Is Brent PS3 going to be yet another year with long IB waitlist?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:C'mon people.

Those who have the audacity to believe their precious darling is more important than an only child, thus more deserving of a space at Brent, have amnesia.

When that very same child was 2, did they not already have separate drop offs? They managed.

Why should families with only one child be forced out due to unfair practice to attend schools potentially far flung across the city- e.g. Yu Ying, Lamb, MV, IT, etc.

All in bounds children, age 3, or age 4, should have equal status. Period.

Ridiculous. You can't be "forced out" out of something you have no right to in the first place.

Every family with sibling preference now was without it when their oldest child started. What a stupid argument. It just makes sense for children in the same family to attend the same school when possible.

[Anonymous]

No right?

In bounds = In bounds

[Anonymous]

In K. The is why you drop the PS3 Program. Everybody happy.

[Anonymous]

I am not saying that dropping PS3 shouldn't be seriously considered, but I don't think it is quite as easy as that. If Brent reconfigures to four PK4 classe with 80 kids, that means 80 kids (many OOB) going into each of the upper grades whereas 60 seems to be the norm now. That would necessitate an additional classroom at each grade level to keep the class sizes around 20. 3 classes of PK4 is probably the most you would want to do but might also lead to larger class sizes in the upper grades at times.

[Anonymous]

If the norm is 60, then you potetially only need three PK classes. This would give the school more flexibility, including adding a Fifth Grade down the road.

Good luck convincing Mayor Bowser to eliminate the sibling preference. If IB sibling preference is eliminated, presumably the OOB preference would need to go as well. Oh wait, student = student, so why have any preferences at all? Perhaps we should go to a format inspired by the Hunger Games.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am not saying that dropping PS3 shouldn't be seriously considered, but I don't think it is quite as easy as that. If Brent reconfigures to four PK4 classe with 80 kids, that means 80 kids (many OOB) going into each of the upper grades whereas 60 seems to be the norm now. That would necessitate an additional classroom at each grade level to keep the class sizes around 20. 3 classes of PK4 is probably the most you would want to do but might also lead to larger class sizes in the upper grades at times.

This is what I think is going on. Brent can't handle extra classrooms at all the other grade levels, but by having PS3 it gives the school some flexibility with enrollment numbers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No right?

In bounds = In bounds

You don't have a right to attend your inbounds school until kindergarten. It's pure sour grapes to complain about unfairness because other in bounds preschoolers get in instead. I have a rising Brent preschooler too and if she doesn't get in this year I will send her somewhere else until kindergarten. There are plenty of other free options - although if you own in boundary for Brent I doubt you really need the free child care.

[Anonymous]

Unclear why PP thinks 60 is the norm. For each of the past several years, Brent had something like 50 rising PKers. Until this year, they fed into two K classes (although there was a short-lived K-1 mixed age classroom). Brent has now added a third K classroom and enrolled a handful of OOB kids to make up the difference.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like much ado about nothing.

[Anonymous]

I think Brent would have to keep two seats per PK class in reserve for Head Start or SpEd placements. So, three classrooms of 18 students could accommodate 54 IB students. This would seem to be optimal in terms of articulation through K and above, in part, because it would be possible to add a few OOB students so as to ensure that Brent continues to meet the 10 percent OOB mandate going forward.

Brent also needs to start thinking about how best to structure lottery seats beyond the ECE program for 2016-17 in order to avoid a concentration of at risk students in PK.

[Anonymous]

What?! How to avoid the at risk???

[Anonymous]

Sad. Those poor at-risk kids. It gets riskier with adults like you !