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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] LT in-bounds families are not willing to stay, we all know that, but more important that that, what could we voice to DCPS?  That the current principal "doesn't support us"?  Sounds too vague. [b] Maybe the better approach is for all in-bounds LT families to continue to avoid the school and hope that it lands on the closure list.[/b]All I know is that I can see Prospect LC from my window, and I won't like having to pass it by each day on my way to LT...[/quote]

[b]Make it clear to DCPS that we want an IB school for IB families, who are mostly affluent vs. FARMS, a la Maury and Brent.  [/b]

I note that high-SES have largely avoided L-T since I moved to the Stanton Park neighborhood a decade ago yet the practice hasn't landed it on the closure list, not even close.  When the principal was selected in 2005 she represented a big improvement over her predecessor (no kidding! that bad! it used to be that if a white parent turned up to ask about enrolling the principal would say "you know, there are schools for children like yours") and our hopes were raised.  A new principal picked with input from this particular PTA is unlikely to change much.

What incentive does Wells have to alter the status quo at L-T?  The IB grandmothers who facilitate the address cheating vote and the yuppies almost always land somewhere else by K without complaint.  The charter and OOB lottery works 95% of the time.   Moving the Montessori from Watkins to the L-T District, and now an expanded SWS, has been to rub salt in our wounds.  But then maybe we deserve it for having tolerated DCPS' shenanigans, which wouldn't fly in Upper NW.  One great hurdle to clear is the big OOB special needs programs - the kids are bused in, no address cheating needed.

Good luck with that.  Tommy Wells has political ambitions, and they won't be realized by satisfying the whims of upper SES white folks on the Hill.  A school such as that is a zero/sum game, and lower SES residents will see it for exactly what it is.  Kaya Henderson also has to look at the entire system from a similar perspective, they are allied in this.

Also, it gets old hearing about what won't fly in Upper Caucasia.  That part of DC has always been white and upper or at least middle SES.  The political dynamics and school histories are COMPLETELY different.  Stop comparing apples to submarines.

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