Anonymous
08/19/2014 22:48
Subject: Re:Ludlow-Taylor getting a new a new Principal
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:To summarize the possible approaches
A. White folks, get used to a school with lots black/low SES kids, LT is fine, its got TEST SCORES, suck it up racists
B. We can flip this school, if only we can overcome the prisoners dilemma - maybe we could all sign a pact to keep our kids in LT till 3rd grade at least? We could meet in a back alley with candles and swear on our ancestors honor?
C. DCPS needs tp provide goodies - music rooms, gardens, stuff like that. And a pony. Because flipping LT is more important ot DCPS than building new middle schools EOTP. Or something.
D. Its all about the principal. If the new principal is good, the upward spiral will start without much else
Am I missing anything?
^^^ DCPS troll. One bureaucrat who needs to get off the taxpayer dime because he's not a public servant.
Sad you can't recognize satire.
Anonymous
08/19/2014 22:48
Subject: Re:Ludlow-Taylor getting a new a new Principal
Anonymous wrote:To summarize the possible approaches
A. White folks, get used to a school with lots black/low SES kids, LT is fine, its got TEST SCORES, suck it up racists
B. We can flip this school, if only we can overcome the prisoners dilemma - maybe we could all sign a pact to keep our kids in LT till 3rd grade at least? We could meet in a back alley with candles and swear on our ancestors honor?
C. DCPS needs tp provide goodies - music rooms, gardens, stuff like that. And a pony. Because flipping LT is more important ot DCPS than building new middle schools EOTP. Or something.
D. Its all about the principal. If the new principal is good, the upward spiral will start without much else
Am I missing anything?
You are awesome.
Anonymous
08/19/2014 21:35
Subject: Ludlow-Taylor getting a new a new Principal
LT has tiny boundary and no projects that I know of.
Anonymous
08/19/2014 21:00
Subject: Ludlow-Taylor getting a new a new Principal
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:^^ I'm so tired of hearing the Brent story. Brent got better because they do not have housing projects in their IB and because with the recession people could not afford private for a few years. It was not forward thinking parents/field of dreams shit.
Whatever you need to tell yourself. Your defensiveness reeks. Maybe learn something about the Brent Neighbors group and the people in it before you spout your theories.
NP here. I'm sure the "Brent Neighbors" are lovely. But if you are trying to make a comparison between the tiny Brent boundary (and Maury boundary for that matter) with no housing projects (and yes, we know about Ellen Wilson-- sorry, that's not Potomac Gardens by any stretch) and the boundaries for Payne, Tyler, Miner, Watkins…. well, whatever you need to tell yourself.
Anonymous
08/19/2014 20:46
Subject: Ludlow-Taylor getting a new a new Principal
Anonymous wrote:^^ I'm so tired of hearing the Brent story. Brent got better because they do not have housing projects in their IB and because with the recession people could not afford private for a few years. It was not forward thinking parents/field of dreams shit.
Whatever you need to tell yourself. Your defensiveness reeks. Maybe learn something about the Brent Neighbors group and the people in it before you spout your theories.
Anonymous
08/19/2014 19:43
Subject: Ludlow-Taylor getting a new a new Principal
Anonymous wrote:I like the idea of a back alley deal among white folks to take back 'their' neighborhood school by making a secret pact to stay. They could all get a tattoo or something, gangster style.
Let's stay and kick all those OOB out. Muhaha !!!!!
Anonymous
08/19/2014 17:40
Subject: Re:Ludlow-Taylor getting a new a new Principal
Oh grow up. The city and neighborhoods benefit when parents who live within a short walk of any particular school are happy with it.
Anonymous
08/19/2014 17:25
Subject: Ludlow-Taylor getting a new a new Principal
I like the idea of a back alley deal among white folks to take back 'their' neighborhood school by making a secret pact to stay. They could all get a tattoo or something, gangster style.
