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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]HI and HELP! We just moved to DC and our child will be attending LT for PK this fall. After reading these feeds I am extremely concerned( used condoms on playground, shattered glass, racism...). 
What's wrong with this picture? 
Is it safe? We would like to send our child to a diverse school considering we were raised in an urban environment ourselves, however is the diversity somewhat balanced? Hearing "ghetto" fighting at PTA meeting, strange people lingering near doors is exceptionally alarming!!
Suggestions for other options? PLEASE HELP!
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I suggest trying LT and seeing how it goes.  If the experience of many other middle-class parents from the Hill serves as a guide, you'll be fine with pres3, probably fine with pres4, possibly fine with K, and unlikely to stay after that.  The school is safe, the real issue will almost certainly be challenge in the elementary grades.  But you may stay with the small number of other middle-class parents who do.  If you're planning on LT up to 5th, I'd say you're being unrealistic.  Once the building gets fixed up (next summer?  summer 2014?) more middle-class families will be drawn in.  There is no shortage of fighting on the PTA - not a pretty picture.   We left for Peabody and feel nervous about Watkins.  Just keep returning to the OOB and charter lotteries every year for Two Rivers, Maury, Brent etc. and you'll get somewhere eventually.

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