Disgusting and racist? That would have been Cobbs biting my head off for asking how many Asian children were at L-T past PreK in front of other prospective parents. I'm told the answer was one. Her answer was WHAT AN INAPPROPRIATE QUESTION (at high volume). My ill feelings about Cobb were surely passed down to my own kids, who were standing right there. Any wonder that some of us are surprised and pleased that DCPS has selected a white principal? We may be disappointed in her stewardship of the school, but, hey, it's a new day for now.

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Anonymous wrote:I just saw a picture of the new candidate. My confidence is renewed that LT is headed in the right direction.

This takes the prize for the most disgusting and racist comment on this thread thus far. I truly hope your ill feelings about AA people in leadership positions (or otherwise) are not being passed down to your children.

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Anonymous wrote:I just saw a picture of the new candidate. My confidence is renewed that LT is headed in the right direction.

This takes the prize for the most disgusting and racist comment on this thread thus far. I truly hope your ill feelings about AA people in leadership positions (or otherwise) are not being passed down to your children.

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Anonymous wrote:I just saw a picture of the new candidate. My confidence is renewed that LT is headed in the right direction.

This takes the prize for the most disgusting and racist comment on this thread thus far. I truly hope your ill feelings about AA people in leadership positions (or otherwise) are not being passed down to your children.

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Anonymous wrote:...read in another thread a refence to an alleged 'PTA coup' at LT some time ago and could not find info despite having read almost all the LT post on here. Can someone enlighten me?

Also, when will we know who the new principal is? Last I have heard there were 5 candidates being considered but I have no info on who they might be.

Think the PTA coup was Payne. I'm not independently confirming, that's just what I recall from DCUM.

PTA coup was indeed at Payne, in the spring of 2012. Payne teachers turned up in force for the first time at a meeting and voted out the entire gentrifier leadership, which was comprised of in-boundary parents of preschool kids, with the principal raising no resistance. These parents had started the PTA and done a great job raising money. L-T's PTA hasn't been down that road and seems to be growing more inclusive (and in-bounds).

Not a bad thing that the new L-T principal is white, like Maury's, like Brent's, like SWS', like the majority of in-boundary parents of little kids.

There was a PTA "coup" at LT in 2011 - now 3 years ago. Many of those involved are no longer in the school and now the principal is gone so I think the details are not important.

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Anonymous wrote:^^^ That's too bad how you feel. Her race will have nothing to do with how good a job she'll do. Hopefully she's a good administrator and fair, and will be a Hill resident committed to the community. The Cluster blows.

If her race doesn't matter, why does it matter if she is a hill resident? Do you think that teachers and administrators should live in the neighborhoods where they work in order to be effective?

Absolutely yes, because a principal is critical to the stability of the school and neighborhood. You need someone committed to the neighborhood. Hopefully Ms. Bell will not be commuting from Warrenton and treating this like another job and paycheck, but will actually move onto the Hill and want to make life here better for her neighbors. LT has soooo much awesome potential to be a positive neighborhood school; a principal who cares about that can and will make it happen.

If that's the case, how many principal candidates would be able to afford to buy a house in the Key, Murch, Janney, or Stoddert neighborhoods. Not everyone principal candidate can afford to pay $600-800k for a house on Capitol Hill. DC is not the small town that you probably grew up in in PA, IA, or wherever you're from. In those small communities where most gentrifiers like yourself are from, the principal is head of the elementary, middle, and high school. Welcome to the bug city, where people can choose to live where they want and still care about students.

The principal has to care about the community too, in addition to the students. I'm willing to bet you don't live IB to LT, so shut up.

What do you need from the principal in order to feel cared about? Whatever it is, does the principal have to live on G St in order for that to happen? Additionally, how committed are you to L-T, will your child be enrolled through 5th grade, or will you bail after 4th? If you're not committed to L-T for the long haul and aren't committed to making L-T a better school, then perhaps you should stop talking.

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Anonymous wrote:^^^ That's too bad how you feel. Her race will have nothing to do with how good a job she'll do. Hopefully she's a good administrator and fair, and will be a Hill resident committed to the community. The Cluster blows.

If her race doesn't matter, why does it matter if she is a hill resident? Do you think that teachers and administrators should live in the neighborhoods where they work in order to be effective?

Absolutely yes, because a principal is critical to the stability of the school and neighborhood. You need someone committed to the neighborhood. Hopefully Ms. Bell will not be commuting from Warrenton and treating this like another job and paycheck, but will actually move onto the Hill and want to make life here better for her neighbors. LT has soooo much awesome potential to be a positive neighborhood school; a principal who cares about that can and will make it happen.

If that's the case, how many principal candidates would be able to afford to buy a house in the Key, Murch, Janney, or Stoddert neighborhoods. Not everyone principal candidate can afford to pay $600-800k for a house on Capitol Hill. DC is not the small town that you probably grew up in in PA, IA, or wherever you're from. In those small communities where most gentrifiers like yourself are from, the principal is head of the elementary, middle, and high school. Welcome to the bug city, where people can choose to live where they want and still care about students.

The principal has to care about the community too, in addition to the students. I'm willing to bet you don't live IB to LT, so shut up.

