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Anonymous wrote:I am excited for the outdoor space possibilities. I am a huge advocate of getting kids outdoors and working with gardens and in nature (especially important for urban kids). It's also an important part of Montessori philosophy. I would donate my time and my Arriba money to make the outdoor space excellent!

So how much will they be building over to make enough space for 600 kids?

Anonymous wrote:I am excited for the outdoor space possibilities. I am a huge advocate of getting kids outdoors and working with gardens and in nature (especially important for urban kids). It's also an important part of Montessori philosophy. I would donate my time and my Arriba money to make the outdoor space excellent!

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Anonymous wrote:How did the meeting at the Missouri campus go yesterday? Did the administration reveal more information or basically repeated what they said at the SD meeting last week?

It went well - the facility looks incredible. I'm amazed this may be an option for us.

Anonymous wrote:How did the meeting at the Missouri campus go yesterday? Did the administration reveal more information or basically repeated what they said at the SD meeting last week?

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Anonymous wrote:NP, I don't have children in this school, so I don't have a dog in this fight. But I do have a friend at LAMB who did go to the meeting with Diane and her imp. I think other pp have noted that this school does have a right to be held accountable to EVERY population they serve at the school and I agree with them. I don't care what your original vision was, your demographics have shifted and as such you must shift your vision and mindset. This is why my DH and I send our daughter to our regular local public schools. The idiots that run charters don't like accountability and having to answer to the population they serve. It seems Diane and Christine did NOT want to deal with wealthier more affluent parents because those families are going to push back. Those families are not just going to believe your every word on what's best for their children. Affluent families will expect communication through dialogue and partnership to ensure all the children are successful. Poorer families tend not do be able to be as vocal due to work reasons, maybe not understanding their rights, etc.

Yes agree with this.

Anonymous wrote:NP, I don't have children in this school, so I don't have a dog in this fight. But I do have a friend at LAMB who did go to the meeting with Diane and her imp. I think other pp have noted that this school does have a right to be held accountable to EVERY population they serve at the school and I agree with them. I don't care what your original vision was, your demographics have shifted and as such you must shift your vision and mindset. This is why my DH and I send our daughter to our regular local public schools. The idiots that run charters don't like accountability and having to answer to the population they serve. It seems Diane and Christine did NOT want to deal with wealthier more affluent parents because those families are going to push back. Those families are not just going to believe your every word on what's best for their children. Affluent families will expect communication through dialogue and partnership to ensure all the children are successful. Poorer families tend not do be able to be as vocal due to work reasons, maybe not understanding their rights, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:"You are wrong. As a white parent, I definitely took notice when Christina spoke disdainfully about "gentrifiers" moving into Ward 4. That was blatantly racist. If a white administrator complained about blacks moving into certain neighborhoods, they would be crucified, and rightly so. No race owns any neighborhoods. Christina is terrible and needs to go. To jail."


Please get over yourself and your liberal guilt. She said nothing about race and there was no animosity in the statement and you know it. I was there as well. She was talking about about her goal of providing a good bilingual education in a geographical area with a concentration of native Spanish speakers and where the residents didn't have the economic means for alternatives. It was money focused, not race focused. Despite what many pp here, there are quite a few non-white parents who reside in Wards other than 7 & 8.

Many of you should be ashamed of yourself. All of this animosity and vitriol threatens to destroy a great school that is very much needed by many kids including dare I say gentrifies and non-gentrifies alike. Perhaps instead of spewing anonymous hate filled jabs, the legitimate Lamb community should focus on working together to find solutions as the admin attempt to improve the school.

Agree with this. There was nothing disdainful about Christina's comment and there was no animosity. It was about the economic realities of DC which all of us are facing. And sorry that as a white parent you thought that the gentrifier comment applied to just you and other white families. Gentrifiers are people of medium or high income moving into low income neighborhoods. There are non-white gentrifiers in this city as well, including black, hispanic and asian. Sorry your white privilege made you think that a gentrifier comment was racist and only referred to white families like yours.

This post is a good example of the racist undercurrent I posted about a few pages back.

-PP