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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Glebe is less crowded than before the pandemic. The issue really impacts student:teacher ratios, but that's an issue across APS. APS tries to balance its budget by stuffing as many kids into a class with as few teachers as possible. Before the pandemic, parents could regularly be in the building, and it never felt overcrowded in the hallways. There are trailers -- the third grade is in trailers. We are in the 5th grade and the trailers were a non-issue for our child.

Homework is limited, sounds similar to Ashlawn.

My child has a 504 and the teachers and administration work with them/us.

Some of the teachers use a behavior chart in K and 1st, and I don't remember it much past those grades. Even with a child with behavioral issues, I've thought that as far as behavioral charts go, the use was okay (not great but not as bad as our older child had in a different, local district).

We've never had recess taken away and they are almost always outside for recess unless it's very, very cold. They've been eating outside bc of the pandemic.

The principal, assistant principal, and most teachers seem to be genuinely good people, which, again, differs from a previous experience we had. The atmosphere walking into the school is bright and happy.

The PTA is active. They had something for teachers today for Valentine's Day.

My one complaint would be that in the upper grades, the teachers each teach one subject only and the kids rotate. It takes a lot of executive functioning for our child to rotate from teacher to teacher. And it made virtual learning a bit difficult last year (we didn't do hybrid). But we are happy with all but like one of the teachers they have had.

My child's one complaint at this point would be that half of their friends go to Swanson for Middle and half to Dorothy Hamm. So that's something to consider.

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Similar MS issue with Ashlawn - a portion go to Swanson, while a larger number go to Kenmore.[/quote]

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