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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The situation at LT is not good. Enrollment was a disaster over the summer - in addition to 1st grade being overenrolled, many kids in the ECE were not on the class lists when they were sent out a week prior to school, despite matching in the lottery and having sent in (and received confirmation) via paperwork that their child was enrolled. There is at least one family who has a prek4 child who was disenrolled and not able to be accommodated because the family was told that there was no room - despite the child matching and having the right paperwork. The first grade situation is bad - overenrollment and class lists that were changing until the day that school started. The construction which was supposed to have begun over the summer just started and their are nails and debris in the playground right near the ECE area (which is a real risk for the kids). Instead of looking to partner with parents, the Principal choose to no show at the first PTO meeting.

I don't think it's entitled of parents to want to know that their child is enrolled in school and that they have a teacher and not be at risk of getting stabbed by a rusty nail in the playground. I am not an LT parent by the way, my child attends another Hill elementary but Hill is a small community. LT has great teachers and families, it's a shame that the principal is doing such a bad job. [/quote]

Lol classic Hill parent right here - not only whining on DCUM but ALSO whining based on rumors!! [/quote]

What do you mean rumors? When a parent says to you "this happened to me and my kid" is that a rumor? if not, then I don't know why you are jumping on this as rumor. I don't understand the refusal to believe that this is happening. Did you see the list of questions that parents have put together after the AP ended the PTO meeting early? These are real issues that parents have questions about. [/quote]

Yes! It is when you extrapolate that because one parent you know *claims* their child was unenrolled this means that enrollment was a mess. You don't actually know what happened.[/quote]

Pretending the enrollment screw ups are a "rumor" or extrapolated from one kid is a very odd point to keep pushing and makes me wonder if you're actually an L-T parent. Basically everyone in the L-T community knows that enrollment was a total mess. I think people picked up on it the fourth time class lists were delayed or when the 5th grade teacher reported having 38 students. The Q & A document from Principal Miller in the PTO Newsletter walks through exactly why it was such a mess; it doesn't pretend that it wasn't a mess. (FWIW I thought she did a pretty good job with those answers.) I think it's especially frustrating for parents because it's the second year in a row this has happened and both instances have led to us losing a different staff position to accommodate the mistake. The kids in the overenrolled grade end up just fine, actually probably better off because they get an extra teacher/smaller class. It's all the other kids who lose science or support services.

I don't think Principal Miller is a good principal, but I don't think she's badly intentioned and the school has seen worse. The person on here pretending there are no issues and calling things "false narratives" isn't helping anyone, but coming on here to trash the school doesn't help either. Of course people from L-T are defensive when someone who admits they're not even a parent starts talking about how bad things are at a school their kids don't attend even if some of the underlying criticisms ring true.[/quote]

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