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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But they have to meet the same requirements as a public school district - which is why setting enrollment restrictions is problematic.

DCPS can do it at Logan and Oyster bc they can offer people different placements. LAMB isn't running a non-Montessori, monolingual elementary school for everyone who doesn't get in at PK3 or PK4.[/quote]

[b]LAMB isn't a school district idiot.[/b] [/quote]

You are the idiot.  LAMB is the equivalent of a school district.  It's an LEA:  Local education agency (LEA) (also known as local educational agency) is a commonly used synonym for a school district, an entity which operates local public primary and secondary schools in the United States

BTW I was one of the original families when LAMB opened.  That first year was a mess== because the kids had to learn a second language (either English or Spanish) and also how to be in a Montessori classroom.  There weren't any kindergartners to show them.  It took almost the whole year to settle the kids into the Montessori method and get comfortable with the bilingual model.  I totally understand why the administration does not want new Kers in the mix.  They just backfill with more preKers.  What's the difference?

And backfilling will be more of a thing of the past now that there's a clear middle school and high school path.  People used to peel off mostly just to secure a place in a school with a decent feeder path instead of the unknown.  Probably very few seats in the future to argue so much about.

One more thing -- there is no English track, or tracking, period at LAMB.  They use an inclusion model so kids with learning disabilities are fully integrated into the classroom.  They provide great special ed support.  They get the kids they get at pre3 or prek4 and they will work with those kids tirelessly right up until graduation in June of their 5th grade year.  That's why they are successful -- they would frankly prefer that more of those kids were non-English speaking and/or low-SES... that's their mission and their calling.  They are not trying to avoid having lower SES kids there at all, quite the contrary, but they do believe in their model and it has proven extremely successful.  
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You missed the forest for the trees- the point is that LAMB does not have the responsibility to educate all children in DC. But go ahead and name call first. [/quote]

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