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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Murch is overcrowded.  Three new class sections were added this year in order to avoid having class sizes exceeding 30 students per room.  New trailers were brought onto the property and placed on the bluetop and in the staff parking.  Staff parking went from 45 parking spaces to 15.  Arrangements are still being made to find parking in the neighborhood for the staff.

The Murch property is one small block with no room to expand into additional parcels.  Part of that block is actually National Park Service land and so building on it may be problematic.  Expanding beyond the current footprint would necessarily take away staff parking and/or playground space.  So, more students, more staff, less parking and smaller playground.

Murch is overcrowded.[/quote]

But why? Why continue to admit so many oob students? It seems to defy logic for a school to accept more students (that don't have a "right" to attend) than there is space for.

This is not an argument to keep out oob kids. It's a logic argument. People complain about the trailers but they are not there because of an overcrowding of IB students. [/quote]

Murch doesn't have many OOB students which were admitted from lottery. Many are bussed in under the old regime. In addition they have an autistic classroom which is city wide. As has been stated before here the 66% number on the DCPS website was wrong all last year. The current number us up around 90% IB. The additional 5th grade class is because of IB students sticking around for Deal. They aren't taking kids off the lottery to fill seats even in 5th grade. [/quote]

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