Reply to LAMB closing its existing campuses and consolidating to one campus

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "LAMB closing its existing campuses and consolidating to one campus"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As has been clearly explained, there are many good reasons to not share this information yet.  In fact, it would be stupid to do so for those exact reasons.
 
That people are in a huff over this shows that some of the poor communication is more a case of parent entitlement.

[/quote]

A years lead is insufficient time. People bought and sold houses based on the location of lamb. Any mention of school sponsored buses is treated like evidence of treason. It's exhausting what parents are demanded to do on a regular basis. BreakthRough Montessori let's parents drop off students at the curb instead of parking in a sketchy neighborhood and walking them inside. Yu Ying and Mundo verde sponsor buses (Mundo even subsidizes them!). Lamb expects parents to arrive at work late or preferably, not work at all. Now we can't be trusted to know (1) that we are moving and (2) that the move is permanent and far away from the current schools. Straight up RIDICULOUS. [/quote]

Not a LAMB parent, but you just sound straight-up entitled.  I don't know how you went about buying your house, but I didn't begin the process for buying mine by telling every potential seller "Hey!  I'm desperate to buy!  Big time!  Please don't allow my publicized and obvious desperation to affect your asking price, okay?!"

From what can be gleaned of the publicly available information, the school has always wanted one singular campus.  They may not get what they want, but that they're working towards it and have an eye to the future isn't hidden from view.  Obviously their board is going to be privy to information that parents don't have.  Hello?!  If the board doesn't have the information then who is ultimately responsible for the school?  The PTA?

You don't seem to understand how completely unrealistic you come across.[/quote]

Telling the school community that LAMB is exploring options to move to a single, new (non-existing) campus in the near future (~1-3 years) would be a fair and honest approach, imo. You can do that without saying "we're leasing the Kingsbury property for a 10 year term starting in May 2018 at a price of such and such per year" or whatever.

The rest of your post is confusing bordering on incoherent. Is it common knowledge that LAMB is seeking a single campus such that any Seller would know that (and also know that the lease at SD is up in 2020)? Or is the Board effectively keeping that info such a secret that they gain some kind of bargaining strength? Those two positions are mutually exclusive. Also, you buying a house is a bad analogy. The market for the kind of properties LAMB would be looking at is very small, and all of the potential Sellers, Buyers and even specific properties are known to all parties. Finally, if its true that LAMB is at a point where multiple employees are leaking that this deal is probable to close in time that they would open the 2018 school year there, then it is already far along in discussions and the Seller already knows exactly what LAMBs desired timeline is.

"Obviously their board is going to be privy to information that parents don't have." Yes, obviously, since that is what this whole thread is about. I don't think anyone is suggesting that  they circulate the minutes of their board meetings or anything. But there is some information about medium-term strategic planning goals that a responsible and empathetic board should share with the community. Whether this info fits that description is hard to say.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics