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50% UMC?!?! There is not a single house under a million dollars in their boundary!

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, and the great majority of UMC Ludlow 4th graders are either heading to BASIS, one of the Latins, Inspired Teaching, CHM, a private or hoping to get off a public charter school wait list.

Bravo, DCPS![/quote]

There is no data to support this statement. In fact an increasing percentage of LT students are remaining for 5th. It is also funny to watch people talk about LT as one of the "gentrified" schools in the same breath as they say DCPS has no shot of gentrifying schools. You are all glossing over what LT looked like merely 4 or 5 years ago.

My point here is that it doesn't advance anyone's interest to just make things up. So many of you on DCUM just do what Stephen Colbert's character on the Colbert Report used to do: don't worry about facts, just stick to "truthiness".[/quote]

Different poster. You don't seem to have the skinny on LT in 2022. We've been collecting data in the neighborhood. No great challenge.

We've asked around about IB numbers for 4th grade at LT for SY 2020-2021 vs. 5th grade IB numbers. We get this info from half a dozen IB LT 4th grade families (longtime neighbors, friends) who've been at the school for years.

What my numbers tell me is that more than half the IB LT families in 4th and 5th grade left for ms charters last year. This year, it looks like most will leave, with strong LT representation at Latin 2. Not the great majority leaving as stated above, but a majority.

Same old story, like Maury, Brent and SWS. Any surprises?

Draw your own conclusions.[/quote]

So the DCUM echo chamber wasn't myopic enough for you? You seriously asked your friends in the neighborhood and THAT's your sample "data"? [/quote]

Sorry, you think some DCUM posts are more accurate than... asking her neighbors who are IB for the school?

The LT 4th grade class has fewer than 50 kids. The LT IB is tiny geographically. Probably 50% is UMC and vast majority of that is IB (or within 2 blocks of the IB). It would be extremely easy for her to get a pretty accurate picture from talking to 6 neighbor families. We're only talking about 25 kids and folks are compiling local email lists for each of the big 3 IB Hill ES destinations, so if she talked to one family with a kid going to each of Basis, Latin I and Latin II, that alone would clue her into the destinations of roughly 50% of the UMC kids. [/quote][/quote]

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