Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope the lab school keeps the property. They do good work. If lab can not have it. Sell it for condos because the site does not work for DCPS.

The site worked for DCPS for 60 years. It's a much better site than Key or Mann or Janney or Eaton.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lab is private, needs a private deal I guess. So why don't they take over the about to be empty GDS private ES space? It's even closer to their main buildings. They could do it much more "privately."

The GDS lower school was bought a while ago by an academically selective private school rumored to be a apricey for-profit out of NYC. The other feasible school spot on MacArthur next to the Reservoir was bought by St Patrick's Episcopal Day School. It will house the middle school grades for a private, academically selective, religious school. Tuition at St. Pat's is about 3 times that of Catholic school Our Lady of Victory across the street from St. Pat's and Lab.

Lab, by contrast, is a nonprofit, non-religious, special education school that for 50 years educated students with learning disabilities who were not getting the free, public, and appropriate education of non-disabled students.

You use the word "academically selective" twice to describe other schools, so the implication is that Lab isn't. But it is. It's a private school, unlike publics it gets to choose who it admits, which includes admitting large numbers of students from Maryland and Virginia. Unlike publics it has no obligation to the society at large, its obligation is to its own community. Who it admits -- and who it gives scholarships to -- are totally at the discretion of the school.

There's nothing wrong with that, that's the way all the privates operate. But the other privates don't go around demanding that the citizens of DC -- and the public school students -- foot the bill for their facilities.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who is on the board of trustees at the Lab School?

Lori Soto, wife of Ben Soto, Mayor Bowser's chief fundraiser.
https://modernluxury.com/washington-dc/scene/fab-lab/img171378

See also the list of campaign contributors:
https://efiling.ocf.dc.gov/ContributionExpenditure/Search

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lab is private, needs a private deal I guess. So why don't they take over the about to be empty GDS private ES space? It's even closer to their main buildings. They could do it much more "privately."

The GDS lower school was bought a while ago by an academically selective private school rumored to be a apricey for-profit out of NYC. The other feasible school spot on MacArthur next to the Reservoir was bought by St Patrick's Episcopal Day School. It will house the middle school grades for a private, academically selective, religious school. Tuition at St. Pat's is about 3 times that of Catholic school Our Lady of Victory across the street from St. Pat's and Lab.

Lab, by contrast, is a nonprofit, non-religious, special education school that for 50 years educated students with learning disabilities who were not getting the free, public, and appropriate education of non-disabled students.

The description of Lab as one of "a series of private schools" on the keep Old Hardy website is both inaccurate and inflammatory. The Foxhall site has had only 3 uses: a DC public middle school that closed for under-enrollment, a publicly funded DC charter school that closed for financial and enrollment problems, and a nonprofit special education school designed to serve DC public school students.

Lab is not Sidwell or Whittle. It's not trying to buy the crappy old building. It's not a fly-by-night money maker. Lab actually accepts DC students that the other private schools around it do not.

As a Wilson-feeder parent, here's my question: what is the DCPS plan to serve the increasing number of kids with learning disabilities that will come with the increased population of kids in general?

Or put another way, how can DCPS better serve its most underserved public school students including the hundreds of students with disabilities currently in the Wilson feeder pattern?

Anyone?

Noun-verb-"special needs."

Anonymous wrote:Who is on the board of trustees at the Lab School?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lab is private, needs a private deal I guess. So why don't they take over the about to be empty GDS private ES space? It's even closer to their main buildings. They could do it much more "privately."

The GDS lower school was bought a while ago by an academically selective private school rumored to be a apricey for-profit out of NYC. The other feasible school spot on MacArthur next to the Reservoir was bought by St Patrick's Episcopal Day School. It will house the middle school grades for a private, academically selective, religious school. Tuition at St. Pat's is about 3 times that of Catholic school Our Lady of Victory across the street from St. Pat's and Lab.

Lab, by contrast, is a nonprofit, non-religious, special education school that for 50 years educated students with learning disabilities who were not getting the free, public, and appropriate education of non-disabled students.

