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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Again.  Comments like this really don't build community.  But apparently, you're not interested in building a unified community.  I'm going to have to call this one the way it sounds...you just want the black families out.  [b]But here's a newsflash for you--many of those little black children are IB for LT, and they aren't going anywhere.  [/b]I know newcomers think that every black person they see at their school is sneaking in here from PG county, but that is an urban myth.  It happens, but not on a level anywhere near DCUMers believe it does.  When it does, it's a case of separation or divorce. Moreover, there aren't a whole lot of PG county residents who are sneaking into DC schools to attend LT. No offense, but I can name two dozen other schools (including charters) that they would go to before they would ever think of LT. .

Some good points above but even more counterproductive palaver.  On my little street alone, near Ludlow, there are half a dozen grandmothers who've been passing off their grandchildren, now in the upper grades, as IB kids since preschool without fear.

With more and more of the elderly people in the neighborhood, almost all of whom arrived in the 60s, leaving for nursing and retirement homes, and passing away, rampant address cheating is dying a death of attrition.  There were at least twice as many families on the street playing the game at L-T five years ago.  Brent isn't a Ward 3 school either, but it's FARMs rate has dropped from 3/4 to under 10% in just over a decade.  Maury just shed its Title 1 status, with its FARMs rate halving in five years.

Demographers estimate that at least two-thirds of the children under age 5 in the L-T catchment area are white and high SES.   The rest are a mix of races and classes. . .

PPs sound horrified by the prospect of neighborhood families, who are mostly white, collectively embracing the school and staying through the upper grades, causing L-T to become majority high SES.  This is being on the wrong side of history, like the states fighting gay marriage. Demographic sea change has already arrived, with a flood of affluent families choosing to raise their kids in the L-T District[/quote].[/quote]

I know that the few children now living on my IB block are all white or mixed race and the 2 children who are AA are "living" with their grandparents and are not around on the weekend because they are picked up by adults with MD plates on Friday night. I do not report them because I figure their grandparents will sell/move and we will still live here. I also am not so super liberal that I did not send my children to LT years ago because I did not trust the school and did not want them to be the only non-AA children in their grade. I think that the population boom on the Hill is going to fill LT with IB children, but don't pretend that it will remain majority AA if it does.

Someone earlier in the thread said that we shouldn't act like we are in Ward 3 with only IB populated schools -- why not?!? I think Ward 6 and non-NW DC in general should have higher expectations. Doesn't mean that we need to be lily-white or only the 1%, but we need to stopped being pushed around by people from outside our Ward that want to use us as their experiment.[/quote]

Did it ever occur to you that the children that you witness leaving in a MD car on the weekend are children of divorce, separation or perhaps even a deceased parent where the grandmother has custody and the other side of the family takes them on the weekend?   :roll:   Aside from that you are truly nosey to be in their business that way.

Second, I said if you are trying to emulate Ward 3 schools, the LAST thing you want to take from them is the IB/OOB distinction where kids are made to feel less than because they don't live in the immediate community.[/quote]

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