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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What proof do you have that Ludlow is full of PG students?

Proof is hard to come by, because it's so easy to game the DCPS school registration process. All you need is a friend or relative to put a utilities bill in the your name and you're probably into LT for PreS3 to PreK4 and definitely in from K to 5th, no questions asked.  If you've lived in the LT district for years, like I have, you know how it all works.  You see your elderly AA neighbors taking care of MD grandchildren in the afternoons, you see the MD plate cars dropping them off at LT in the morning, and picking them up from local homes in the afternoons.  How many are in there, you can't say, but you guess around 1/4 of the kids, maybe even 1/3.  A lot of them are in a gray area in terms of residence.  They camp out at grandma's house a good deal, who's to say where they really "live."

But two things are certain, their parents don't file DC taxes and their parents control the PTA, which influences hiring decisions at the school. So the lousy princpal, beloved of the MD parents, stays, and almost all the teachers remain AA, which does nothing to draw in the gentrifiers.  The gentrifiers want SWS, where the head and most teachers speak their language.
If they get proximity preference (within 1500 feet of the new location at F and 9th) and find a way into SWS, they won't touch LT.

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