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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well said! I'm thrilled about this possible move. Some people on here (or one person) are making it seem like LAMB said they're moving to Chevy Chase or the Palisades. The Kingsbury campus is a dream, and the location is pretty much the center of the city. Stop whining please and be grateful for this potential gift. What a fantastic home for our awesome school.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not gonna lie, if they move to Kingsbury, I will be thrilled! (LAMB parent here). The campus is beautiful - and within walking distance! Hopefully then they will consider some sort of bus system for the folks not in Ward 4. [/quote]

If they don't, be prepared for a battle. Wards 5 6 7 8 won't let this slide. [/quote]

LAMB is not going to organize a bus system. If parents want one, the parents will have to organize and pay for it.

Wards 6, 7, and 8 account for 12% of current enrollment. A material percentage, but still very much a minority. I don't know how much W5 families (as I'm not one) will fight a consolidation at Kingsbury. We, parents, knew Walter Reed is our future for MS and HS.[/quote]

Then be prepared for letters to come in from parents who feel this is a great way to whiten the white school.

And also be prepared for us to testify to the fact that other schools are expanding into wards 8 (Mundo, stokes). Why should lamb be approved to go in the other direction.  We will force their hand.

And of course I love how this move, so close to another good bilingual school reduces bilingual access to the rest of the city. Now the rich get two tries to get into a bilingual school.

I don't care what the school wants or doesn't want. They will be forced into it. 
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You seem to not understand this process. I'm sorry you are upset about a charter moving from its temporary location, and into a big beautiful consolidated campus that will be pretty close to 85ish% of current students.  If you are in W7 or W8 you already had a long drive.  And this location is closer than WR, where you would have been forced to go in upper elementary anyway.   So I'm not sure what type of hand forcing you are considering, but it is a ridiculous notion. [/quote][/quote]

the nasty tone of these posts is just revolting. I also like how everyone assumes that if you're opposed to the move you're a white parent because "Latinos don't post on the list serv". Not true. How Christian and kind and zen of you. Enjoy subsidizing buses for my kids, unless you're cool with lines of black and Latino children contacting bowser directly to say how we are being expelled from school to help rich white people.

Oops that might have happened already.... Yikes![/quote]

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