Let's stay and kick all those OOB out. Muhaha !!!!!
Let's stay and kick all those OOB out. Muhaha !!!!!
Anonymous
08/19/2014 14:50
Subject: Re:Ludlow-Taylor getting a new a new Principal
Anonymous wrote:Yea, but then the bona fide neighborhood young family community isn't nearly as diverse as the LT staff would have one believe. It's already around three-quarters affluent. We'll have to wait 6-7 years, until the 2020 US Census results are out, for DCPS to get to grips with this reality, but the facts are already on the ground. LT will continue to change, picking up steam as it does, as higher housing costs and an aging neighborhood AA population exert downward pressure on the supply of in-boundary low SES little kids. This will be true even if the new principal fails to provide robust, in-boundary-minded leadership. The only real question is will change come fast enough for your kid to reach the upper grades. Probably not, maybe so. Hint: it took Brent a decade to keep high SES families enrolling in pres3 to the upper grades.
I forgot approach 5. The problem will solve itself through further demographic change
Anonymous
08/19/2014 14:15
Subject: Re:Ludlow-Taylor getting a new a new Principal
Yea, but then the bona fide neighborhood young family community isn't nearly as diverse as the LT staff would have one believe. It's already around three-quarters affluent. We'll have to wait 6-7 years, until the 2020 US Census results are out, for DCPS to get to grips with this reality, but the facts are already on the ground. LT will continue to change, picking up steam as it does, as higher housing costs and an aging neighborhood AA population exert downward pressure on the supply of in-boundary low SES little kids. This will be true even if the new principal fails to provide robust, in-boundary-minded leadership. The only real question is will change come fast enough for your kid to reach the upper grades. Probably not, maybe so. Hint: it took Brent a decade to keep high SES families enrolling in pres3 to the upper grades.
Anonymous
08/19/2014 13:38
Subject: Ludlow-Taylor getting a new a new Principal
Anonymous wrote:10:13
You have really taken the Kool-aid. It's NOT a parents job to battle the ills of generational poverty!
I didn't say that it was. However, since the school zone that YOU CHOSE to purchase a home in has families across a wide socioeconomic and racial spectrum, if you would like your child to attend your neighborhood public school--which must serve ALL the children within its boundaries--then you are going to have to work to build a community that bridges cultural and economic differences. No easy task, but not impossible. There are parents across this city who are not sitting around whining and bitching. They are building school COMMUNITIES and part of that building process includes bridging those cultural and economic divides. The bonds are often fragile, but I have witnessed schools that are making it work even if they're just holding it together with bubble gum and tape. And understand, the process is often uncomfortable for the parents, no matter where they fall on the economic or racial spectrum. The long term residents you complain about are often from families who have lived in the District for generations and are having issues with the fall out from the changing landscape just like you. While their perspective may be different from yours, their feelings and concerns are no less valid.
The schools that are most successful in this situation are the ones whose parent leaders have made the decision to work and do whatever is in their power to make their school the very best for EVERY child and every family-- IB or OOB; black, white or orange; rich or poor. The minute you start drawing lines, pointing fingers and making distinctions, your community falls apart.
Anonymous
08/19/2014 13:05
Subject: Re:Ludlow-Taylor getting a new a new Principal
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:To summarize the possible approaches
A. White folks, get used to a school with lots black/low SES kids, LT is fine, its got TEST SCORES, suck it up racists
B. We can flip this school, if only we can overcome the prisoners dilemma - maybe we could all sign a pact to keep our kids in LT till 3rd grade at least? We could meet in a back alley with candles and swear on our ancestors honor?
C. DCPS needs tp provide goodies - music rooms, gardens, stuff like that. And a pony. Because flipping LT is more important ot DCPS than building new middle schools EOTP. Or something.
D. Its all about the principal. If the new principal is good, the upward spiral will start without much else
Am I missing anything?
LOL!
Sorry, wrong.
Now, are there are any other options I missed?
