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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm curious which option current WJ Cluster families prefer: A, B, C or D.

To me, B appears the best outcome.[/quote]

WJ cluster is going to see some serious staffing cuts when a good portion of their school moves to Woodward.[/quote]

Well yeah, that's the main reason they opened Woodward.[/quote]

Yes, but when that happens, staffing will be cut which means classes will be cut.[/quote]

Because they don't need as many staff members if there are fewer students![/quote]

For schools like WJ with relatively low FARMS rates this will be fine. It's the high FARMS schools that have trouble offering certain courses as it is that will struggle with lower enrollment, especially when half the high achieving cohort signs up for programs in low FARMS schools.[/quote]

Will it be fine?  There will be some serious cuts.  [/quote]

I mean they might lose a few of their least popular elective, but generally, yes, they will be fine.  A lot of the cuts just amount to there being half as many staff left to teach all the basic core courses, but there will also be half as many students taking them so it works out fine.

The real classes at risk there or anywhere, are classes where there aren't that many kids taking them to start with.  At schools like Einstein this may include some higher level academic classes, but I doubt that's the case at WJ.  Both they and poorer schools facing cuts will instead be more likely to lose electives (and possibly certain foreign language classes, if there were ones with lower numbers of kids to start with.). If they previously barely filled a class for an elective, it's probably gone with the cuts.[/quote]

They are basically taking what 1/4 or more of the students out.  That will be more than a few electives and classes.[/quote]

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