Will Janney eventually reduce or eliminate PK4

[Anonymous]

Another Hearst booster here whose family loves the school and all the enrichment options.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think Janney needs to "eliminate" PK4 but having 4 or 5 classrooms for PK4 doesn't make sense when the school is overcrowded.

Then it becomes a siblings only program. Which is unfair as well.

And therefore what? PK is not a mandatory "grade." You think older kids should be in a 30+ class?

Of course. Because somebody paid a lot of money to live near Janney. Have you actually driven around there? We had an appointment in Friendship Heights and were forced to park on Jennifer Street. Dolls couldn't live in those houses - no surprise they're all angry and miserable! Now the crowded children are in crowded classrooms because new people coming in want free PreK. So what? Pay for your own daycare! It's insane that toddlercare has become such a hot button. It's Tenleytown not Tokyo.

I don't understand this. Jennifer Street is in Friendship Heights. Why would this be an issue? And you are probably talking about free on-street parking. There i plenty of off-street garage parking that you would need to pay for - the lots at most of the buildings in Maryland, Saks, Mazza Gallery and Chevy Chase Center are never close to capacity.

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Anonymous wrote:Didn't the 2014 revisions allow DME to tweak Janney's boundaries without going through the formal process? The Janney parents really need to push this to try and get a handle on the runaway train that the school has become.

Yes, it did. But whether it gets used is another question. The Janney (or prospective Janney) parents who fought off the small switch that was proposed were virulent in their opposition. Anyone getting kicked out will probably fight just as hard. Who within Janney is really going to champion a boundary change and would be willing to take that much hatred from other parents at the school?

What a difference a few years can make, though. With the rise and renovation of Hearst you'd think the future Janney parents on the southern boundary would be demanding a switch to a 300 student school in order to avoid the caricature that Janney has become.

Says the Hearst booster. In reality, Janney is still a fantastic school, and the size has many advantages. No other school in DC offers such a wide range of enrichment options.

Key, Mann, Yu Ying, LAMB, Mundo Verde, Brent, Oyster and Ross all come to mind oh booster lady.

I guess some people just think that when they find something good in a public school that they weren't expecting, it must be unique to them. Happily for DC kids, it isn't.

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I thought Mann was the best DCPS? No, it's Key that's the best DCPS. But isn't Lafayette the one that Mayor Fenty's children attended OOB (even though their mother really wanted private and only put them in DCPS because of his political career). So it must be the best. Is Janney the one where the dads all wear sandals and the moms are all overweight? Don't kids from those neighborhoods leave their IBs and go to Yu Ying? And, what about Oyster, didn't Michelle Rhee's children go there?

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Anonymous wrote:I think they'd sooner change the boundary than remove PK4. But it does seem likely that before doing either of those things, they'd reduce the number of PK4 classes. They need at least a few for Early Stages placements.

No they don't. I am in early-stage his mom and early stages will provide transportation to the closest preschool.

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Anonymous wrote:I think they'd sooner change the boundary than remove PK4. But it does seem likely that before doing either of those things, they'd reduce the number of PK4 classes. They need at least a few for Early Stages placements.

No they don't. I am in early-stage his mom and early stages will provide transportation to the closest preschool.

Closest preschool with the most appropriate program, not always the closest geographically or one's neighborhood school.

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Did I just read someone say dolls couldnt live in the Jenifer st houses because they are so small?

Who ARE you horrible snobby and not particularly correct people? It's like this car crash of awfulness. Will it be worse if trump wins?

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Anonymous wrote:Did I just read someone say dolls couldnt live in the Jenifer st houses because they are so small?

Who ARE you horrible snobby and not particularly correct people? It's like this car crash of awfulness. Will it be worse if trump wins?

You do know that the vast, vast, vast majority of DC residents are Obama, Hillary and Bernie folk right? This is just infighting amongst the inclusive Democrats.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought Mann was the best DCPS? No, it's Key that's the best DCPS. But isn't Lafayette the one that Mayor Fenty's children attended OOB (even though their mother really wanted private and only put them in DCPS because of his political career). So it must be the best. Is Janney the one where the dads all wear sandals and the moms are all overweight? Don't kids from those neighborhoods leave their IBs and go to Yu Ying? And, what about Oyster, didn't Michelle Rhee's children go there?

JKLM. Not Murch. And certainly not Hearst.

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Anonymous wrote:Didn't the 2014 revisions allow DME to tweak Janney's boundaries without going through the formal process? The Janney parents really need to push this to try and get a handle on the runaway train that the school has become.

Yes, it did. But whether it gets used is another question. The Janney (or prospective Janney) parents who fought off the small switch that was proposed were virulent in their opposition. Anyone getting kicked out will probably fight just as hard. Who within Janney is really going to champion a boundary change and would be willing to take that much hatred from other parents at the school?

