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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think there are two main reasons why people overpay for a house in
AU Park. It is not necessarily that they think that Janney is better than Stoddert, Murch, Mann, etc.
Rather it is that Janney feeds into Deal and also that there is a very convenient metro stop in the neighborhood.
For many parents working downtown, it is convenient to drop the kid off at school and then walk right to the metro.
Same on the way back. AU Park also has a suburban feel, almost like an extension of Bethesda, which is appealing to many folks.
By the way, I have a 3rd grader at Janney and his classes have always ranged from 19-22 since Kindergarten. I would caution people not to assume that large is equivalent to overcrowded classes.[/quote]

And the K classes at Hearst this year have 24 per class. Hearst parents -- stop promoting Hearst on DCUM or the class sizes will soon approach 30 like in some Janney classes! Keep your satisfaction to yourself and keep Hearst small! [/quote]

OMG- can these Hearst posters stop with the "let's keep our precious school a secret from everyone?" I swear this is on every one of these threads.  [/quote]

Hearst likely will get larger, fast.  As neighborhood enrollment climbs, the logical thing for DCPS to do will be to ratchet back OOB student seats.  But DCPS is unlikely to do that, or at least it is unlikely to do it much, because there are settled expectations and excess demand for places in schools west of Rock Creek Park.  Hearst is one of the few schools that has reliably had a lot of OOB places and it will be politically unpopular for the mayor and chancellor to change that too much.[/quote]

The IB parents are tracking this closely and in regular contact with principal.  Trust me [/quote]

These large class sizes are not due to new OOB kids. People are moving to the neighborhood to attend Hearst, and even just a handful of new students each year can affect class size dramatically when you have only two classes per grade. 
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Right.  But do DCPS and the admin have the, uh, guts to manage OOB slots down aggressively, as students graduate to middle school?  Or will they simply acquiesce to long standing expectations and likely political pressure from EOTP residents that Hearst continue to be substantially available to their neighborhoods?  [/quote]

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