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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do families need to be 'encouraged" to attend? A red carpet? Engraved invitations?!

I don't envy the new principal who has to deal with a neighborhood full of whiners who trash the school and then whine that they are not encouraged to attend. It's your neighborhood school. Enroll there if you want to or go to some place else.[/quote]

Polite suggestion for you, DCPS and the new principal, ASK THE NEIGHBORHOOD PARENTS WHAT THEY WANT IN A NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL.

Seriously, if LT left a survey form in my mailbox asking me what sort of new programs and policies I'd like to see in place there, I'd put time, effort and thougt into filling it in, like hundreds of other neighborhood parents surely would.  When I was volunteering on a political primary campaign in the spring, a dozen of us got a flier into every single LT District mail box in one afternoon.

I'd ask for various things SWS, Cap Hill Montessori and Maury and Brent offer but LT doesn't.  My somewhat over-the-top list would include...

*better big kids playground without trash piling up in and around it
*crack-downs on PG County Address cheaters filing no DC taxes (the Maury principal has famously charged some tuition/tossed them out)
*far more support for advanced learners, including pullout groups from K and looping up a year for math for grades 3+
*concerted push to raise parent contributions and donations to the school (including fund raising gala on a par with Brent's bringing in tens of thousands of dollars) 
*more and better organized field trips to Smithsonian museums with more chaperones
*more diverse, better educated, and less PC teaching staff
*decent school garden and environmental studies program
*better art room; better music room and full-time music teacher; full-time librarian; better PE program
*quality stage sound system to support school performances (anybody else see Annie at Brent this year?)
*Tier 1 Scripts Spelling Bee and National Geographic Geography Bee competitions for grades 3+
*higher-octane after school like chess club, robotics, and Harry Potter club
*more serious Spanish instruction
*the Hills first-ever club to prepare students for Johns Hopkins CTY summer camps from 2nd grade, including PRAXIS test prep
*science competitions club (usually only found in DC private schools)

Please add your own wish list here if you won't mind taking flak for it.  [/quote]

Immediate PP, you're right on. Please don't stop and don't listen to the do-nothing DCPS bureaucracy.[/quote]

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