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[quote=Anonymous]I don't have any direct experience at Brent, but my kids are thriving at LT.

I have no doubt that there are parents at LT "boosting" LT on DCUM, but I think it's because they're really happy at the school and the DC lottery creates this weird mindset that you should always be trying to get into somewhere marginally more popular/with marginally better test scores/with a marginally richer PTA. That can have a negative effect on a school and especially one that's gotten true neighborhood/IB buy-in more recently.

I am somewhat guilty of having this mindset too. My kid moved from another Hill ES to LT and while I don't regret the move at all, I'm not sure I did it for entirely the right reasons.

So if you're choosing between LT and Brent and your kid already goes to one, I would stay there unless to have an actual reason to move. Similarly, if one is your IB, I'd go there... being immediately in the neighborhood has advantages even if both are close. If neither of those is true, all I can say is that I've had a great experience at LT. I'd particularly point to the teachers as mostly excellent and a culture where they have really good communication with parents/you feel like you're on the same team. (For instance, I have had the phone numbers of all my kid's teachers and felt totally comfortable texting them about important and not important things and have always received helpful replies pretty quickly.) Also everyone talks about the afterschool enrichments, but they're so good! Your kids have like 10 different choices every day and different ones on different days and they're of such high quality. It's also a genius way to get aides to stay by giving them an additional income stream so they make a liveable wage (though I'm sure other schools do that too).[/quote]

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