The description of Lab as one of "a series of private schools" on the keep Old Hardy website is both inaccurate and inflammatory. The Foxhall site has had only 3 uses: a DC public middle school that closed for under-enrollment, a publicly funded DC charter school that closed for financial and enrollment problems, and a nonprofit special education school designed to serve DC public school students.

Lab is not Sidwell or Whittle. It's not trying to buy the crappy old building. It's not a fly-by-night money maker. Lab actually accepts DC students that the other private schools around it do not.

As a Wilson-feeder parent, here's my question: what is the DCPS plan to serve the increasing number of kids with learning disabilities that will come with the increased population of kids in general?

Or put another way, how can DCPS better serve its most underserved public school students including the hundreds of students with disabilities currently in the Wilson feeder pattern?

Anyone?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lab is private, needs a private deal I guess. So why don't they take over the about to be empty GDS private ES space? It's even closer to their main buildings. They could do it much more "privately."

The GDS lower school was bought a while ago by an academically selective private school rumored to be a apricey for-profit out of NYC. The other feasible school spot on MacArthur next to the Reservoir was bought by St Patrick's Episcopal Day School. It will house the middle school grades for a private, academically selective, religious school. Tuition at St. Pat's is about 3 times that of Catholic school Our Lady of Victory across the street from St. Pat's and Lab.

Lab, by contrast, is a nonprofit, non-religious, special education school that for 50 years educated students with learning disabilities who were not getting the free, public, and appropriate education of non-disabled students.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lab is private, needs a private deal I guess. So why don't they take over the about to be empty GDS private ES space? It's even closer to their main buildings. They could do it much more "privately."

The GDS lower school was bought a while ago by an academically selective private school rumored to be a apricey for-profit out of NYC. The other feasible school spot on MacArthur next to the Reservoir was bought by St Patrick's Episcopal Day School. It will house the middle school grades for a private, academically selective, religious school. Tuition at St. Pat's is about 3 times that of Catholic school Our Lady of Victory across the street from St. Pat's and Lab.

Lab, by contrast, is a nonprofit, non-religious, special education school that for 50 years educated students with learning disabilities who were not getting the free, public, and appropriate education of non-disabled students.

The description of Lab as one of "a series of private schools" on the keep Old Hardy website is both inaccurate and inflammatory. The Foxhall site has had only 3 uses: a DC public middle school that closed for under-enrollment, a publicly funded DC charter school that closed for financial and enrollment problems, and a nonprofit special education school designed to serve DC public school students.

Lab is not Sidwell or Whittle. It's not trying to buy the crappy old building. It's not a fly-by-night money maker. Lab actually accepts DC students that the other private schools around it do not.

As a Wilson-feeder parent, here's my question: what is the DCPS plan to serve the increasing number of kids with learning disabilities that will come with the increased population of kids in general?

Or put another way, how can DCPS better serve its most underserved public school students including the hundreds of students with disabilities currently in the Wilson feeder pattern?

Anyone?

Probably not at Lab. There are only two (2) DCPS students in the building right now.

Overall DCPS is around 15% special needs. If that building was a regular DCPS elementary school it would serve far more special needs kids than it does right now.

Anonymous wrote:I hope the lab school keeps the property. They do good work. If lab can not have it. Sell it for condos because the site does not work for DCPS.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lab is private, needs a private deal I guess. So why don't they take over the about to be empty GDS private ES space? It's even closer to their main buildings. They could do it much more "privately."

The GDS lower school was bought a while ago by an academically selective private school rumored to be a apricey for-profit out of NYC. The other feasible school spot on MacArthur next to the Reservoir was bought by St Patrick's Episcopal Day School. It will house the middle school grades for a private, academically selective, religious school. Tuition at St. Pat's is about 3 times that of Catholic school Our Lady of Victory across the street from St. Pat's and Lab.

