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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's crazy is that the prior principal added a PK classroom last year ('14-15) rather than look ahead to what the current 3rd grade class would look like.

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I'm guessing because the current Janney parents with rising PreKers were a bug in her ear...the added class was filled almost exclusively with siblings of current IB students. As much as people liked that principal, she showed she could be brow beaten into making a decision that was bad for the school and created additional problems down the road.[/quote]

My understanding was that what drove the addition of the fourth prek in part was the desire to have pre k students that were not sibling preference to diversify the families in pre k so it was not exclusionary to new families.  If you think that the previous principal was browbeaten into adding pre k by the parents I would love to understand your reasoning. Are you a parent who witnessed her caving to parent's whims willy nilly?  My observations were that she was direct, had vision and did great things at the school, and that the parents who appreciated her actually appreciated the fact that she was not browbeaten into anything.

I also did NOT understand principal Lutz to be saying that everything was hunky dory with class size and they had decided to not change a thing.  There were no decisions announced but she clearly referenced that they were considering space for additional classrooms.  I support giving her the opportunity to come up with a plan rather than second guessing her before having heard it by thinking that I know best despite limited information.

I try not to read Janney threads but they become like car wrecks where you cannot look away.  [/quote]

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