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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Exactly what change in student demographics are posters referring to?[/quote]

There hasn’t been any.[/quote]

My kids are past the elementary stage, so I have a longer view on the demographics. They are changing. Original owners (primarily in Tanterra and the sliver of Olney mill that feeds into the school) who hung onto houses for a long time kept classroom size very low for many years. Then as houses started to sell, the school numbers started to tick up. Another poster spoke of class size being too big. My older kids had 20 or less in their classrooms for many years. Since anyone can follow the year at a glance stats, you can see the demographic shift.

People who have lived in Olney/Brookeville for decades/generations are talking about the shift. Crime is up. [/quote]

Agreed, demographics are something that needs to be measured over the long run, whereas the OP is referencing changes in the past couple years, so it doesn’t make sense to apply a demographics argument at least in respond to OPs original assertions — which at any rate have not been my own family’s experience, our children have had an excellent experience at Greenwood and we’re so thankful for the dedicated teachers and staff. We feel lucky to be at such a wonderful school.

If you want to discuss the demographic changes at Greenwood over the last decade or so, these neighborhoods had a lot of folks from an older generation whose children have grown, so now there is turnover in the housing stock and families with children are moving in. This is all normal and I don’t see how you would link this to crime in these neighborhoods. If there is crime like car thefts etc it’s coming from outside. So the numbers of students at Greenwood are increasing, and this would be a central office issue I’m not giving Greenwood enough teachers to match the growing class sizes. How is this Greenwood’s fault?[/quote]

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