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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ Trouble is, they don't care about politely phrased constructive criticism from neighborhood parents either.  I'm in-boundary and privately relieved to be avoiding LT's upper grades.  By our family's definition, far too many of the students there are bogged down by depressing home lives (unlike most of the neighborhood kids).

Anybody IB who sticks with LT past prek, you have my respect and best wishes.

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This is so sad. I am in bounds for Watkins but I live way closer to LT, and think that LT (unlike Watkins) could be a great school if there was enough buy-in from neighborhood families.  It is such a small school compared to Watkins and could be flipped so easily if people would just stick around. I am even thinking of trying to lottery in for PK and trying to get a cohort of parents together to stick it out. [/quote]

Not to pick on you particularly, but this is the attitude that drives me bonkers. LT already IS a great school. It doesn't need to be "flipped"![/quote]

It's really not a great school. It did well last year when compared to other neighborhood schools, but you are deluding yourself if you think it's "great." [/quote]

12:56 again. This is especially true when you consider that "proficient" in DC is already a really low bar... http://www.dcactionforchildren.org/node/927

[i]According to the most recent DC CAS scores, less than half of D.C. elementary students were proficient in math and reading. The same was true for secondary students, with the exception of math and reading scores of public charters school students.

Judged by NAEP standards, all of those percentages (ranging from 42% to 62%) would sink even lower. Because the bar for proficiency is set lower on the D.C. test, the DC CAS seems to overstate student achievement. That’s a problem for the schools, whose already low proficiency levels take another hit. It’s also a problem for our students, who may be hearing they’re proficient, when in actuality they’re not.
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