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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I must admit that I am a bit confused.  Are the dissenters of Ludlow who want to close the school upset because the population is predominantly Black?   If you close the school, where should those children then attend school?  And if closing the school, how does that bring the coveted white population into a closed school.  Afterall, the school will no longer exist.  [/quote]

No shortage of blacks in the Stanton Park neighborhood as eager to find alternatives to LT as others.  The great majority of the students are OOB, or PG County address cheaters.  The OOB students have IB schools they can attend as well as charters.  The address cheaters do, too.  With only a handful of exceptions, the coveted white parents would strongly prefer that their children attend Peabody/Watkins.  White parents generally opt for LT, even for preschool, only after they have struck out elsewhere, or they wouldn't be leaving en masse for Peabody in the fall, now that new spots have opened up in PreK and K at the Cluster.  If the IB LT population were to become IB for Peabody, almost everybody IB would be very pleased.  Lexington Pl. Block (including 6th, 7th, D and E Streets) parents petioned DCPS for a boundary change into Peabody two years ago, but were shot down.  The OOB group, with elderly relatives in the neighborhood used to scam addresses, would be furious, but since when should neighborhood schools cater to parents residing in other neighborhoods?

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