Will Janney eventually reduce or eliminate PK4

[Anonymous]

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DCPS actually implemented a NON Head Start program in 1972.

No, it was the this "state's" implementation of the federal Head Start program. Just because it wasn't named "Head" "Start" doesn't make it NON Head Start. They used federal funds allocated under the federal Head Start program. DC was one of the first to get it done. New York was the very first and Boston and, I think, Philly were right up there.

You should just really read the report: http://fcd-us.org/sites/default/files/Pre-K%20for%20All%20DC%20Case%20Study.pdf

NP. I read the report and it says that DC started a test pilot school for Head Start in the 60s and expanded the program in the 70s so that each school had at least one preK class. That is what PP said. Over the years, DC has expanded the program, in a patchwork manner, to serve 70% of children in the 2000s, through federal funding and through grants.

Nowhere does it say it "expanded" Head Start in the 1970s. It was a completely new non Head Start program with per pupil funding (like every other grade in DCPS). Of course there were still Head Start kids in the program but like today, having Head Start kids in a program doesn't make the entire program a Head Start program.

This is why Janney will always have pre-k.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're thinking of moving into the AU Park neighborhood in the next few years. We plan on moving so our youngest kid could start at Janney in K. We just saw that the Janney school population has increased from 690 to 735 in the past year. What population is the school designed for? We're starting to get worried about overcrowding at Janney. What are the chances that PK4 gets reduced or eliminated so that the school has room for manageable class sizes.?

Janney will get even bigger if the mayor follows through with the plan for every school student body to include 10% "at risk" students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're thinking of moving into the AU Park neighborhood in the next few years. We plan on moving so our youngest kid could start at Janney in K. We just saw that the Janney school population has increased from 690 to 735 in the past year. What population is the school designed for? We're starting to get worried about overcrowding at Janney. What are the chances that PK4 gets reduced or eliminated so that the school has room for manageable class sizes.?

Janney will get even bigger if the mayor follows through with the plan for every school student body to include 10% "at risk" students.

How could the Janney facility possibly accommodate an extra 10%? It's already bursting at the seams, can't believe the population difference in just a few years.

[Anonymous]

When my kids started at Janney in 2007 there were 250 students in the whole school --that included 6th graders!

[Anonymous]

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?

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

1) You mean afterschool activities that you pay for
2) How do you know what other schools' afterschool options are?

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When my kids started at Janney in 2007 there were 250 students in the whole school --that included 6th graders!

That number sounded off to me. Because I'm super lame, I just went and counted the number of kids in my DC's 2006/7 kindergarten yearbook. There were 383 students that year with one pre-k class and two classes each of 5th and 6th grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're thinking of moving into the AU Park neighborhood in the next few years. We plan on moving so our youngest kid could start at Janney in K. We just saw that the Janney school population has increased from 690 to 735 in the past year. What population is the school designed for? We're starting to get worried about overcrowding at Janney. What are the chances that PK4 gets reduced or eliminated so that the school has room for manageable class sizes.?

Janney will get even bigger if the mayor follows through with the plan for every school student body to include 10% "at risk" students.

How could the Janney facility possibly accommodate an extra 10%? It's already bursting at the seams, can't believe the population difference in just a few years.

Basically every thing east of Wisconsin gets sent from Janney to Murch or more likely to Hearst, to make room for the 10% so-called at risk quota. It's basically a set aside for Ward 8 studemts. Deal and Wilson will also feel impacts, likely resulting in further realignment of NW feeder schools.

[Anonymous]

Actually I am a Hearst parent, and I'd rather not have any Janney parents, thank you very much. Not because they aren't lovely, I am sure they are, but because the quick rise in popularity of Hearst threatens the possibility of overcrowding there. Janney can keep that!

[Anonymous]

I don't understand why these Janney threads become so insufferable. Most Janney parents IRL seem totally normal, as to other parents I meet from other schols.
I'm confused why some posters seem to have an axe with Janney. Most of us had nothing to do with any of the decisions that were previously made, including the boundary changes, expanding (or not) PK, school renovations, etc.
So if there were some nasty parents who didn't want to be rezoned to Hearst. Likewise, as I recall, there was an endless thread by Murch parents who didn't want to be rezoned to Hearst.
Then of course, you have to have the smug Hearst families who post that they don't want anyone else at their school.
Again, in real life, I don't meet any people who feel this negatively towards a school their kids do not attend.

[Anonymous]

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.

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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When my kids started at Janney in 2007 there were 250 students in the whole school --that included 6th graders!

That number sounded off to me. Because I'm super lame, I just went and counted the number of kids in my DC's 2006/7 kindergarten yearbook. There were 383 students that year with one pre-k class and two classes each of 5th and 6th grade.

Still, what are there now? A 1,000? Does it take a couple of 747s for them all just to have a field trip?