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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to open house at LT recently and was appalled by some of the things the principal said. It was pretty incredible - in a negative way.[/quote]

The part where she said that each student could choose up to 5 schools in the lottery?!? Then when someone corrected her to say that each student could choose 12 schools, she said essentially dismissed them and said "so, let's just say there were 100 schools you could pick..." Then, she got other facts wrong. Instead of saying she didn't know, she gave misinformation and then put down the folks that were trying to help her out. That part?? [/quote]

Here goes the Cobbs bashing again.  So, should she be more focused on the day to day operations of the school or the lottery?  Is she the most eloquent or effective speaker?  No.  Does she hire very good teachers, yes.  I didn't hear you say anything about the physical plant of the school, continued improvement in test scores, quality of the teachers, etc.  All we get from you is how APPALLED you are by incorrect facts about the lottery.  I'm sure you never get anything incorrect.  Obviously your uber-brilliant &  advanced 3 year old could never attend this school.  Probably should burn the place down and start from scratch.  [/quote]

Do you think it's just possible that the attitude of your principal has the tiniest bit to do with the fact the school has been unable to retain more than a couple of in-bounds families past kindergarten?  I've been IB for LT long enough to remember the guy who preceded her, so she's an improvement over him, but absolutely nowhere near on par with the principals at Maury and Brent who actively embraced the in-bounds neighbors and looked for ways to work together with them to build a stronger school.  In the 10+ years I've been IB for LT, there has been very, very little of the progress you see at many other Hill schools, and nor will there be until there's a principal in place at LT with a very different attitude toward community engagement.

In the short term, LT will continue to be primarily a gap-filler for families waiting to get into Peabody, SWS, Logan, and elsewhere.  Good enough in the early grades that it's a fine place to kill time trying to get off other wait lists.  Long term, virtually no IB families have been willing to stick it out.  People get fed up and move on.  I have no doubt that eventually LT will become a neighborhood school of choice, but not in the next 5 years.[/quote]

And yet I also wonder if you constantly see families who use up all your ECE spots, you invest a lot of time and energy in developing those children's social/emotional skills and getting them ready for kindergarten and beyond and then they up and vanish, the families just using your school as a waystation for something better it's hard not to want to build a community with those people who aren't committed.

As for the JO principal knowing she has address cheaters- you can't investigate based on circumstantial evidence like license plates and offhand comments from children. But you can certainly make some fairly accurate assumptions. And as the PP said if the school was overcrowded with IB kids it would be a different situation.[/quote]

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