^^^ DCPS troll. One bureaucrat who needs to get off the taxpayer dime because he's not a public servant.
If you're the same sockpuppet as before, I'm going to report your race-baiting rubbish. Troll.
Let me rephrase it to better meet your standards (though I think the snark was quite justified by the thread)
Here are the four takes on L-T
1. Its fine as it is. If some IB parents see how good it is, that's great, but if they don't that's okay too. Lets hope the new principal does not change it.
2. Making LT a school attended by more IB children is a worthy goal. That can be accomplished by IB parents willing it, and commiting somehow to all attending long enough to overcome the prisoners' dilemma that makes that difficult
3. Making LT a school atteneded by more IB children is a worthy goal, but requires more than parental will. DCPS should provide the kinds of improvements needed to attract IB parents - even if those improvements are not requested by current LT families
4. Makign LT a school attended by more IB children is a worthy goal, and the mostly likely path to that is the new principal - if she is more IB friendly, as she appears, that will induce more IB families to stay, which will in turn lead to more of the more anxious IB families staying, and to DCPS paying more attention to the requests of IB parents.
Anonymous
08/19/2014 12:32
Subject: Re:Ludlow-Taylor getting a new a new Principal
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:To summarize the possible approaches
A. White folks, get used to a school with lots black/low SES kids, LT is fine, its got TEST SCORES, suck it up racists
B. We can flip this school, if only we can overcome the prisoners dilemma - maybe we could all sign a pact to keep our kids in LT till 3rd grade at least? We could meet in a back alley with candles and swear on our ancestors honor?
C. DCPS needs tp provide goodies - music rooms, gardens, stuff like that. And a pony. Because flipping LT is more important ot DCPS than building new middle schools EOTP. Or something.
D. Its all about the principal. If the new principal is good, the upward spiral will start without much else
Am I missing anything?
LOL!
Sorry, wrong.
Now, are there are any other options I missed?
^^^ DCPS troll. One bureaucrat who needs to get off the taxpayer dime because he's not a public servant.
If you're the same sockpuppet as before, I'm going to report your race-baiting rubbish. Troll.
Anonymous
08/19/2014 12:20
Subject: Re:Ludlow-Taylor getting a new a new Principal
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:To summarize the possible approaches
A. White folks, get used to a school with lots black/low SES kids, LT is fine, its got TEST SCORES, suck it up racists
B. We can flip this school, if only we can overcome the prisoners dilemma - maybe we could all sign a pact to keep our kids in LT till 3rd grade at least? We could meet in a back alley with candles and swear on our ancestors honor?
C. DCPS needs tp provide goodies - music rooms, gardens, stuff like that. And a pony. Because flipping LT is more important ot DCPS than building new middle schools EOTP. Or something.
D. Its all about the principal. If the new principal is good, the upward spiral will start without much else
Am I missing anything?
LOL!
Sorry, wrong.
Now, are there are any other options I missed?
^^^ DCPS troll. One bureaucrat who needs to get off the taxpayer dime because he's not a public servant.
Anonymous
08/19/2014 12:14
Subject: Re:Ludlow-Taylor getting a new a new Principal
Anonymous wrote:To summarize the possible approaches
A. White folks, get used to a school with lots black/low SES kids, LT is fine, its got TEST SCORES, suck it up racists
B. We can flip this school, if only we can overcome the prisoners dilemma - maybe we could all sign a pact to keep our kids in LT till 3rd grade at least? We could meet in a back alley with candles and swear on our ancestors honor?
C. DCPS needs tp provide goodies - music rooms, gardens, stuff like that. And a pony. Because flipping LT is more important ot DCPS than building new middle schools EOTP. Or something.
D. Its all about the principal. If the new principal is good, the upward spiral will start without much else
Am I missing anything?
^^^ DCPS troll. One bureaucrat who needs to get off the taxpayer dime because he's not a public servant.