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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's the demographic make-up of this year's kindergarten class?  How many classes, what's the size of the classes and what % are in-bounds?  Positive experiences?  Thanks.[/quote]

Two K classes, each 20-25 kids. (I think my daughter made 21 valentines for her classmates?) I don't know the demographics off-hand, but at a rough guess her class is 75% black/25% white. (There's also one Asian girl, and I think there are a couple kids who are both black and Hispanic.) I have no idea what percent are in-bounds.

The K teachers, from what I've seen, are masters of differentiation. Reading groups are very fluid over the course of the year. My daughter is a strong reader, and rather than being content to let her rest at the DCPS K goal, her teacher pushes her to continue to advance, while at the same time working with kids who came into K without knowing their alphabet.

I think the math instruction is solid. I am not keen on the amount of homework but I can see value in it. I appreciate the way the monthly take-home projects integrate math and reading and sociology and whatever their monthly focus is (black history, nature, recycling) -- today she had to turn in a bar graph of how many bottles/cans/etc we recycled over the past week; last month it was a report on her favorite animal. I really like the arts integration and the french language program. I have yet to encounter a bum teacher at LT; that is one of the principal's signature strengths, I feel.

The shooting last Friday was scary, but from parents who were on the scene it sounds like the teachers got everyone inside and locked down quickly and efficiently, without scaring the little ones. Neither the shooter nor the victim was local to the neighborhood; the fact that it happened by the school seems to be pure coincidence. [/quote]

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