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Anonymous wrote:I am a staff member at LT and just stumbled across this. One word. Wow. Interested to see what my coworkers think...

They'll surely think that most of the opinions expressed are those of a handful of racist posters with an axe to grind. Simply not the case when you look at in-boundary percentages by grade (hard to do, since DCPS is not in the habit of disseminating relevant stats, so "white" ends up serving as a proxy for "bona fide in-boundary" and high SES, which sucks).

If you will, please direct the new principal's attention to this hard-hitting thread - it's not nearly as nasty as the one Jeff, the site administrator, just shut down about dumping the Cluster.

Some of us in the early gentrification crowd (at least a decade in the neighborhood) now keep mum on almost all L-T related issues in the neighborhood because we're weary of being accused of being racist when we voice concerns. Kindly look at the test scores and projections posted. Times they are a changin'.

Anonymous wrote:I am a staff member at LT and just stumbled across this. One word. Wow. Interested to see what my coworkers think...

Anonymous wrote:^^ not specifically referencing LT, but many Hill parents use ps3 DCPS as a cheaper alternative to daycare or nanny while waiting for St. P, CHDS, or immersion charters that don't start until pk4 (which I think is destabilizing to local DCPS, just like charters starting at 5th grade).

-- signed neighborhood LT booster with an older child (not in this fight)

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Anonymous wrote:Get over yourself, most in-boundary families still use LT as a place holder before decamping to a charter or OOB spot, often for language immersion. I'll be the first to cheer if that changes under the new princpal.

good thing all those supernaturally gifted children will be able to catch up on immersion with the kids who had a 2 year headstart. But hey bigshot - you can always get a tutor or summer in _____ country to get caught up.

Don't be dense -- they use ps3 because yu ying starts at pk4.

Anonymous wrote:We are IB for L-T (oldest starting PK3 2016) and as of now L-T would be our top choice UNLESS we get into an immersion school. It has nothing to do with L-T. Our ranking would be the same if we were IB for Brent or Maury. We like the convenience of going to our local school. The only programmatic difference that would make a longer commute worth if for us would be language immersion. I think that this is a pretty common calculus and doesn't necessarily say anything about the IB school. Language immersion is a desirable curricular choice. People choose it because they want to give their kids the chance to learn another language. It is often not any more complicated than that.

Anonymous wrote:If anybody wants to flash forward armed with a feel for what sort of achievement gap LT is likely to be grappling with once a critical mass of high SES kids hits the testing grades, the stats below may be of use. I wish that DCPS furnished the stats to make that high SES kids of all races, but they don't.

As of summer 2013, only three Cap Hill DCPS neighborhood schools had enough white kids for scores to be pulled out by subgroup, Brent, Watkins and Stuart Hobson. Maury will join the group in several weeks, when 2014 CAS scores are made public.

The stats speak for themselves, making a strong case for pullout groups. If you disagree, tell us why.

Brent 2013:
AA students Testing Advanced, Math: 14%
AA Students Testing Advanced, Reading: 14%
White students Testing Advanced, Math: 24% (1.7 x rate of AA)
White Students Testing Advanced, Reading: 46% (3.3 x rate of AA)

Watkins 2013:
AA students Testing Advanced, Math: 11%
AA students Testing Advanced, Reading: 11%
White students Testing Advanced, Math: 64% (5.8 x rate of AA)
White Students Testing Advanced, Reading: 59% (5.3 x rate of AA)

Stuart Hobson 2013:
AA students Testing Advanced, Math: 9%
AA students Testing Advanced, Reading: 8%
White students Testing Advanced, Math: 59% (6.2 x rate of AA)
White Students Testing Advanced, Reading: 51% (6.3 x rate of AA)

Ludlow Taylor 2013:
AA students Testing Advanced, Math: 21%
AA students Testing Advanced, Reading: 17%

PROJECTED ACHIEVEMENT GAP AT LT BASED ON WATKINS’ 2013 SCORES:

White students Testing Advanced, Math: 64% (3 x rate of AA)
White Students Testing Advanced, Reading: 59% (3.5 x rate of AA)

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Anonymous wrote:Get over yourself, most in-boundary families still use LT as a place holder before decamping to a charter or OOB spot, often for language immersion. I'll be the first to cheer if that changes under the new princpal.

good thing all those supernaturally gifted children will be able to catch up on immersion with the kids who had a 2 year headstart. But hey bigshot - you can always get a tutor or summer in _____ country to get caught up.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get over yourself, most in-boundary families still use LT as a place holder before decamping to a charter or OOB spot, often for language immersion. I'll be the first to cheer if that changes under the new princpal.

good thing all those supernaturally gifted children will be able to catch up on immersion with the kids who had a 2 year headstart. But hey bigshot - you can always get a tutor or summer in _____ country to get caught up.

Anonymous wrote:Get over yourself, most in-boundary families still use LT as a place holder before decamping to a charter or OOB spot, often for language immersion. I'll be the first to cheer if that changes under the new princpal.