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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How did this post go from congratulating a principal for a well-deserved honor to arguing about how many students attend the school?[/quote]

I suspect it’s because of a lot of people who have kindergartners this year haven’t been so thrilled, and it’s directly related to the class sizes.

Some people on this forum are saying that the school has 400 kindergarteners and others are arguing that the class has 160 kindergarteners and is smaller than usual. Neither is correct, and people are sighting “at a glance” information that is from 2022 as fact about the current situation.

The reality is that the school has nearly 250 kindergarteners. This is large — MUCH larger than most MCPS elementary schools. It was also a huge surprise to TPES as the school was not expecting so many kids to enroll at the last minute and was woefully unprepared to deal with this many children at the start of this school year. Dr Gadsden handled this as well as could possibly be expected. The pandemic was hard on TPES (and all schools), then TPES lost its “focus school” status in 2022, making class sizes larger. Then this year they had this massive/unexpected influx in kindergartners, pushing class sizes even larger. The teachers are barely hanging on.

It’s been a hard few years for the school, and Dr Gadsden has done an incredible job with a bunch of crappy circumstances that we’re out of her control. She’s a fantastic leader. [/quote]

+1 [/quote]

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