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Anonymous wrote:Who the f cares about the race or ethnic background of the principal? It's about goals, competency and attitude.

I care, privately, as do many other parents of Stanton Park neighborhood tiny tots.

Sadly, it definitely not all about goals, competency and attitude. It's about a installing a leader who doesn't arrive freighted with heavy DCPS luggage owing favors to a range of corrupt and incompetent insiders installed during Barry's tenure and L-T's infamous"in-boundary" parents displaced to PG County by gentrification. Hint: both groups are almost entirely AA.

Get over yourself. A strong white principal, if she is one, represents a new day, as the SWS, Brent and Maury parents, AA, white, Asian, Latino know well. Carpe diem LT school community.

Gross. I'm another white parent who was hoping for a dynamic black principal.

Anonymous wrote:I know you mom, your child is Asian, you are not, and you're very happy with L-T. What will make a difference over time is school leadership that sees value in attracting neighborhood families of all races and classes. We're finally likely to get that now. Neighborhood parents have never been the problem at LT. No in-boundary parent should have to walk on egg shells at a neighborhood elementary school for not being part of the "in" crowd.

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Anonymous wrote:^^^ That's too bad how you feel. Her race will have nothing to do with how good a job she'll do. Hopefully she's a good administrator and fair, and will be a Hill resident committed to the community. The Cluster blows.

If her race doesn't matter, why does it matter if she is a hill resident? Do you think that teachers and administrators should live in the neighborhoods where they work in order to be effective?

Absolutely yes, because a principal is critical to the stability of the school and neighborhood. You need someone committed to the neighborhood. Hopefully Ms. Bell will not be commuting from Warrenton and treating this like another job and paycheck, but will actually move onto the Hill and want to make life here better for her neighbors. LT has soooo much awesome potential to be a positive neighborhood school; a principal who cares about that can and will make it happen.

She was still commuting to her previous DCPS position from Warrenton. What makes people think she'll now move to the Hill when she's close to retirement?

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Anonymous wrote:Disgusting and racist? That would have been Cobbs biting my head off for asking how many Asian children were at L-T past PreK in front of other prospective parents. I'm told the answer was one. Her answer was WHAT AN INAPPROPRIATE QUESTION (at high volume). My ill feelings about Cobb were surely passed down to my own kids, who were standing right there. Any wonder that some of us are surprised and pleased that DCPS has selected a white principal? We may be disappointed in her stewardship of the school, but, hey, it's a new day for now.

Although the principal could have addressed it better, is an inappropriate question for that forum. Imagine if a white person did that.

In which forum? In what sense was it an inappropriate question when DCPS itself publishes demographic data? Yes, I am an Asian parent. I asked the question to Cobbs politely and in a low voice, while she barked her answer. The DCPS L-T school profile page had reported 0% Asian that year, and I wanted to know if the figure was accurate. She was so unpleasant to me that we didn't put in for a L-T preschool slot, although we're in-bounds. Ech, glad we landed at a welcoming charter and that Cobbs is history at L-T. Hello, the neighborhood kids are mostly white now. If the new principal makes L-T another Maury (er, more than half white and IB) within 5 years, hurray.

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Anonymous wrote:Disgusting and racist? That would have been Cobbs biting my head off for asking how many Asian children were at L-T past PreK in front of other prospective parents. I'm told the answer was one. Her answer was WHAT AN INAPPROPRIATE QUESTION (at high volume). My ill feelings about Cobb were surely passed down to my own kids, who were standing right there. Any wonder that some of us are surprised and pleased that DCPS has selected a white principal? We may be disappointed in her stewardship of the school, but, hey, it's a new day for now.

Although the principal could have addressed it better, is an inappropriate question for that forum. Imagine if a white person did that.

In which forum? In what sense was it an inappropriate question when DCPS itself publishes demographic data? Yes, I am an Asian parent. I asked the question to Cobbs politely and in a low voice, while she barked her answer. The DCPS L-T school profile page had reported 0% Asian that year, and I wanted to know if the figure was accurate. She was so unpleasant to me that we didn't put in for a L-T preschool slot, although we're in-bounds. Ech, glad we landed at a welcoming charter and that Cobbs is history at L-T. Hello, the neighborhood kids are mostly white now. If the new principal makes L-T another Maury (er, more than half white and IB) within 5 years, hurray.

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Anonymous wrote:Disgusting and racist? That would have been Cobbs biting my head off for asking how many Asian children were at L-T past PreK in front of other prospective parents. I'm told the answer was one. Her answer was WHAT AN INAPPROPRIATE QUESTION (at high volume). My ill feelings about Cobb were surely passed down to my own kids, who were standing right there. Any wonder that some of us are surprised and pleased that DCPS has selected a white principal? We may be disappointed in her stewardship of the school, but, hey, it's a new day for now.

Although the principal could have addressed it better, is an inappropriate question for that forum. Imagine if a white person did that.

In which forum? In what sense was it an inappropriate question when DCPS itself publishes demographic data? Yes, I am an Asian parent. I asked the question to Cobbs politely and in a low voice, while she barked her answer. The DCPS L-T school profile page had reported 0% Asian that year, and I wanted to know if the figure was accurate. She was so unpleasant to me that we didn't put in for a L-T preschool slot, although we're in-bounds. Ech, glad we landed at a welcoming charter and that Cobbs is history at L-T. Hello, the neighborhood kids are mostly white now. If the new principal makes L-T another Maury (er, more than half white and IB) within 5 years, hurray.

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Anonymous wrote:Disgusting and racist? That would have been Cobbs biting my head off for asking how many Asian children were at L-T past PreK in front of other prospective parents. I'm told the answer was one. Her answer was WHAT AN INAPPROPRIATE QUESTION (at high volume). My ill feelings about Cobb were surely passed down to my own kids, who were standing right there. Any wonder that some of us are surprised and pleased that DCPS has selected a white principal? We may be disappointed in her stewardship of the school, but, hey, it's a new day for now.

Although the principal could have addressed it better, is an inappropriate question for that forum. Imagine if a white person did that.

AnonymousIt would seem that there is already a great racial divide at Ludlow-Taylor, and attitudes like yours and others of your ilk will make it incredibly difficult for the new principal to try and build any sense of community in the school. Really quite a shame that you don't seem to realize this, and instead defend your words and actions.[/quote wrote:

One thing to contemplate when someone anon says something hateful on a public forum, is that stirring things up may be their intention.