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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How? Just to name a few...art on a cart, instead of an actual art room, the art teacher brings the art supplies to the classroom. Doubt this happens at non center schools. Music is also in the classroom or in a hallway classroom, that is a hallway that now has cubicles that function as walls, lunch at 10am or lunch at 2pm. When chaperoning, you may be asked to provide your own way to the destination due to the number of students, chaperones and seats on a bus. Now, does your school, your non center school have any of these wonderful attributes? No, of course not, but you send about 100 students to a center school and your non center kids benefit with an actual art class, a real music room, a decent lunch time,  and ample time for recess. Did I mention how crowded the already too small playground is? Yes, the playground was built for say 500 kids, not the 800 or 900 or more that are currently students. Please, just acknowledge that the non center schools are the winners in all of this. And stop asking such dumb questions.[/quote]

I'd avoid attempting to pit center vs. non-center schools as there are several schools in the Eastern part of the county with this exact same set up (and some things are worse at some of these schools than what you describe). And this won't help you make friends in these discussion either - folks who can stand up with you across the county and support the overall adjustment of the overcrowded schools - AAP or not. This shouldn't be an us vs. them mentality or approach, and you should strive to avoid the divisiveness that your comments are creating. If we work together we can pressure the district to do more about the overcrowding in general.  I am speaking as a parent of a child at a very overcrowded non-AAP school, and a MS student that is denied center services because we choose to keep her at her base school instead of busing her to an already overcrowded center MS. [/quote]

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