Lingelbach Elementary, kids swarm the new playground in front of the building on Wayne Avenue in Germantown.
In the past, Riley said, he might spend 60 minutes of a 90-minute instructional block teaching; the rest of the time was spent handling classroom issues, counseling a student or addressing student behavior. “I said, ‘We’re doing things all wrong. We could be doing so much better for these kids,’” Serock remembers. Waddell was on board right away. The principal took the course herself and found the funds for every Lingelbach K-2 teacher to do the same.
Kids, teachers and parents also dreamed of a playground after years of only patchy concrete in front of the school. “The kids are knowledgeable about the natural environment, and that’s a huge shift,” Riley said. “When I started here, kids viewed the outdoors as a scary place.”A decade ago, 88% of Lingelbach’s students were Black, and 1% were white. These days, 75% are Black and 16% are white , with more diversity in the younger grades.
Waddell is keenly aware that changes to Lingelbach could minimize or exclude the Black families who have sent their children to the school for decades.
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