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[quote=Anonymous]We are not IB for L-T, but I had a child here briefly.  We are educated, middle class.  Cobbs was extremely rude, dismissive, unprofessional, and downright hurtful to me on at least 4 occasions that I can think of directly.  She also spoke inappropriately in front of my child.  I was willing to believe it was simply our situation that made her unwelcoming to us, but then I heard multiple stories such as what people are posting above (unfriendly to middle class families).  I understand how hard it must be for a school that feels itself to be settled and successful to have an influx of a new type of parent, but that's the way things happen.  Families who live IB have a perfect right to participate in supporting their IB schools.  They have a perfect right to attend their IB schools.  Principal Cobbs and other principals at similar schools need to understand that there are different styles of parenting and that working with those different styles is part of their jobs.

I think Cobbs is starting to work on becoming more welcoming and I commend her on that.  I certainly wish her all the best, but I can assure you that I, with a long time association with DCPS, experienced quite directly extremely negative (and I must say one-sided -- she mostly spoke to me, I barely said anything) interactions with Principal Cobbs.  It made me question the possibility of success for L-T.

The teachers and administrators I met were, for the most part, wonderful.  There are some really wonderful people there.[/quote]

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