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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Realtor friends tell me that only around 15% of CH householders (owners and tenants) live with children, and that property values have been rising steadily across Ward 6 for the past couple years.

In short, the high-ses IB LT parents don't have the votes/numbers/clout to change much of anything at the school.   Those with stamina for annoying commutes always seem to find, or pay for, an ES spot they're OK with; those without move.

One day, maybe 10 years from now, the school will start to become a real neighborhood school.  Until then, I'm leaving any more dispiriting LT PTA meetings to the die-hard optimists among us.

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As was said much earlier in this thread --  as long as engaged parents are unwilling to fight for their neighborhood schools and willing to drive across town for the promise of a better charter school, neighborhood schools like L-T will die out.  That's what "choice" is really all about - the "choice"  (i.e., the ability) to send your kids to a decent school across town, because DCPS is making it difficult to send your kids to the neighborhood school.  They can't turn the tide to charters without your help and so far they're getting it.

I bet that even parents who choose private schools are more likely to end up in schools in their neighborhoods than charter school parents do.  THink about it -- most of the expensive private schools are conveniently located in the expensive neighborhoods.  So those kids can walk to their schools, or get a short car ride from their parents on their way to work.  The engaged but non-rich parents get to play the lottery, drive their kids all over town or fight a losing battle to improve their neighborhood schools.

The poor parents and their kids  - well forget about them.  They get the dregs, as usual.

And this they call "school reform."

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