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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So what are you planning for 1st grade?   Jumping to L-T?

One of our concerns about Ludlow is the obvious remedial education orientation of the teachers.  Those we talk to seem more interested in crusading to help low SES kids learn to read than relating to our child, who began reading toward the end of pres3, and not just sight words.

We travel to Europe to visit family and friends annually.  We're not sure that she would fit in at LT for K, or that we'd feel welcome on the PTA.

Don't see proximity for SWS (which would benefit us even if the boundary were tiny) in the cards no matter what Bowser has to say on the subject of charters and neighborhood preference...

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As a parent, I haven't seen any reason to be concerned about the "remedial education orientation" of the teachers. I don't think the school would have so many kids working at the advanced level if they were focused exclusively on remediation. Now, my daughter wasn't reading at the end of PK3 - in fact, she was barely reading at the beginning of K (and was aware of/frustrated by that). Her K teacher at LT built her confidence and pushed her to stretch. At the first parent-teacher conference, the teacher told me she wanted my daughter to progress a couple levels past the DCPS goal for K; by the end of the year, my daughter was actually *eight* levels past the DCPS goal for K. I'm not saying that to brag on my daughter, just to demonstrate that her teacher wasn't content with meeting a standard, or focused on "remedial education"; she met each child where they were and pushed them as far as they could go.

As far as your Europe comment, I hate to stoop to rebutting it, but I can't resist it when someone is wrong on the Internet. Just off the top of my head, I know several LT parents who not only travel to but are from various European nations (not to mention other parts of the world). Lots of kids at the school have never left the DMV, but LT's approach is not to narrow its focus, but to take advantage of the resources within the school community to open up the world to all students. At the school's multicultural night, one of the teachers sang in four languages in the space of 10 minutes (English, French, Portuguese, and a Nigerian language). At the spring jubilee, the *kids* were singing in French, thanks to the art/French teacher; during morning drop-off in the multi-purpose room, the dean often has music playing, and it's as likely to be samba as hip-hop.

Honestly, I think your kid would fit right in at LT -- but if you come in expecting to be more worldly than the other parents, your own attitude might get in your way.[/quote]

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