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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]+1.  I bet they'll get their neighborhood proximity preference.  The principal, teachers and current parents all want it enough to lobby hard and Tommy Wells may actually help them in the end.

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Better solution-- no neighborhood preference for SWS, but make L-T a better option.  Get a principal that will set up a great advantanced study opportunity program at L-T.  There is no reason L-T can't be as popular as Capitol Hill school as Brent or Maury.[/quote]

Unfortunately, there are in fact several big reasons for now.  The PTA is controlled by low-income and lower-middle-class AA OOB parents and PG County address cheaters, many of whom attended the school as children.  It's incredibly difficult for IB parents, who are relative newcomers to the neighborhood, and overwhelmingly upper-middle-class and white, to get anything done on a PTA where they are not yet very welcome.

Brent and Maury started to turn 6-10 years ago, before the proliferation of Brookland charters, the language immersion schools and Inspired Teaching, attracting droves of middle-class Hill families.  These schools also entered transitions before Peabody opened more spots when SWS exited, and before the Logan Montessori left Watkins and expanded.  As things stand, LT can't build a critical mass of IB parents because there are so many ES "outs" in NE these days as much as anything else.  Getting rid of the weak principal and fixing up the building will happen sooner or later without addressing LT's deep-seated problems keeping IB families past preschool.   More realistic to let the 2nd and 3rd generation LT families have their school while SWS absorbs more of LT's IB gentrifier population.

Now if DCPS were to start a bona fide test-in gifted and talented academy at LT, the school could turn fast.

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