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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OK, great, so how that work?  The parents of the oldest kids have been shut out en masse are in K this year.   I'm stating the obvious in noting that this is not a group of politically powerful parents within the school community.  It's going to take two or three years before some of the shut-out parents move into leadership positions on the LSAT, PTA Board etc.  I know of only one shut-out parent on either body.  The ambitious principal won't stay forever.  Perhaps when he goes, a new generation of parent leaders will work to change this calculus.  But I can't see it happening until the current K kids are in 2nd or 3rd grade.

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Neither the LSAT, which is purely advisory and focuses principally on budgetary issues, not the PTA have any real leverage when it comes to making changes to the structure of the ECE program.  They're not a board of trustees for a private school.  The principal deferred to the wishes of the early childhood teachers and has nothing to gain by going downtown hat-in-hand asking to reshuffle the deck just a few years after getting a waiver for the mixed-age classes.  Central Office just isn't going to be all that concerned about 20 or 30 unhappy Brent families in the scheme of things, especially if most families continue to bail for charters and other options for middle school.  The only change that I could envision is if there ever is a need for a second 5th Grade classroom somewhere down the road (more than 30 kids) buts it's also possible that Brent could see a Phase 2 renovation by that distant date or, more likely, the boundaries would be changed to peel off some families to LT, Tyler or the Cluster.  The Hine development may tip the balance in this regard.  [/quote]

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