This thread had scared me quite a bit, but now that school has started (my DC is in preK), and we have been to a few school's functions, I see that a lot of what's said here is almost hallucinatory.

Principal is nice, although not particularly warm (just my feeling, might be she is just reasonably stressed out).
Parents volunteered to set up a new website. There will be a new grow your vegetables/cook your meal program, for which parents have volunteered appliances and cookware.
There is an active listserv and active parents community that cares about the school and the teachers.

All the kids I have seen ( black and white, young and older) seem nice and well behaved. The classroom we are in was spotless and very well organized. I really can not yet see one thing wrong with the school.

For the skeptics worried about IB white V OOB black issues: it is true that preK is almost all white/Probably IB, and later grades almost all AA (IB or OOB not sure). But that goes only to show that *if* white high SES IB patents are so eager to exclude the "unwanted", all they have to do is enroll and there won't be one spot left for "the others".

Honestly, I love walking DC to school and hate a commute to school so much, that unless something really bad happens, we will be there for at least 5-6 years. I think short commute to school trumps absence of chess club or great AV system.

So how is the new leadership working out?
-Curious neighbor

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone who enrolled and withdrawn from Ludlow continued to get school contact? We got in via lottery on PK4, and disenroll for our inbound back in June. We've continued to get school correspondence, including a teacher assignment. I've called the school 4 times to "re-disenroll."

Are you part of the school/PTA list-serve? Post on there and I'm sure somebody can help you get disenrolled- it's in their interests to have people disenroll earlier so they can fill the slots before count day. Also - talk to somebody different in the front office since the person you're talking with doesn't seem to have made it happen.

The only way I finally got dis enrolled was to email the new principal.

An omen of positive things to come!

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone who enrolled and withdrawn from Ludlow continued to get school contact? We got in via lottery on PK4, and disenroll for our inbound back in June. We've continued to get school correspondence, including a teacher assignment. I've called the school 4 times to "re-disenroll."

Are you part of the school/PTA list-serve? Post on there and I'm sure somebody can help you get disenrolled- it's in their interests to have people disenroll earlier so they can fill the slots before count day. Also - talk to somebody different in the front office since the person you're talking with doesn't seem to have made it happen.

The only way I finally got dis enrolled was to email the new principal.

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Anonymous wrote:How many white kids graduate from DCPS middle schools other than Deal? As long as Wilson is considered good, and almost no white kids graduate from DCPS middle schools other than Deal (and Hardy, and OA, all of which feed Wilson) which white kids would logically go to Banneker? Charter middle school grads?

This is a very good point. Just not sure what it has to do with LT.

What is OA?

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone who enrolled and withdrawn from Ludlow continued to get school contact? We got in via lottery on PK4, and disenroll for our inbound back in June. We've continued to get school correspondence, including a teacher assignment. I've called the school 4 times to "re-disenroll."

Are you part of the school/PTA list-serve? Post on there and I'm sure somebody can help you get disenrolled- it's in their interests to have people disenroll earlier so they can fill the slots before count day. Also - talk to somebody different in the front office since the person you're talking with doesn't seem to have made it happen.

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone who enrolled and withdrawn from Ludlow continued to get school contact? We got in via lottery on PK4, and disenroll for our inbound back in June. We've continued to get school correspondence, including a teacher assignment. I've called the school 4 times to "re-disenroll."

What is your IB school? LT is supposed to be super.

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Anonymous wrote:How many white kids graduate from DCPS middle schools other than Deal? As long as Wilson is considered good, and almost no white kids graduate from DCPS middle schools other than Deal (and Hardy, and OA, all of which feed Wilson) which white kids would logically go to Banneker? Charter middle school grads?

Of the Stuart Hobson white grads I can think of in recent years, they have gone to Wilson academies, SWW, Ellington, McKinley and various private and parochial schools. Get out of NW every once in a while, please.

