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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You may think your name is clear but in this forum everyone is looking for a cohort to kick out bc 'crowding.' That's why the defensiveness on this from Bancroft, Shepherd, Lafayette and Ouster-Adams.

But you already knew that. [/quote]

Why is crowding in quotes? Do you have alternative facts?[/quote]

Class sizes below hte high school level are below 25 in every school. Many early grades with multiple teachers. Compare to Arlington or Montgomery where class sizes approach 30 in K or 1st, with 1 teacher.

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True that DCPS does a better job of managing the crowding and mitigating the impact on students in the classroom generally. In the end, space is finite -- the next step is crowding the classroom, which is already happening at Wilson and Janney, and we simply do not have to do that. There are options, which have been discussed.

In the mean time, there are too many students for the facilities. This has an effect on number of PE minutes and availability of other specials (art, music, etc.), lunch logistics, maintenance of the physical plant, ability to assemble as a whole school in the multipurpose space, ability of children to be on a school sports team (only 12 out of 700 get to play b-ball; Deal coaches have said they have enough kids and talent to field multiple teams per sport, but DC only lets them have one, so hundreds of kids are left out of school sports), or participate in a play or musical, and as trailers are added to allow for those manageable class sizes, outdoor space is eliminated and as city schools, the amount of physical space is limited already, as is parking, and lets talk about the stress on traffic and pedestrian safety when 10% of DCPS students (almost 5000 kids) converge on 4 of DC's largest schools each only one block/park away from the next.

Schools in the area have almost doubled in size in the last 8 years. That is rapid growth, it is straining the infrastructure, and so far DC has been reacting, not planning.[/quote]

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