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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, how long have you had children at Brent?  If you talk to old timers, who've had at least one child in the school for many years, they'll tell you that Brent is becoming a victim of its own success. The building was designed to accommodate roughly 2/3 of the kids stuffed in there.  Ditching PreS3 wouldn't help much, or for very long. Yet DCPS currently has no plans to renovate Brent. Principal L and parent leaders are expected to lobby like mad to for the funds to renovate to expand capacity, presumably for years to come.

The K and 1st grade classes, large cohorts, are almost entirely [b]in-boundary kids plus OOB with siblings[/b].  Yet DCPS isn't in Brent's corner, or on the side of any elementary school mainly serving kids from UMC families in a system where more than 2/3 of students are FARMs.  At this rate, Brent's enrollment will likely start to drop as crowding and large class sizes become the new norm.

DCPS is one of the country's lowest-performing urban school systems for many reasons, which sucks.[/quote]

The Principal did the same thing to Janney - it increased under her tenure as she let everyone stay.   The school was at capacity - but she would make space for an child who moved OOB sibling.  She gets things done - but at what cost. [/quote]

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