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Ludlow Taylor has some challenges - all schools do.  Arguing on a message board won't solve them.  Get more involved at the school.  Talk to the teachers.  And don't talk to them to rant about what you think the problems are.  Ask them what they need.  Ask them what you can do to help.  Be a positive force for the school and the school will be a positive force for the neighborhood.  It's already a positive force for the kids that go there.

[b]The comments about the transformation at Brent are telling.  The parents didn't set out to fire people or get rid of OOB students.  They set out to make the school better[/b].[/quote]

What are you smoking?  The Brent transformation narrative is one of high-SES parents setting out to shuffle off the early 2000s principal and any number of not-so-great teachers.  Making Brent a mostly IB school meant phasing out OOB students like mad.  Making the school much better meant making it upper-middle-class friendly in an overwhelmingly high-SES neighborhood.

LT serves a low-SES community in a predominantly high-SES catchment area.  After nearly a year of preschool, I've reluctantly arrived at the conclusion that only by shutting LT down and re-opening with a new head, PTA leadership, about half the teachers and students, would we have any hope of being satisfied with the school up to the testing grades.  DCPS isn't talking in terms of sweeping change, so forget it.

Even DCUM posters are generally reluctant to talk about the off-putting social dimension to LT for most IB parents. No, I don't want my kid in class with a good many others whose parents (or perhaps the 40-something grandmothers raising them) hardly read to them, who watch loads of TV, who don't go to museums much, who don't necessarily know who their fathers are, who have relatives in jail, whose parents didn't go to college etc. etc.  A few, fine, maybe even a quarter, but the majority as at LT for years to come, no way.

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