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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Is it the best school in DC? No. It's certainly a top school in Ward 6 -- comparable to Brent and Maury, which are two schools no one nowadays says could be "flipped."

Look, I get the argument that neighborhood buy-in is important. (It's not as important to me as it is to some, but I do get it.) And I am sympathetic to white parents who don't want their child to be an only.

But I really feel like many people in this forum, and perhaps in the neighborhood, are undervaluing what LT has achieved -- look at the number of kids scoring advanced! In a title 1 school! -- and talking about it like this poor pitiful thing that sorely needs an infusion of high-SES white kids if it's going to get anywhere.

So I have to wonder what their definition of anywhere is. If success, by definition, equals having a lot of IB (=white, high-SES kids), then yeah, I guess LT does need more of those kids to meet that definition of success.

But if success is determined by something other than the school's demographics, then what is the standard that LT needs to meet that Brent and Maury have already met?
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+1,000![/quote]

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