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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tubman definitely has a core group of very supportive parents.  However, there were some major issues when the PTA head was white. Apparently the principal wasn't going to let that go too far. (check the archives, there were definitely threads discussing this).  Tubman is at an ongoing disadvantage in that Columbia Village Public Housing feeds to it and that is a notoriously troubled complex and the root of quite a bit of crime and violence in CH.   PP are right, look in sections of Petworth to be IB for Barnard, West, Powell and maybe even Bruce Monroe.
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former CH resident, but had a kid and moved to Petwroth.[/quote]

I'm always baffled by these Tubman threads. Their scores are SO much higher than the other schools you mention--something good must be going on, but DCUMers are too scared to find out.[/quote]

Scores are only part of the picture.  If some parents are made to feel like gentrifying interlopers every time they make a suggestion then thats a huge problem to overcome.[/quote]

Every time? How many times are we talking? One?[/quote]

NP, but based on what I have heard, Tubman is not a school that appreciates white families coming into the PTA and sees it as a real threat. That is why it was not on my list. [/quote]

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