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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What percent of LT kids are are attending SH for middle school?  Are families staying?  Or peeling off for charters? [/quote]

The percentage is dropping as the school gentrifies, but it’s still a solid majority. I believe L-T lost roughly 25% of kids last year between 4th and 5th, which is still substantially less than Brent/Maury/SWS, which all lose more than 50%. That said, part of L-T’s gentrification was just a huge influx of IB kids who previously went elsewhere. For years, L-T has been adding a full class per grade. Next year’s 5th grade is planned to be the first 5th grade year with 3 classes and the current 4th grade is the oldest majority IB grade, so it will be interesting to see what happens there.[/quote]

One big plus of L-T is its small class size relative to NW schools, Maury & Brent. It made a conscious decision about 5 years ago to expand to three classes once class sizes hit 23/24 instead of keeping 2, big, almost entirely IB classes. Nearly all L-T classes max out in the 20-22 student range. Recently they’ve had to drop a few self-contained classrooms because of space constraints and next year it is likely that two specials will have to share a classroom or one special will operate from a cart. It depends a little bit on how budgeting stuff shakes out and what sort of cohort mixing restraints remain in place (i.e., whether in person specials ever become possible).[/quote]

That last part is disgusting. Dropping self-contained classrooms FOR general education. If I were one of those families I’d absolutely try and sue.[/quote]

What? Do you even understand how self-contained classroom assignments work? DCPS makes that decision and the classrooms get moved to another school if they’re needed. There is still a self-contained classroom covering every grade except PK and those classrooms all have OOB kids in them, so it’s not like theyre not accommodating IB students. L-T still has a bunch of self-contained classrooms. Many DCPS schools have none. Are those schools disgusting?[/quote]

Lol it seems you don’t. They are absolutely needed, every year self contained goes OVER the class cap size. And if the program is moved these children still are FORCIBLY removed from their friends and THEIR school. They do not all end up at the same place. Not to mention paras and teachers lose their jobs and must look for a new one.

Ohhh OOB kids huh? Like there’s none in gen ed. 
No, those schools aren’t disgusting because they never had one. What also gross is you trying to justify the displacement of students who deserve to be there too. [/quote]

When they closed the ECE self-contained classroom , they actually didn’t have to move any kids from the school who were already there, so I assume that’s why they chose that classroom at that time. The assistant in the classroom actually became an assistant in another (gen ed) PK class at the school. The head teacher moved to a different DCPS school.

In any case, many schools have dropped self-contained classrooms as they’ve become more enrolled, given space constraints there’s not much other choice. You can’t not have sufficient classes to serve your IB pop, so if you can serve your self-contained IB pop, I don’t think there’s as strong an obligation to not yet enrolled OOB kids especially.[/quote]

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