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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The situation at LT is not good. Enrollment was a disaster over the summer - in addition to 1st grade being overenrolled, many kids in the ECE were not on the class lists when they were sent out a week prior to school, despite matching in the lottery and having sent in (and received confirmation) via paperwork that their child was enrolled. There is at least one family who has a prek4 child who was disenrolled and not able to be accommodated because the family was told that there was no room - despite the child matching and having the right paperwork. The first grade situation is bad - overenrollment and class lists that were changing until the day that school started. The construction which was supposed to have begun over the summer just started and their are nails and debris in the playground right near the ECE area (which is a real risk for the kids). Instead of looking to partner with parents, the Principal choose to no show at the first PTO meeting.

I don't think it's entitled of parents to want to know that their child is enrolled in school and that they have a teacher and not be at risk of getting stabbed by a rusty nail in the playground. I am not an LT parent by the way, my child attends another Hill elementary but Hill is a small community. LT has great teachers and families, it's a shame that the principal is doing such a bad job. [/quote]

Gently I'd like to suggest that you are going off the comments of a very small number of people and including a lot of rumor in the mix. Almost none of this is accurate (I cannot speak to the enrollment experience of a specific PK4 student). Even some of what is accurate is not evidence of anything-- it is not unusual for class lists to shift in the week before school due to the surprise arrival of IB students. This happens at many if not most DCPS schools. You're talking about an overenrollment *of one* in 1st which is not a big deal given the transient nature of DC's population and the difficulty of estimating lottery spots based on prior year numbers (and contrary to what a PP said no one is forcing LT to offer lottery spots as though it's 2018-- if that were true they would be over-enrolled in every grade and by way more than 1). The construction situation sucks but actually it WAS started over the summer, it's just not done yet. And school administration has little control over that-- it's other agencies as supervised by DCPS. All the school can do is ask for new estimates for completion and hound the contractor about cleanup and safety (and even that isn't direct!).

You aren't describing a dire situation. You are describing a DCPS school in a better situation than most. Which yes means a host of problems. It's DCPS.[/quote]

Also meant to say that I don't know what happened with the PTO meeting as I wasn't there (and neither were you! You don't even have kids at L-T!) but I've heard differing accounts. I tend to think they should have waited until this week for the meeting as having it the 2nd week of school (especially when there is so much going on with the construction and the higher-than-expected enrollment) is just a lot. At least wait until the 11th day of school when administrators have a better sense of true enrollment (no shows are considered merely absent until Day 11 so there may be students in the roster who have not yet shown up to school).

Anyway, you sure have a lot of opinions about a school your kids don't attend and a lot of it is based on rumors and false narratives.[/quote]

I like how patronizingly you address PP for a parent who didn't bother to show up at the PTO meeting or find out what happened there, but apparently has a lot of thoughts on when and how the PTO should run its meetings. (You heard "differing accounts"? What? There were 200 people there, including lots of teachers. You must not have tried very hard.) The administration and teachers know how many kids are in the first grade. There aren't no shows being marked absent/who are unaccounted for at this point (nor were there after the first week/at the time of the PTO meeting), so I'm not quite sure what you're talking about.

Also, "rumors and false narratives"? The construction was supposed to start at the beginning of summer. Instead, it started the week before students came back. Enrollment was a mess and I know multiple 1st graders who switched classes over the weekend. I also know of a 3rd grade student who was randomly unenrolled, so apparently this was actually happening across grade levels.

Also, Ludlow-Taylor offered (from PK3-5th): 44, 19, 15, 5, 7, 10, 10 and 6 spots in the lottery. In 2018, it offered 43, 11, 3, 3, 0, 4, 0 and 0, so you're right, they don't offer lottery spots like it's 2018, they offer WAY WAY more than that. It is also clear that you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.[/quote]

The principal doesn’t control when construction starts. How can you not know that?

Take a beat and calm down. [/quote]

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