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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pull outs for advanced students in elementary school are mainly to keep the wolves at bay.  A good teacher meets each student at their level for any subject.  The teachers at Ludlow Taylor are HIGHLY QUALIFIED and do just that.  DCPS uses Impact to evaluate their teachers.  If they are no good they leave.  Teachers and paraprofessionals at LT stay.  In the words of Principal Cobbs herself she "hires great teachers." Maybe try asking to observe a class.  Actually watch a fourth grade math lesson.  It is better to see something and observe someone's practice first hand before making a judgment.  Unfortunately these judgements result in many families deciding not to attend Ludlow and then joining in on the bad mouthing.  [/quote]

Disagree, strongly.  In an urban setting, where many low-SES kids lack basic skills in the upper elementary grades because poverty and chaotic home lives have been holding them back since birth (or rather conception), pull outs for advanced students, and/or looping up to higher grade reading and math classes, are not just window dressing, but essential instructional tools.  When most of the high-SES kids scored advanced on the DC-CAS while most of the low-SES kids can't score proficient (yes, at LT), you need the pull outs.

LT has a ghetto feel that only a few arch liberals in the neighborhood embrace for the elementary grades.  Mainstream upper-middle-class parents won't stay after K.  Droves of IB parents pay hefty property tax to support the school without feeling comfortable using it.  The arrangement is seriously unfair and bad for the Stanton Park neighborhood.  If you want a neighbhorhood school in a neighborhood that's mostly high-SES, you need a school that's mostly high-SES.  Bad mouthing isn't the issue.  [/quote]

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