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[b]If your goal is more white butts in seats, Maury is something to aspire to; if your goal is a school that offers solid educational opportunities, LT is already there.[/b]

And, y'know, if your goal IS more white butts in seats -- if your goal is to have a school that's at least 20% white through the upper grades, so that your child isn't an "only" -- I think that's OK. Just admit that.

[/quote]Well said, pp![/quote]

[b]PP, you are a hopeless advocate for LT.  If the school is indeed "already there" offering "solid educational opportunities" as you claim, why do the great majority of neighborhood parents, most of whom seem to be smart people (hint, they have graduate degrees), avoid the school?[/b]   Rampant racism alone explains why LT's white population has dropped two school years in a row?  You discount the attraction of several far more diverse charters opening in Brookland since 2010?

My goal is more white kids in seats because rafts of such kids' parents own and rent homes in-boundary and LT, after all, is supposed to be a neighborhood school.  Moreover, with almost all white kids on Capitol Hill coming from high SES backgrounds, it stands to reason that LT would benefit from far more upper-middle-class support.

The fact that a handful of white and Asian families are sticking around after K doesn't move me.  I'm hoping that it won't move our future Ward 6 DC CM either.  I'm betting on 2015 for abiding change at LT.

[/quote]Oh fer gosh sakes! I'm not the pp who wrote about getting white butts in the seats but I think she/he was right in saying that that she seems to be fine with it the way it is while you want to see more high SES (white) kids there. I don't really get why everyone has to convince the rest of DCUM that they are right and the other side is wrong. If you don't think there are enough high SES kids, fine - don't go there.  But there are apparently at least a few high SES families who are okay with LT the way it is at this point.  They have different standards than you apparently.  Why try to beat it into their heads that they're wrong when they are happy with the way things are?[/quote]

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