Lab, by contrast, is a nonprofit, non-religious, special education school that for 50 years educated students with learning disabilities who were not getting the free, public, and appropriate education of non-disabled students.

The description of Lab as one of "a series of private schools" on the keep Old Hardy website is both inaccurate and inflammatory. The Foxhall site has had only 3 uses: a DC public middle school that closed for under-enrollment, a publicly funded DC charter school that closed for financial and enrollment problems, and a nonprofit special education school designed to serve DC public school students.

Lab is not Sidwell or Whittle. It's not trying to buy the crappy old building. It's not a fly-by-night money maker. Lab actually accepts DC students that the other private schools around it do not.

As a Wilson-feeder parent, here's my question: what is the DCPS plan to serve the increasing number of kids with learning disabilities that will come with the increased population of kids in general?

Or put another way, how can DCPS better serve its most underserved public school students including the hundreds of students with disabilities currently in the Wilson feeder pattern?

Anyone?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lab is private, needs a private deal I guess. So why don't they take over the about to be empty GDS private ES space? It's even closer to their main buildings. They could do it much more "privately."

The GDS lower school was bought a while ago by an academically selective private school rumored to be a apricey for-profit out of NYC. The other feasible school spot on MacArthur next to the Reservoir was bought by St Patrick's Episcopal Day School. It will house the middle school grades for a private, academically selective, religious school. Tuition at St. Pat's is about 3 times that of Catholic school Our Lady of Victory across the street from St. Pat's and Lab.

Lab, by contrast, is a nonprofit, non-religious, special education school that for 50 years educated students with learning disabilities who were not getting the free, public, and appropriate education of non-disabled students.

The description of Lab as one of "a series of private schools" on the keep Old Hardy website is both inaccurate and inflammatory. The Foxhall site has had only 3 uses: a DC public middle school that closed for under-enrollment, a publicly funded DC charter school that closed for financial and enrollment problems, and a nonprofit special education school designed to serve DC public school students.

Lab is not Sidwell or Whittle. It's not trying to buy the crappy old building. It's not a fly-by-night money maker. Lab actually accepts DC students that the other private schools around it do not.

As a Wilson-feeder parent, here's my question: what is the DCPS plan to serve the increasing number of kids with learning disabilities that will come with the increased population of kids in general?

Or put another way, how can DCPS better serve its most underserved public school students including the hundreds of students with disabilities currently in the Wilson feeder pattern?

Anyone?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lab is private, needs a private deal I guess. So why don't they take over the about to be empty GDS private ES space? It's even closer to their main buildings. They could do it much more "privately."

The GDS lower school was bought a while ago by an academically selective private school rumored to be a apricey for-profit out of NYC. The other feasible school spot on MacArthur next to the Reservoir was bought by St Patrick's Episcopal Day School. It will house the middle school grades for a private, academically selective, religious school. Tuition at St. Pat's is about 3 times that of Catholic school Our Lady of Victory across the street from St. Pat's and Lab.

Lab, by contrast, is a nonprofit, non-religious, special education school that for 50 years educated students with learning disabilities who were not getting the free, public, and appropriate education of non-disabled students.

The description of Lab as one of "a series of private schools" on the keep Old Hardy website is both inaccurate and inflammatory. The Foxhall site has had only 3 uses: a DC public middle school that closed for under-enrollment, a publicly funded DC charter school that closed for financial and enrollment problems, and a nonprofit special education school designed to serve DC public school students.

Lab is not Sidwell or Whittle. It's not trying to buy the crappy old building. It's not a fly-by-night money maker. Lab actually accepts DC students that the other private schools around it do not.

As a Wilson-feeder parent, here's my question: what is the DCPS plan to serve the increasing number of kids with learning disabilities that will come with the increased population of kids in general?

Or put another way, how can DCPS better serve its most underserved public school students including the hundreds of students with disabilities currently in the Wilson feeder pattern?

Anyone?

Anonymous wrote:I hope the lab school keeps the property. They do good work. If lab can not have it. Sell it for condos because the site does not work for DCPS.