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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]+100.  Far too easy to blame in-boundary parents for not trying hard enough to effect change.  We learned the we couldn't the hard way, really a miserable experience.   But I'd still be glad to rally neighbors to get a group together to meet with whomever replaces Tommy Wells to talk about LT's leadership issues (assuming that he'll see his mayoral race through).

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It is absurd to think a principal who is doing an EXCELLENT job would be replaced simply because you do not feel "welcomed enough."  [/quote]

Maybe 20 years ago it would have been absurd, but today it's not at all absurd.  The game has changed, and the dinosaur mentality of just sitting back and automatically getting students in the door every year is no longer how things work.  Schools and principals now have to EARN the respect of families, has to COMPETE for students, and work hard to RETAIN them if they wish to stay relevant, and for their schools to stay open.  If a DC principal isn't in that mindset, isn't actively seeking out and welcoming in families, that principal will fast find failure no matter how everything else is going.[/quote]
It would be nice to think that this is true, but you are just wrong. Ludlow-Taylor's scores are pretty good, and DCPS has made it clear that the school is going to stay open, with or without neighborhood families. What you don't understand is that there are lots of families who do respect the principal and love the school, even if you personally don't.

It will be interesting to see where neighborhood families end up over the next few years, as seats at Brent, Maury, SWS and Peabody are harder and harder to come by.[/quote]
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Isn't a public school supposed to be welcoming to ALL families?  Not just some?[/b]

If it's not welcoming and seats in other schools are so hard to come by then principals like this may well be the best thing to happen to charters.[/quote]

Well, no.  When a DCPS welcomes [b]kids who do not live in DC[/b], that is a problem.[/quote]

But if they're welcoming kids from other wards, because the neighborhood is leaving empty seats, then it really isn't.

It is from your perspective, but not from DCPS's.[/quote]

Not other wards.  Kids who DO NOT LIVE IN DC.  Yes.  This is a problem.[/quote]

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