Janney third grade parents--what do you think of the giant class sizes?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:aka grandparents whose grandchildren are suddenly living with them so they can go to Janney. New addresses are new addresses. It doesn't matter who they are "hoping" will buy them. Every unit has the potential to increase enrollment.

Out of morbid curiosity, I pulled out my most recent copy of the Janney directory to see how many Janney families lived in the Cityline apartments. It's a nice apartment building with an appealing location right across the street from what must be America's favorite elementary school. Do you know how many there were? Three. Yes, three. I'm not too concerned with GDS's building pulling in hoards of five-year-olds to Janney any time soon.

Thank you for this. I was talking with another Janney parent the other day who was telling me how awful the GDS development was because of the potential new families. I thought she was nuts and here's the evidence.

Don't be so sure. It all depends on the final building configuration and the lease terms. People are renting efficiency apartments to be in-bounds for schools like Murch and Eaton. There are few multifamily buildings in the Janney district currently, and Janney is a higher ranked school. So the incentive for people to rent even sub-optimally sized units is there.

The point is that there already are a few opportunities to do this and no one is taking advantage of it. The proof is in the Janney directory.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:aka grandparents whose grandchildren are suddenly living with them so they can go to Janney. New addresses are new addresses. It doesn't matter who they are "hoping" will buy them. Every unit has the potential to increase enrollment.

Out of morbid curiosity, I pulled out my most recent copy of the Janney directory to see how many Janney families lived in the Cityline apartments. It's a nice apartment building with an appealing location right across the street from what must be America's favorite elementary school. Do you know how many there were? Three. Yes, three. I'm not too concerned with GDS's building pulling in hoards of five-year-olds to Janney any time soon.

Thank you for this. I was talking with another Janney parent the other day who was telling me how awful the GDS development was because of the potential new families. I thought she was nuts and here's the evidence.

Don't be so sure. It all depends on the final building configuration and the lease terms. People are renting efficiency apartments to be in-bounds for schools like Murch and Eaton. There are few multifamily buildings in the Janney district currently, and Janney is a higher ranked school. So the incentive for people to rent even sub-optimally sized units is there.

The point is that there already are a few opportunities to do this and no one is taking advantage of it. The proof is in the Janney directory.

Does every Janney parent list their address? At our school many parents opt out of the directory or only share a phone number or email.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:aka grandparents whose grandchildren are suddenly living with them so they can go to Janney. New addresses are new addresses. It doesn't matter who they are "hoping" will buy them. Every unit has the potential to increase enrollment.

Out of morbid curiosity, I pulled out my most recent copy of the Janney directory to see how many Janney families lived in the Cityline apartments. It's a nice apartment building with an appealing location right across the street from what must be America's favorite elementary school. Do you know how many there were? Three. Yes, three. I'm not too concerned with GDS's building pulling in hoards of five-year-olds to Janney any time soon.

Thank you for this. I was talking with another Janney parent the other day who was telling me how awful the GDS development was because of the potential new families. I thought she was nuts and here's the evidence.

Don't be so sure. It all depends on the final building configuration and the lease terms. People are renting efficiency apartments to be in-bounds for schools like Murch and Eaton. There are few multifamily buildings in the Janney district currently, and Janney is a higher ranked school. So the incentive for people to rent even sub-optimally sized units is there.

The point is that there already are a few opportunities to do this and no one is taking advantage of it. The proof is in the Janney directory.

Does every Janney parent list their address? At our school many parents opt out of the directory or only share a phone number or email.

I looked for that and there were virtually no telephone numbers without addresses. Don't know about any complete opt outs but in my cumulative ten years at Janney I've never come across a situation where I needed contact information and I couldn't find it in the directory (i.e. like for the play or a class gathering).

[Anonymous]

. There are few multifamily buildings in the Janney district currently, and Janney is a higher ranked school.

Because there are few multi-family buildings (and zero rental multi-family buildings) .... Janney is a higher ranked school.


Fixed this for you.


The Janney special sauce is all about its 99% upper-middle-class student body.

[Anonymous]

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I looked for that and there were virtually no telephone numbers without addresses. Don't know about any complete opt outs but in my cumulative ten years at Janney I've never come across a situation where I needed contact information and I couldn't find it in the directory (i.e. like for the play or a class gathering).

There was a girl in my son's K class last year who didn't have any info listed. It's not common, but it does happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I looked for that and there were virtually no telephone numbers without addresses. Don't know about any complete opt outs but in my cumulative ten years at Janney I've never come across a situation where I needed contact information and I couldn't find it in the directory (i.e. like for the play or a class gathering).

There was a girl in my son's K class last year who didn't have any info listed. It's not common, but it does happen.

It definitely happens. Particularly if you move mid-year. I just looked again and saw that there was exactly one family who listed telephone numbers without a corresponding address. Interestingly, I also looked to see if anyone lived in the Harrison apartment building by the Bank of America on Harrison St. There were no Janney families listed at that address. Really, this issue seems to be somewhat akin to Republicans freaking out about voter fraud.

[Anonymous]

Janney parent here and I did not list my info in the directory. When we were new to the school,I had no idea how this info was going to be used and didn't want to be marketed to, get junk mail, etc.
I didn't get around to changing that the next year.
I live in boundary. Occasionally a parent will say, "is your child in the directory? I couldn't find her."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:aka grandparents whose grandchildren are suddenly living with them so they can go to Janney. New addresses are new addresses. It doesn't matter who they are "hoping" will buy them. Every unit has the potential to increase enrollment.

Out of morbid curiosity, I pulled out my most recent copy of the Janney directory to see how many Janney families lived in the Cityline apartments. It's a nice apartment building with an appealing location right across the street from what must be America's favorite elementary school. Do you know how many there were? Three. Yes, three. I'm not too concerned with GDS's building pulling in hoards of five-year-olds to Janney any time soon.

Thank you for this. I was talking with another Janney parent the other day who was telling me how awful the GDS development was because of the potential new families. I thought she was nuts and here's the evidence.

Don't be so sure. It all depends on the final building configuration and the lease terms. People are renting efficiency apartments to be in-bounds for schools like Murch and Eaton. There are few multifamily buildings in the Janney district currently, and Janney is a higher ranked school. So the incentive for people to rent even sub-optimally sized units is there.

The point is that there already are a few opportunities to do this and no one is taking advantage of it. The proof is in the Janney directory.

Does every Janney parent list their address? At our school many parents opt out of the directory or only share a phone number or email.

This can be a red flag for residency fraud.