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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My issue with EV Downey is that she has done Ludlow-Taylor a huge, huge disservice over the past 5 years -- even more so than this forum. She is a hater and has used her soapbox to bring down the school's reputation in the neighborhood. So Principal Cobbs isn't that great at PR, warm-fuzzies, whatever -- everyone knows that. But in countless talks with neighborhood families,sDowney has consistently discounted any good experience other parents have had at the school, based strictly on her SN son's negative experience with the principal quite a few years ago. I have a dog in this fight because my kids go to LT, and because we are an IB family trying to make our neighborhood school work for us -- and so far, we've been wonderfully repaid for our commitment. But I have had at least a half-dozen parents look at me with shock when I say that we are happy at LT, and more often than not it's because EV Downey (who I have never laid eyes on inside the school until the recent principal selection meeting) has warned them off the school. To me, this is letting personal experience cloud objective reality, and I think to become a really useful consultant she needs to get past those biases -- and not just when it comes to LT.[/quote]

No dog in the LT fight as we are not in-bounds for it, but I have friends who are and I've heard stories from them about the unwelcoming environment in the school, which they did not pick from any EV Downey comments but from their dealings with Principal Cobb and visits in the school.

Most people do not hire EV Downey or any other consultant. So the fact that most of the LT neighborhood avoided that school like a plague is unlikely to have anything to do with her and everything with the school itself.[/quote]

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