What a difference a few years can make, though. With the rise and renovation of Hearst you'd think the future Janney parents on the southern boundary would be demanding a switch to a 300 student school in order to avoid the caricature that Janney has become.

Says the Hearst booster. In reality, Janney is still a fantastic school, and the size has many advantages. No other school in DC offers such a wide range of enrichment options.

New Hearst booster here. We have awesome enrichments too and a fantastic community and at only 319 kids. iIm ok with the borders not changing, especially for a bunch of parents who fought hard against it just a couple of years ago.

It's a bit of chicken and egg. Once Hearst's OOB numbers fall significantly so that Hearst is a majority neighborhood school and climbing, more people will want to send their kids there. At this point, Hearst's enrollment is so diffuse that there are kids who arrive and leave every day in MD cars to go back to their homes in MD.

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Lots of people just pushing the "hot button" tired old slanders today.

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Anonymous wrote:Did I just read someone say dolls couldnt live in the Jenifer st houses because they are so small?

Who ARE you horrible snobby and not particularly correct people? It's like this car crash of awfulness. Will it be worse if trump wins?

You do know that the vast, vast, vast majority of DC residents are Obama, Hillary and Bernie folk right? This is just infighting amongst the inclusive Democrats.

Highly doubt that PP was a DC resident. More like a suburbanite who had to drive to FH for a doctor's appointment.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Didn't the 2014 revisions allow DME to tweak Janney's boundaries without going through the formal process? The Janney parents really need to push this to try and get a handle on the runaway train that the school has become.

Yes, it did. But whether it gets used is another question. The Janney (or prospective Janney) parents who fought off the small switch that was proposed were virulent in their opposition. Anyone getting kicked out will probably fight just as hard. Who within Janney is really going to champion a boundary change and would be willing to take that much hatred from other parents at the school?

What a difference a few years can make, though. With the rise and renovation of Hearst you'd think the future Janney parents on the southern boundary would be demanding a switch to a 300 student school in order to avoid the caricature that Janney has become.

Says the Hearst booster. In reality, Janney is still a fantastic school, and the size has many advantages. No other school in DC offers such a wide range of enrichment options.

New Hearst booster here. We have awesome enrichments too and a fantastic community and at only 319 kids. iIm ok with the borders not changing, especially for a bunch of parents who fought hard against it just a couple of years ago.

It's a bit of chicken and egg. Once Hearst's OOB numbers fall significantly so that Hearst is a majority neighborhood school and climbing, more people will want to send their kids there. At this point, Hearst's enrollment is so diffuse that there are kids who arrive and leave every day in MD cars to go back to their homes in MD.

The flip occurred 2 years ago. The incoming PK4 class is over 80% IB. In the last lottery round some Eaton and some Murch families are tried unsuccessfully to get in on proximity. Janney families who fought the boundary shift in 2014 will have to reap what they have sowed. The portable classrooms will be removed this week, so no more room at the inn.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Didn't the 2014 revisions allow DME to tweak Janney's boundaries without going through the formal process? The Janney parents really need to push this to try and get a handle on the runaway train that the school has become.

Yes, it did. But whether it gets used is another question. The Janney (or prospective Janney) parents who fought off the small switch that was proposed were virulent in their opposition. Anyone getting kicked out will probably fight just as hard. Who within Janney is really going to champion a boundary change and would be willing to take that much hatred from other parents at the school?

What a difference a few years can make, though. With the rise and renovation of Hearst you'd think the future Janney parents on the southern boundary would be demanding a switch to a 300 student school in order to avoid the caricature that Janney has become.

Says the Hearst booster. In reality, Janney is still a fantastic school, and the size has many advantages. No other school in DC offers such a wide range of enrichment options.

New Hearst booster here. We have awesome enrichments too and a fantastic community and at only 319 kids. iIm ok with the borders not changing, especially for a bunch of parents who fought hard against it just a couple of years ago.

It's a bit of chicken and egg. Once Hearst's OOB numbers fall significantly so that Hearst is a majority neighborhood school and climbing, more people will want to send their kids there. At this point, Hearst's enrollment is so diffuse that there are kids who arrive and leave every day in MD cars to go back to their homes in MD.

The flip occurred 2 years ago. The incoming PK4 class is over 80% IB. In the last lottery round some Eaton and some Murch families are tried unsuccessfully to get in on proximity. Janney families who fought the boundary shift in 2014 will have to reap what they have sowed. The portable classrooms will be removed this week, so no more room at the inn.

Eaton families (especially IB) are trying to get into nearby Hearst because they are upset at the DCPS diktat that forced Eaton students from Deal to second-tier Hardy M.S.

[Anonymous]

Why can't they just build another school inside the Jamey boundary. Every parent there is super smart and full of resources. Just do it.