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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I got an email on our neighborhood listserv where one parent is trying to organize other IB families who are waitlisted for PK...to do what, I'm not sure.  They want to go to the school to see if the class that had been eliminated (for space reasons) to be added back-- "for fairness." How short sighted- so fifth graders should have extra large classes so that affluent families don't have to pay for PK for another year?  [/quote]

Janney? Yes, that is short sighted.[/quote]

Or could be Brent. [/quote]

That e-mail was for Janney.  I saw that on the list serv too.[/quote]

NP here- how is it shortsighted? Not a Janney parent, but they need to prioritize the K-5 kids first, right? What's the argument for more PK?[/quote]

Yes it's shortsighted to want a PK class added so you don't have to pay for another year of preschool at the expense of reasonably sized classes for fifth graders. [/quote]

You realize all of these inbound kids are guaranteed a spot for kindergarten, right? They will be added to the school whether there's room for them or not because it's their inbound school. I don't understand shutting out pk3 and pk4 kids when they will probably wind up there in a year or two and the school will then have to accommodate the increase in class sizes.[/quote]

There are already 5 K classes, which is enough to accomodate the demand when all IB kids can come in.  The problem is literally space.  So either 5th graders are put in jumbo classes (which was an experiment that at falled) or the school can have the extra PK4 classes. Of course it would be nice if we could also have 5 PK4 classes, but that's not an option. [/quote]

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