paying 20-25% for housing, and probably giving up off-street parking, for a better school product.

Only s/he can answer the question.

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I think anyone who posts about schools primarily focused on how much PTOs raise has very different priorities from me. They’re also overstating how much Maury, at least, raises by a fair margin. In 2018-2019, only 5 schools — all WTOP — raised over $300K and only one raised $400K+ (WAY more at $1.4 million); maybe Brent had a big jump last year to get to $300K+, but it would have been the first year they did so; Maury does not raise that much. So it’s weird to focus on that and then inflate the figures. To make it seem like they’re saying anything more than Brent and Maury are richer (which they are) they point to aides in classrooms and a science teacher and arts programming. L-T has just as many aides as the other two because it was a Title I until this year, so all of those aides were paid for... so if the question is teacher numbers rather than just fundraising, this is a dumb comparison. Then there’s the science teacher, which L-T has. L-T also has very good arts programming (music & studio art especially), but I can’t directly compare to Brent, which I do hear has great arts programming. You yourself then admit that Ludlow has better facilities than Brent. At that point, ask yourself whether there’s something weird about someone telling you to go to a school because it’s parents raise more money? Anyway, FWIW, L-T’s departing principal — who was there for 4 years (longer than Brent’s or Maury’s current principals, which you wouldn’t guess from the post) — put lots of limits on how the PTO could fundraise because the PTO ran a big surplus because of the Title I funds. Now that those are gone, I bet the L-T PTO will be forced to raise more; it won’t make it a better school though.

Anyway, yes, Brent and Maury are richer. No, I don’t think they’re better schools for PK4 and 1st graders. Also, the test scores between them all have bounced around (when comparing similarly situated groups to each other), but there is certainly nothing to suggest Brent and Maury practically have gifted programming going in a way that L-T doesn’t. L-T supports pull outs for high achievers too, if that’s all the OP means. I would agree that the cohorts for that are bigger at Brent and Maury at present (though I’m not sure that’s true of 1st graders and it’s definitely not true of PK4ers), but since DCPs doesn’t allow real tracking, the actual size of the cohort doesn’t matter much if it’s all facilitated via pullouts... which, again, LT has.[/quote]

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