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I know some of these families, and you're right.  I'm definitely not denying that there have been and are some great families working to make it a better place.  And improvement has been more incremental than it should be.  But at least all of the families I know work to channel their frustrations into action instead of spitting vitriol on a message board.  We can have a civil conversation about how to make the school a better place, but that conversation needs to happen out in the open among people who are willing to put in the work.[/quote]

We put in work. Lots, which only made us feel like we were wasting our time.  There were no civil conversations to be had with Cobbs.  Try one-way conversations - her talking, or you, never both.  Then we left, for Maury, where we have been as happy as clams.

Some of you are under-estimating what strong leadership and new blood can do to improve a crappy school, at least when the neighborhood demographics have already changed. With a tough, inclusive, sophisticated, neighborhood-minded leader, LT could indeed take off.  But turning a school around is no business for wimps and tough decisions would have to made.  E.g. Maury's principal going after MD address cheaters with ferocity, trying to get them fined for back tuition, so that the message got through to others.  After our first year, at least a dozen hit the road before the fall, when they had reason to believe they'd be found out and penalized.

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