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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]LAMB parent here, there is no "unified" LAMB community, the fact of the matter is that the school is divided and each campus has its own culture and community hence the conflicting arguments and desires on this board.  Few parents who start preschool in MO campus get to know parents who start in the SD campus and if they do it is only when their kids go to 4th grade so that would be 6 years after they started at LAMB[/quote]

Why are they trying to "unify" tie schools then?  Seems like the Missouri people really dislike the SD people and vice versa. [/quote]

I do not think that they dislike each other, it is just that there are different needs and different communities.  For example, one year ARRIBA funds were used to buy new playground equipment for the SD campus, some MO parents were not happy but they did not start a crusade to get the school to buy new equipment for the MO campus.  SD campus has a part time nurse but somehow when the MO campus was renovated they failed to follow DCPS guidelines and the room that was allocated to be used for the school nurse does not meet the requirements and thus there is no nurse at MO campus.  This year the summer camp is being held at the SD facility and vast majority of MO parents will send their kids somewhere else because of convenience, last year summer camp was at MO campus and lots of SD parents sent their kids somewhere else because it was more convenient.  There is no hate, I agree with PP in the sense that the school effectively became two schools with two different sets of communities and needs. Now the idea of unifying both communities into one school is understandably upsetting to the community that feels that they have to relocate to a place that is not convenient for them.

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Why?

Because one location = more community. One location brings cost savings - fewer administrators needed, reduced utility costs, cleaning fees, etc. And better overslight/QA of what's happening (theoretically anyway).

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