PP, I think the question was how many white kids graduate from DCPS middle schools other than Deal. At the SH, what is it 10 out of 200? Save the cheerleading spin.

Has anyone who enrolled and withdrawn from Ludlow continued to get school contact? We got in via lottery on PK4, and disenroll for our inbound back in June. We've continued to get school correspondence, including a teacher assignment. I've called the school 4 times to "re-disenroll."

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, I went to *private* school in Europe (K to MS) and we never dreamed of a lot if the things in one of the pp lists. Chess club? Music in ES? AV system for theater productions ? It wound have sounded totally crazy to ask for those things.

I feel it is the sane thing with hospitals and colleges: a lot if bells and whistles here look over the top to an outsider like me.

I went to a run of the mill middling public elementary school in NYC in the 1960's and we had music, which I remember very fondly. I'm not sure why that's such a big deal. Didn't have chess club till HS, but how expensive to implement is that, exactly?

Club quality chess sets are available online for less than $10 per set. A few of those, Principals's OK to use a room after school, and a grown up who knows the game, and you're set. Go a little further and you can enlist a local law firm or company to use their public service hours to come play chess with the kids. Go a little further and raise a couple hundred and you can hire a chess teacher. Just need a parent to step up and organize it. That's how our school did it.

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Anonymous wrote:How many white kids graduate from DCPS middle schools other than Deal? As long as Wilson is considered good, and almost no white kids graduate from DCPS middle schools other than Deal (and Hardy, and OA, all of which feed Wilson) which white kids would logically go to Banneker? Charter middle school grads?

Banneker's just another magnet high school. White kids go to Walls and Ellington, both magnet schools. Why wouldn't they apply to Banneker, another magnet school? When my white kid was in 8th grade, she applied to all three along with the magnet programs at Wilson.

Isnt Ellington an arts school that has programs Wilson does not have? Is not walls also unique? Does Banneker have programs Wilson does not have?

International Baccalaureate.

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Anonymous wrote:How many white kids graduate from DCPS middle schools other than Deal? As long as Wilson is considered good, and almost no white kids graduate from DCPS middle schools other than Deal (and Hardy, and OA, all of which feed Wilson) which white kids would logically go to Banneker? Charter middle school grads?

Banneker's just another magnet high school. White kids go to Walls and Ellington, both magnet schools. Why wouldn't they apply to Banneker, another magnet school? When my white kid was in 8th grade, she applied to all three along with the magnet programs at Wilson.

Isnt Ellington an arts school that has programs Wilson does not have? Is not walls also unique? Does Banneker have programs Wilson does not have?

Not sure but a good number of white Wilson grads end up at elite universities. Not sure this is the case with the others.

Anonymous wrote:How many white kids graduate from DCPS middle schools other than Deal? As long as Wilson is considered good, and almost no white kids graduate from DCPS middle schools other than Deal (and Hardy, and OA, all of which feed Wilson) which white kids would logically go to Banneker? Charter middle school grads?

Of the Stuart Hobson white grads I can think of in recent years, they have gone to Wilson academies, SWW, Ellington, McKinley and various private and parochial schools. Get out of NW every once in a while, please.

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Anonymous wrote:How many white kids graduate from DCPS middle schools other than Deal? As long as Wilson is considered good, and almost no white kids graduate from DCPS middle schools other than Deal (and Hardy, and OA, all of which feed Wilson) which white kids would logically go to Banneker? Charter middle school grads?

This is a very good point. Just not sure what it has to do with LT.

sorry for going off topic - back to the usual innuendo, test score quoting and race bashing

Anonymous wrote:How many white kids graduate from DCPS middle schools other than Deal? As long as Wilson is considered good, and almost no white kids graduate from DCPS middle schools other than Deal (and Hardy, and OA, all of which feed Wilson) which white kids would logically go to Banneker? Charter middle school grads?

This is a very good point. Just not sure what it has to do with LT.