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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Outrage was erased when people fought meaningful boundary changes. You can only squeeze so many kids into a building.[/quote]

The boundary changes that would have impacted Janney were not substantial enough to make a dent in the current situation--those proposed changes would have impacted only a handful of families.  This is a much larger problem.  [/quote]

so what on earth do you propose? and i will never understand this constant assertion that moving 20-40 kids from a school (constantly made about Deal) doesn't help. they need to do something instead of nothing. can the school get any bigger?[/quote]

First, they need to acknowledge that there is a problem.  I don't know what all of the possible solutions are, but there can't be any creative brainstorming until the school admits that there is a problem.  The school also needs to keep only out-of-boundary students who come in through the out-of-boundary process; instead, if someone rents in the neighborhood for a year (or less) and then moves out, they are inexplicably grandfathered in.  I have no problem with out-of-boundary students in the school who are there because they legitimately gone through whatever process is in place for out-of-boundary students--but this backdoor way into the school is totally unacceptable.  The school may need to shrink it's pre-K program back down to 2 or 3 classes, if means having reasonable sized classes for K and 1st graders--there's no entitled to pre-K and just about anyone who is attending Janney's pre-K (all in boundary kids) can afford private pre-school.  Those are just a few ideas--and I'm sure if we had some real discussions about this others would be able to come up even better ideas.  They also need to something for those poor specials teachers--each of whom (with the exception of science) has to teach all 700+ kids over the course of the year.   [/quote]

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