Funny, I'm White and when I saw the picture I was disappointed that the new principal will be White. I think it would have been perfect to have a strong, young but with some experience, AA man or woman who has experience with diverse schools. Someone who had been in a school with a variety of races, economic situations, who could bring people together and break down barriers. I hope this woman is up to the task ahead of her. I do have faith in the superintendent and L-T team who were leading up the principal panel.

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Anonymous wrote:^^^ That's too bad how you feel. Her race will have nothing to do with how good a job she'll do. Hopefully she's a good administrator and fair, and will be a Hill resident committed to the community. The Cluster blows.

If her race doesn't matter, why does it matter if she is a hill resident? Do you think that teachers and administrators should live in the neighborhoods where they work in order to be effective?

Absolutely yes, because a principal is critical to the stability of the school and neighborhood. You need someone committed to the neighborhood. Hopefully Ms. Bell will not be commuting from Warrenton and treating this like another job and paycheck, but will actually move onto the Hill and want to make life here better for her neighbors. LT has soooo much awesome potential to be a positive neighborhood school; a principal who cares about that can and will make it happen.

If that's the case, how many principal candidates would be able to afford to buy a house in the Key, Murch, Janney, or Stoddert neighborhoods. Not everyone principal candidate can afford to pay $600-800k for a house on Capitol Hill. DC is not the small town that you probably grew up in in PA, IA, or wherever you're from. In those small communities where most gentrifiers like yourself are from, the principal is head of the elementary, middle, and high school. Welcome to the bug city, where people can choose to live where they want and still care about students.

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Anonymous wrote:^^^ That's too bad how you feel. Her race will have nothing to do with how good a job she'll do. Hopefully she's a good administrator and fair, and will be a Hill resident committed to the community. The Cluster blows.

If her race doesn't matter, why does it matter if she is a hill resident? Do you think that teachers and administrators should live in the neighborhoods where they work in order to be effective?

Absolutely yes, because a principal is critical to the stability of the school and neighborhood. You need someone committed to the neighborhood. Hopefully Ms. Bell will not be commuting from Warrenton and treating this like another job and paycheck, but will actually move onto the Hill and want to make life here better for her neighbors. LT has soooo much awesome potential to be a positive neighborhood school; a principal who cares about that can and will make it happen.

She was still commuting to her previous DCPS position from Warrenton. What makes people think she'll now move to the Hill when she's close to retirement?

Oh, too bad for you all. Sounds like another non-resident paycheck and just doing my job......

An AA principal from outside the system who'd led a high-performing school would be just as welcome.

And I assume that all those IB LT families who defected to the Cluster will soon get a reality check and suddenly get patriotic about LT. They'll decide that LT is where it's at and dump Watkins. I know I would. Easy come, easy go. Watkins will further deteriorate. Such is life......... Let's pray Bell is the good principal LT deserves.

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Anonymous wrote:^^^ That's too bad how you feel. Her race will have nothing to do with how good a job she'll do. Hopefully she's a good administrator and fair, and will be a Hill resident committed to the community. The Cluster blows.

If her race doesn't matter, why does it matter if she is a hill resident? Do you think that teachers and administrators should live in the neighborhoods where they work in order to be effective?

Absolutely yes, because a principal is critical to the stability of the school and neighborhood. You need someone committed to the neighborhood. Hopefully Ms. Bell will not be commuting from Warrenton and treating this like another job and paycheck, but will actually move onto the Hill and want to make life here better for her neighbors. LT has soooo much awesome potential to be a positive neighborhood school; a principal who cares about that can and will make it happen.

She was still commuting to her previous DCPS position from Warrenton. What makes people think she'll now move to the Hill when she's close to retirement?

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Anonymous wrote:^^^ That's too bad how you feel. Her race will have nothing to do with how good a job she'll do. Hopefully she's a good administrator and fair, and will be a Hill resident committed to the community. The Cluster blows.

If her race doesn't matter, why does it matter if she is a hill resident? Do you think that teachers and administrators should live in the neighborhoods where they work in order to be effective?

Absolutely yes, because a principal is critical to the stability of the school and neighborhood. You need someone committed to the neighborhood. Hopefully Ms. Bell will not be commuting from Warrenton and treating this like another job and paycheck, but will actually move onto the Hill and want to make life here better for her neighbors. LT has soooo much awesome potential to be a positive neighborhood school; a principal who cares about that can and will make it happen.

Anonymous wrote:Who the f cares about the race or ethnic background of the principal? It's about goals, competency and attitude.

I care, privately, as do many other parents of Stanton Park neighborhood tiny tots.

Sadly, it definitely not all about goals, competency and attitude. It's about a installing a leader who doesn't arrive freighted with heavy DCPS luggage owing favors to a range of corrupt and incompetent insiders installed during Barry's tenure and L-T's infamous"in-boundary" parents displaced to PG County by gentrification. Hint: both groups are almost entirely AA.

Get over yourself. A strong white principal, if she is one, represents a new day, as the SWS, Brent and Maury parents, AA, white, Asian, Latino know well. Carpe diem LT school community.