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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Lafayette parent community has a loud, obnoxious minority of parents that are just plain toxic. They are smug, upper middle class professionals who want a sweet, elementary school experience like they had in the 1970s and are so oblivious that they don't have any understanding of how education has advanced since then.

I distinctly remember the strong pushback when Dr. Broquard instituted a system of assessing reading levels in the early grades and parents insisted that this was too much testing - they believed that their privileged kids could read why should anyone be tested to identify kids who are falling behind?  It was so unbelievably self-absorbed and selfish - and stupid because I'm sure some of those kids had undiagnosed gaps in their skills.  As a parent whose child was moving from another school which had already modernized its approach to education, it was shocking how behind the times the place was when Dr. B started.

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You can make the case for a small group of loud parents protesting change - but it's been a decade. None of those parents have kids there anymore. And yet, she is still reviled and teacher turnover remains high.

Maybe the chaos at Miner is such that she will be a breath of fresh air. She has upsides: good with logistics and large-scale plans, good communicator (she knows how to write and spell), generally organized, and seemingly liked by DCPS admin. In which case, this could be a net benefit. But I don't think there are too many teachers or parents at Lafayette who aren't happy to be welcoming in someone new. [/quote]

She is very good with logistics, organization, and dealing with Central Office.  But she also has a lot of faults and we are not sorry to see her go.[/quote]

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