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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would not bother unless you are just looking for babysitting. PK especially has been overcrowded. It is supposed to be a 1:2 ratio. 6 kids and 1 teacher, with 2 assistants. They are getting 8,9,10,11 students.

If you think this makes no difference you are mistaken. Whittier? Ha. Ask them how long they have retained their PK CES teacher. Ask Stevens. 
Ask if they have 2 paras and if the class is overcrowded.

It does not matter if the teacher is magic. Once they get to 8 kids it’s babysitting, unless it’s a magical year and you don’t have a students who elopes, hits, screams, refuses to sit for 3 min, etc.

ELS is often worse, more students and they put students who should be in CES in there too. ELS and CES are not interchangeable. The fact that you stated both means either you think they’re similar or Early Stages is lying to parents as usual.

I’d ask Whittier and Stevens how they plan to support the classroom when it becomes over capacity.[/quote]

The class size probably varies wildly depending on year. When I was at Whittier (granted it was a few years ago) there were only 4 students in the CES with 2 paras for pre-k 3/4. Lower elementary was higher, but it definitely wasn't 10+ kids. And all the classrooms had 2 paras.  [/quote]

Some schools start with 2 kids, it never ends up that way by March. They start primarily sending kids who live in SE. If Whittier has 4 kids all year then the program is bad and kids were being pulled out by parents.

There is no PK CES program that has 4 kids all school year. At least now because like I said they will send kids whose closet program is full, some parents will send their kid on that bus ride for the free childcare and/or the promise of a ‘quality.’ education.[/quote]

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