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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1/3 of the kids at Payne do not come from the homeless shelter.  This is wildly inaccurate and actually harmful to parents who are considering Payne.

And Payne isn't struggling to keep families past K.  The 2011/12 school year was the first year that "gentrifiers" tried Payne.  Of the 6 or 7 families in preschool and preK, all but maybe one were very happy atleast for that school year.  And about half are staying for the next grade.  I don't know if any are thinking of Payne longterm, but not because Payne is bad.  I think a lot of parents in the less popular schools play the lottery every year and then weigh options.  My child was at Payne and the school was safe and orderly.  We would have stayed but are moving our child to be with his sibling.

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Come on, the homeless shelter population at Payne is large, as is the PG County address cheater population, the school's test scores are the lowest on the Hill, and the institution is absolutely struggling to keep white families past even preK 3.  Yes, well-educated parents were happy with prek3, and a few will stay for prek 4 and maybe even k, but the ES grades are hardly looking like fertile ground for well-educated parents.  Class-based PTA battles at Payne have turned ugly.  Similar story at Ludlow-Taylor, where the principal isn't half as friendly to the gentrifiers.  Stanton Park neighborhood folk are still waiting for LT to "turn" since the prek first became popular 5 years ago.  The story is generally "we loved Payne or LT, we would have stayed, but, ahem, we didn't."  The point is that the person who started this thread might want to go into the home buying process with his or her eyes wide open.

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