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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We might be relocating to the DC area this summer and so I'm desperately researching schools. Reading this thread on L-T has been interesting, and it sounds like it might be the school for us. Can with upper grade kids answer some practical questions for me?

How strict is the uniform policy? Our current school has uniforms... but there's no enforcement, and the rules are loose. (No restrictions on types of shoes or socks, hoodies are allowed, shirts don't have to be tucked in, etc.) Is this true here?

What kind of math do they use?

Are there any gifted programs? Music? Specifically strings?

All we have to do to get in is move into the school's cachement zone--this is correct?

How big are the classes?

Do the upper grades get recess every day? Cluster classes? (Science, art, computers, etc?)

In closing, a few words on all this randomness about the principal: I've heard similar complaints leveled against the principal we have now at our PS in New York. She's not warm and fuzzy, it's true--but being warm and fuzzy also isn't her job. Her job is to navigate the system and make sure the children in her care are provided for--all of them. From what you've all said, it sounds like she's actually doing a great job. A little yelling on the playground is not how I judge a school. Then again, I have also worked at a school, and come to realize that in a playground full of screaming children, sometimes I must raise my voice to get to be heard. [/quote]

PP, virtually no one on this forum has kids in the upper grades. I'm not sure how familiar you are with DC public schools, but on Capitol Hill, there are a few "gentrified" schools where neighborhood kids are now reaching 3rd and 4th grades. For these schools, you could get some good information on the upper elementary grades.  There are quite a few more not-so-gentrified schools where people go to preschool only. For these schools, you would have a very hard time getting good information on upper elementary grades. LT is somewhere in the middle with neighborhood kids now reaching 1st and 2nd grades. (And this is a gross generalization with many exceptions I imagine.)

I'll do my best to answer a couple of your questions:

- The older kids all seem to be in uniform when I see them...

- DC does not have gifted programs although there are certainly some schools working around this in imaginative ways.

- I sincerely doubt there's a strings program...

- Yes, all you need to do is move into the catchment zone from Kindergarten on. And right now, all inbounds kids in preschool do get in as well.

- There are lots and lots of arts classes because it is an arts integration school. And since the 4 year old do science, I have to imagine all the older kids do as well.[/quote]

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