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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Was this 10 kids or 50 kids?[/quote]

No idea, but they are increasing from three classrooms to four, so the guess would be 25.[/quote]

That would be my guess too. Wow. I'm the parent of CAP junior, and if I was the parent of a CAP freshman I think I would be pretty upset. This really threatens to swamp the program. If they don't add teachers, the four who teach the freshman CAP classes are going to be overwhelmed and have a lot less time to do careful grading and editing of papers. Not to mention the interdisciplinary events are going to take forever with 100 kids instead of 75.

You could make the CAP program work with 100 kids, but you have to build up the infrastructure to support it.

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I’m the parent of an incoming 9th grader and I am a bit concerned. Hopefully there won’t actually be 100 students though.  I imagine if my child had gotten in this late he would not be thrilled about the pressure to complete all of that homework during our vacation. Maybe he would’ve turned down the offer. [/quote]

We are in the same situation (9th grader, accepted).  I'm just concerned that the sudden influx will overburden the students.
The homework was not trivial, and it took my kids several weeks of working a little every day to finish it off.  Not impossible for a newly accepted kid to get it done, but it would be a ton of work every day during the last couple weeks of summer!  Sounds brutal.[/quote]

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