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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It seems obvious to me that the L-T parents who are posting on here, or at least a few of them, do need to learn to deal with the past in a more positive light. i don't have any issues with the questions asked in here. I think they are all relevant. Who wouldn't want to know this and more? And if the OP are older parents who knew people who had bad experiences, I think this would be the place to come to flush out the dirty truth, and find out if it was still going on....

Meanwhile the parents are sensitive to the point where they really overreact and dive into personal attacks, ("dillweed", psychiatric interventions) etc . i don't see how that helps the reputation of their school. They sound more like the trolls. It actually looks very foolish.

As other posters have noted, there isn't an active Facebook page, any easy way to see fundraisers or other events,  or other good means of understanding what the school culture is like....

We all know, when you ask people in person, they are always going to give you a "clean" version of the school, even if they aren't happy. Especially if the area has gentrified quickly, house values are probably approaching what they would cost in the more desirable parts of NW, but the school is filled with ward 7 / 8/ pg county AND many in the neighborhood resort to private. That is a recipe for disaster. That ends up creating a set of people who can afford their mortgage, but not private school, and are stuck with the local school. A group of people who are staying or stuck, and who are extremely defensive about the fact they don't have the choice some of their neighbors do. If I lived here, I would be hard pressed to pay for private if the local school were as good as the parents say it is. The true question, however, is .... IS it? Is the school actually that good? At what point is it not? 1st Grade? 2nd Grade? [/quote]

I am the "dillweed" poster, and I am not an L-T parent. I am tired of the complaining by in-boundary families that they are "stuck" with a school where they KNOWINGLY purchased a house. They are extremely foolish for paying NW prices where they are not getting a NW school, and they have nobody to blame but themselves. They are hampering L-T's growth by insisting on poisoning the well. The L-T parents I know are very frank about their experiences, but they do feel defensive about the barrage of criticism by non-parents - being called hippies, being told that their kids are "experiments," etc. There is an active contingent of parents who are lobbying for proximity preference for Logan and SWS, and they know that any success stories coming out of L-T are going to hurt their chances of arguing their case. [/quote]

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