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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sending the middle schoolers at Adams to MacFarland and the middle schoolers at Francis Stevens to Cardozo would open up probably 15 more classrooms WOTP that could be used for PK, and better utilize the under-enrolled schools.

Moving art instruction in-house at the schools currently served by Fillmore would allow several more classrooms there.

Wards 2 and 3 just need to decide which they prefer and start lobbying for whatever they decide. Parents of 1 and 2 year olds would like there to be 20 more PK classrooms near them, and it can be done with minimal capital investment. Parents of older kids like Fillmore and their current assigned middle and high school. And the parents of older kids are easier to organize because they can work through existing PTAs and they aren't exhausted by taking care of babies. [b]So it's a hard fight for the parents of younger kids to win. [/b]But it could easily be done if there were the will among constituents. [/quote]

This is a dumb argument - Maybe when your kids are babies you think a year's worth of preschool is a big deal, but trust me that once your kids are actually in the school you will see that overcrowding, no lunch rooms, 27 kids in a class, no available seats in key high school classes, eating lunch at 10 a.m., overworked school counselors, classes too big for a teacher to adequately give written feedback, etc. etc. is a far far bigger deal. You want free PK3? It's all yours if you are willing to drive a couple of miles.  Save your advocacy energy for the bigger challenges to come.[/quote]

If you want K-12 with smaller class sizes, and overall enrollments, and lunch rooms, it's all yours if you are willing to drive a couple of miles too. Or WOTP families could start pushing for a redistricting process where school enrollments could better match school capacities. At this point, though, families seems to prefer having a right to overcrowded schools to having a right to other DCPS schools with lots more room.

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