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[quote=Anonymous][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]

It's not shortsighted, because there is no long-term benefit for the incoming (or shut out) PK kids to give up a PK class to allow for smaller fifth grade classes next year. The only ones who benefit are the rising fifth graders. So it's maybe selfish, but no more selfish than the upper elementary parents pushing for cutting PK to benefit their kids. [/quote]

The parents of IB PK4 kids who were shut out will eventually become parents of fifth graders at the school...who will NOT be happy when their kids are in a 35 person class.  I say this as someone with a kid at the school (who was shut out for PK4) and whose younger child is not yet at the school (so would potentially be adversely affected with the reduction in PK4 classes).  I would prefer to pay for an extra year of preschool so that my older child can have a reasonably-sized class in the critical ES years.[/quote]

The point of the post was that cutting a PK class now has no bearing on the size of 5th grade years from now. They may have cut all of PK (and I hope they will if it's necessary) by then, and still have fifth grade classes with 35 kids.[/quote]

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