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[quote=Anonymous]11:55 here.

I think class size is the MCPS standard 25 students in K and 26 in 1st grade. One child gets the lottery in 1st grade -- or N+1 children (where N is the number who drop out after K), usually not many. As PP said, you have to test in after that, which doesn't really happen.

My child is friends with CI kids who are involved in scouts. But not friends to the point where we have these kids in our house or they hang out on the playground at recess. More like "hey neighbors" (the people you say "hey" to, but never really get super-close to). Of course, it's better to be a "hey neighbor" than a nothing.

As PP said, I doubt PYP will exist at the new school.

Will you be driving the child to school? What about after-care? (after-care options do exist for working parents... which also gives additional socialization for your child.) Or will the child be on the bus both ways? A 20-minute car ride does NOT equal 20 minutes on the bus. The MCPS bus may pick up at location 1, then go to location 2 and 3, then finally the destination school (at least this is how the busing works according to a mom of a child at Lucy Barnsley HGC). But you should try to talk to someone who's much more informed about this CI program and busing and not go on my assumptions/hearsay.

I love the school. I think it has a good community. I do think there is a divide between CI and Non-CI families, largely due to RM ES #5. I don't really care whether CI stays or goes, but I want CGES to be less over-crowded. At this point, RM ES #5 won't help my child. It seems like, from some of last year's PTA meetings, that some of the CI parents are doing CI more for the school and less for the CI program, which I think is poor logic on behalf of the parents.
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