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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have children that attend this school and I have been impressed with the higher grades.  Do your homework, LT test scores are good, the teachers are great, and the PTA is outstanding(now) anyway.  People are afraid that their children will be tainted from attending this school, it's their loss though.  I would much rather build a relationship with my community and help the school improve then complain and send my child elsewhere.

Just another think, many of the parents from LT come from middle to upper middle class households...and GASP also, in the upper grades(imagine that).  Black does not equate to poor.  I would much rather send my child to a school where they are nutured(LT) then send them to a school because white kids go there.  That's stupid.  We are OOB, got into Watkins(mess) and never considered Brent(have you seen their scores).  LT has so much more going for it.

I will agree that I am not a fan of the principal.  She is aloof most of the times and out of touch.  The only complaint.  [/quote]

Your open-mindedness is laudable.  However, the since the situation you describe for your (presumably white) children isn't for the great majority of upper-middle-class IB families, in an increasingly affluent swathe of DC, LT remains a drag on the north Stanton Park neighborhood.  Given that very few white parents are OK with LT above K, let alone in the upper grades, how reasonable is DCPS' expectation of extreme open-mindedness to stay involved beyond preschool or K?

Brent's test scores for the two dozen or so white kids who've made it to 3rd grade have been great, with around half testing advanced, as they are for white kids in grade 3+ city-wide, whether they attend DCPS or DCPC schools.   It stands to reason that test scores lose relevance when Hill elementary school populations start to mirror neighborhood populatons.

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