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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, I don’t think the leadership is great. But I think the teachers are incredible — the classroom teacher turnover is very low compared to comparable schools; many have been there 10+ years — and the community of families is amazing. The PTO is as strong as at any school and that plus the teachers makes up for the mediocre admin. Oh, the afterschool clubs and aftercare are all organized by teachers and the offerings are better than the “fancier” schools nearby. There’s a choice of like 8 clubs every day plus normal aftercare (which is cheap comparatively).

We are definitely staying. Didn’t even play the lottery (and my older kid is at an age where we could have jumped to somewhere if we wanted to).

Any specific questions? I’m feeling really high on the school after International Night yesterday. It was really unbelievably great.[/quote]

OP here. We were matched for K! We are currently in the Cluster and really love the family and teacher community, so I have very high expectations on making a switch. I have always had a fondness for Ludlow (hence why we ranked them number 2!) and know about the school’s fantastic offerings and programs. Only reason we lotteried at all was for stronger language and music options - we have quite the little songbird and Spanish is important to us. We don’t want to keep doing school hopscotch - wherever we decide for K is where we’d like to stay through middle for the sake of her development and friendships - barring some dramatic series of events. We also want to create sibling preference for our young toddler with one drop off! We do love that LTES feeds back into the Cluster for middle, too. Seems like a win win but I want to be sure we aren’t wearing blinders. [/quote]

I don’t know if things have settled down at Watkins recently, but LT is much more peaceful. PTO meetings are pleasant ways to get to know what’s going on at the school and lobby the principal a bit; there is none of the toxic fighting that has been my experience at Watkins. (Peabody has always been lovely, but that is pretty easy at a ECE-K that is almost exclusively UMC.)

The music teacher is quite a character but fantastic. The chorus and keyboarding programs he does are also super popular and culminate in appearances at the two school fairs and the Kennedy Center. The dance program is crazily good for a school-based program. The musical (Annie) and vocal tech clubs are also great musical outlets. (Vocal tech is only $35 for 6 1 hour small group vocal classes.) The Spanish teacher is great and very involved in school stuff (had a table at International Night and has run after school clubs in around the world/culture, Romance languages and a very popular fantasy creative writing clubs for older kids).

I could not be happier with the choice to move my kids to LT.[/quote]

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