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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]+1.  As the many parents in the neighborhood who've rejected L-T know, along with countless prospective home owners who bought elsewhere on the Hill over concerns about the school, much of the OOB population is comprised of families who used to live in the Stanton Park neighborhood.  This isn't the normal OOB population one finds in Hill elementary schools (e.g. a family residing in the Payne or Miner Districts who lotteries into Peabody or Maury).

The dominant OOB crowd moved elsewhere in the city when gentrification pushed property values and rents up, or to PG County, but continued to use L-T, often by borrowing the addresses of elderly in-boundary relatives to enroll. DCPS hasn't cracked down because in-boundary demand has been weak. But with demand picking up fast, and leadership that is likely to be far more neighborhood friendly than it's been for a decade, [b]the OOB group's glory days are numbered[/b].

Rapid change will engender a great deal of conflict at L-T, but at the end of the day, maybe five years from now, [b]true in-boundary parents will call the shots there[/b].  They can't run off to SWS, Cap Hill Montessori or charters like they could just a few years ago.  I don't doubt that in-boundary parents will ultimately reinvent L-T as high SES friendly to the upper grades.  Good luck to them.

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Again.  Comments like this really don't build community.  But apparently, you're not interested in building a unified community.  I'm going to have to call this one the way it sounds...you just want the black families out.  But here's a newsflash for you--many of those little black children are IB for LT, and they aren't going anywhere.  I know newcomers think that every black person they see at their school is sneaking in here from PG county, but that is an urban myth.  It happens, but not on a level anywhere near DCUMers believe it does.  When it does, it's a case of separation or divorce. Moreover, there aren't a whole lot of PG county residents who are sneaking into DC schools to attend LT. No offense, but I can name two dozen other schools (including charters) that they would go to before they would ever think of LT.

Seriously, you guys IB for LT need to tamp down your rhetoric.  It's ugly and counterproductive.  If you really want a great IB school, spend your energy working on a solution that benefits children of every race and socio-economic level.  And stop with the IB/OOB distinction.  LT is NOT a Ward 3 school, and if you want to emulate Ward 3 schoosl, the whole "I'm IB and you're not" attitude is the last thing you would want to take from them.[/quote]

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