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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is everybody so pissed off at LAMB all the time? So they want to run a separate lottery (that follows charter law) and they have a charter that allows them to limit entry years? Why do we have to keep nattering away at them? They are doing an excellent job with the kids they have, and they have expanded so that they can continue to offer slots to as many new families as possible.

They're probably taking way more new kids than a small school like Stokes is, and nobody's complaining about Stokes.[/quote]

+1. It's a bit weird that there is so much sour talk about LAMB. Aren't they expanding so that they can serve more kids in the city and open their program up and let more people in?[/quote]

The "illegal lottery" poster, and Montessori Lite, and BFD poster write in an almost identical manner. Pretty much anything they say is a lie. For example, LAMB did have a language preference lottery until they were told to stop. Then they stopped. It wasn't illegal until they were told to stop. That point has evaded the crazed mind of the illegal lottery poster. Anyone who has actually gone to lamb and done some research knows it's not Montessori Lite.  This has been shown time and time again on these boards, so feel free to do a search. Montessori Lite has actually stopped posting about this so there you go. And the BFD poster refuses to understand that her special snowflake will likely not be able to be placed at LAMB since it would just affect a handful of students who won't speak the language or understand the Montessori way. But setting kids up for failure is less important than bragging about sending them to a Montessori Bilingual school to them.

Some people are just angry for whatever reason. I don't care what your rants are, but try to keep from posting lies to prove your point. 
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Wrong on several counts.  I'm not the "illegal lottery" poster or the Montessori Lite poster.  I'm just the BFD poster, so I suggest you consider that there's more than one person in opposition.

Secondly, I'm not worried in the slightest about my special snowflake.  He is succeeding in Chinese with an IB curriculum, which was by far our first choice.  LAMB didn't impress me much - this would be why I question their inability to integrate a handful of 5 year-olds.  Nonetheless, there is obviously a dearth of quality opportunities for ES level students in DC, and LAMB's determination to take public funding without serving the public strikes me as contrary to the mission of the public in a public charter school.

I also find the pearl-clutching defense of the Montessori Way to be laughable on its face.  Aidan Montessori (Woodley Park) has been a Montessori school in DC for over 50 years, and continues to accept students in its Toddler, Primary, Lower Elementary, and Upper Elementary classrooms.  Evidently good Montessori schools can integrate not just 5 year-olds, but 5th-graders.  Thus, your desperation to build a moat to keep out the uninitiated Montessori toddlers rings hollow.

Ergo, BFD.

Q.E.D.   [/quote]

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