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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids go to Janney, and I would happily support increasing class sizes by 10 percent and saving those spots for at-risk students. That’s two kids per class. Does anyone seriously think that would be outrageously disruptive? Your kids can handle having a couple more friends. [/quote]
If the right supports for such kids were in place in DCPS, right,  two at-risk kids won't be a problem, not at all.  Problem is, the right supports aren't in place.  We're at a highly gentrified DCPS EotP where two at-risk kids who work a couple years behind the grade level of the others can easily eat up around a quarter of a classroom teacher's time and energy.  We've seen this happen every year in the school.   At-risk kids have a way of dragging down a group of high performers, not because anybody wants this, but because DCPS doesn't have a good system in place to help them.  You're WotP, so you don't know how this works.  What happens at our school is that high SES parents slyly form advanced tutoring groups on the side to supplement, to help ensure that our children don't fall behind you WotP'ers.[/quote]

This is why it may not seem altogether fair, but it is logical to place most of the at risk students who come WoTP at John Eaton rather than scatter them at JKLM. Then hopefully throw some more resources to Eaton.[/quote]

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