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[quote=Anonymous]12:32 again.  Sorry if I created confusion with my example of 400 students in a Deal 7th grade class.

In my made-up example, I was using 400 students in the 7th grade class as an expected number with "right-sized" enrollment at Deal (i.e., 400 students in each of 3 grades for 1200 students total).  In that perfect-world hypothetical, I don't see a problem with Deal going to the waitlist to replace students who drop out of the class.

If we're changing my hypothetical to something closer to the current real-world situation at Deal (i.e., overcrowded), then I would say that Deal should NOT replace the students who drop out.  So for example, let's instead assume Deal is expecting 450 7th graders, and that's 50 more than Deal's capacity projections allow for 7th grade.  If 50 of those rising 7th graders decide to leave Deal for private or MoCo over the summer, there's still no extra capacity, so Deal shouldn't add any replacement students.

I guess PP's point though was that Deal's principal and DCPS will be stuck in a pickle though, because they will have put resources in place for 450 students, even though only 400 are showing up.  To that problem, I'd offer two suggestions:

(1) Deal predict how many students it will lose over the summer, and plan accordingly.  I assume that has happened every year for the past couple decades, so I'd guess it's a pretty predictable number of students.  Deal can assume that attrition when it plans resources for the coming school year.

(2) Deal can phase the attrition cuts into place.  For example, if Deal currently expects a class of 450, but also expects to lose 50 students over the summer, then it can put resources in place for just 425.  Whatever number of students it loses (50, 40, 30), it will replace only up to the 425 number where it has resources in place.  In year 2, Deal can do the same thing to reduce from 425 to 400.[/quote]

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