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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The parent, student and teacher communities at Lafayette are wonderful. The teachers are top notch and the parents are welcoming, warm and passionate in all the right ways. It's a close knit community and that makes it really special.

There is a new principal this year - Katie Prall - and she is not well suited for the job nor does she seem to be driven by what is in the best interests of the students. That opinion is shared widely by parents and teachers. Many concerns have been raised for DCPS. She is a sub-par communicator - she doesn't provide transparency in her decision making and it's clear she has come in with that attitude that she will rule with an iron fist. Her primary constituent seems to be the DCPS administration not the children nor teachers. The teachers have had a terrible time with her - being emotionally abusive and disrespectful. It may sound like these concerns as coming from overbearing and entitled parents and teachers but they are coming from a legitimate place of concern and we are already hearing of teachers applying to other schools because of her (lack) of leadership.

This is such a shame because Lafayette is a wonderful school and community. I am hopeful we will see some change. [/quote]

Never change, Lafayette parents. OP, this is the type of people you'll have to deal with.[/quote]

LOL, exactly. My kids are in college and I clicked on the thread just for funsies like this. My favorite Laf parents who take the cake are the ones who raged on DCUM at Dr. B because two “beloved” teachers left—the very teachers who parents wanted Ms. Main to fire when they were co-teaching, and rankled her so hard she cried. [/quote]

My favorite Lafayette parents are the ones who demanded DCPS buy them an entire building to relieve overcrowding at a school that had been renovated like three years earlier.[/quote]

I am all for dunking on Lafayette parents, but DC is and should be responsible for addressing overcrowding at schools.  Our relatively recently renovated school is also overcrowded, because they didn't pony up to make it as big as they should have when they renovated.  It's insane.[/quote]

Lafayette is not overcrowded, per DCPS statistics. [/quote]

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